I was going shopping tonite. My wife, my son Charlie, my daughter Natalie, and I were all in the store together.<\/p>\n
The kids were a little bit hyper, and this was being magnified as it bounced back and forth between them, like an echo chamber.<\/p>\n
Natalie’s birthday is coming up, and so we were getting cupcakes for a little party in her class.<\/p>\n
Our already hyper 9 year old ran, grabbed the cupcakes, and put them in the shopping cart.<\/p>\n
Then she grabbed the cupcakes, and ran back and put them back, to see if she could find something better.<\/p>\n
She eventually ended up back at the cart, empty handed.<\/p>\n
When reminded that we needed something for her party, she headed off at a sprint, back to the cupcakes.<\/p>\n
I turned to my wife, and said, she reminds me of a hummingbird on crystal meth<\/span>.<\/p>\n Sometimes, kids are exhausting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was going shopping tonite. My wife, my son Charlie, my daughter Natalie, and I were all in the store together. The kids were a little bit hyper, and this was being magnified as it bounced back and forth between them, like an echo chamber. Natalie’s birthday is coming up, and so we were getting …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}