{"id":7670,"date":"2011-08-12T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T12:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2011-12-15T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T05:20:00","slug":"365-days-of-bliss-a-week-without-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/365-days-of-bliss-a-week-without-children\/","title":{"rendered":"365 Days of Bliss – A Week without Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

TGIF! It’s Stephanie here bringing you this Friday’s post.<\/p>\n

This past week marked the start of a new tradition in our household. A week Up North with Gramma & Pappa. Just the kids (my girls and my nephew). No PARENTS ALLOWED.<\/p>\n

When the girls left last Friday morning – there was a Bittersweet feeling in my heart. I was happy to see them go and glad for the break, but I miss them so much it hurts.<\/p>\n

This bittersweet feeling still lingers and probably will not subside until I see my girls and give them a big hug and kiss.<\/p>\n

It’s like a piece of my heart is missing.\u00a0 Not ripped out or anything, just missing.<\/p>\n

I do have to say that my husband & I have enjoyed our break without the girls. We did adult things – we toured a winery. We headed to the State Fair. We went and saw Horrible Bosses. We ate cheese for dinner and sometimes skipped meals altogether. There was a total lack of responsibility on our parts. We could do what we wanted, when we wanted.I even scrapped a page of our Date week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I am sure the girls had a great time. For them – Up North is like the Wild West! ESPECIALLY with Gramma & Pappa. Trips to the candy store, bike rides, swimming, jumping, frogging, exploring and just being kids. I can only imagine when the last time they took a bath or brushed their teeth let alone drank a glass of milk or ate a piece of fruit.<\/p>\n

Gosh I miss them!<\/p>\n

I’m off to call the girls. To see when they are heading home. Do you think balloons and a banner is a bit much with welcoming them home?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TGIF! It’s Stephanie here bringing you this Friday’s post. This past week marked the start of a new tradition in our household. A week Up North with Gramma & Pappa. Just the kids (my girls and my nephew). No PARENTS ALLOWED. When the girls left last Friday morning – there was a Bittersweet feeling in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9894,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions\/9894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}