{"id":1030,"date":"2006-05-08T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2006-05-23T18:20:18","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T01:20:18","slug":"and-i-was-cursed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"and I was cursed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/56\/142519633_012fd938c1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shaun and I keep looking at each other and shaking our heads with this look of, &#8220;Was sex really worth all these kids?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday my heart broke. It was mended with sister\/mom\/shaun love and some good hair bleach on Saturday.  On Sunday my heart rested.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday my heart is angry.  ONE TIME. I want to tell those little heathens ONE time to do something and then I want them to JUMP TO IT&#8230;and do it with a damn smile on their faces&#8230;and get it done QUICKLY.<\/p>\n<p>No such luck.  It&#8217;s my mother&#8217;s curse.  She has passed this on to me&#8230;and I will pass it on to each of my children.  They will know they have been given the curse when they call me one night after getting into a fight with their 9 year old over what flavor of cereal they will eat and I WILL LAUGH.  I will laugh like my mother has laughed.<br \/>\nThen I will suggest that they send my sweet grandchild to my house for a few hours so they can &#8216;have a break&#8217;&#8230;and I will rush out and buy that special cereal and when my daughter mistakenly pulls out of the driveway for her &#8216;little break&#8217;, I will do the same thing my mother surely did to my children&#8230;I will tell them that grandma loves them no matter what and that that child can do no wrong.  I will juke that baby up on sugar and kisses. Then my sweet grandchild will love me so very much and I can kick back and laugh at my daughter when she calls me again and again to complain about how HER DAUGHTER WON&#8217;T CLEAN HER DAMN ROOM!<br \/>\nThese little thoughts are the only things that get me through days like this one.<br \/>\nSweet revenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun and I keep looking at each other and shaking our heads with this look of, &#8220;Was sex really worth all these kids?&#8221; On Friday my heart broke. It was mended with sister\/mom\/shaun love and some good hair bleach on Saturday. On Sunday my heart rested. On Monday my heart is angry. ONE TIME. I want to tell those little heathens ONE time to do something and then I want them to JUMP TO IT&#8230;and do it with a damn smile on their faces&#8230;and get it done QUICKLY. No such luck. It&#8217;s my mother&#8217;s curse. She has passed this on to me&#8230;and I will pass it on to each of my children. They will know they have been given the curse when they call me one night after getting into a fight with their 9 year old over what flavor of cereal they will eat and I WILL LAUGH. I will laugh like my mother has laughed. Then I will suggest that they send my sweet grandchild to my house for a few hours so they can &#8216;have a break&#8217;&#8230;and I will rush out and buy that special cereal and when my daughter mistakenly pulls out of the driveway for her &#8216;little break&#8217;, I will do the same thing my mother surely did to my children&#8230;I will tell them that grandma loves them no matter what and that that child can do no wrong. I will juke that baby up on sugar and kisses. Then my sweet grandchild will love me so very much and I can kick back and laugh at my daughter when she calls me again and again to complain about how HER DAUGHTER WON&#8217;T CLEAN HER DAMN ROOM! These little thoughts are the only things that get me through days like this one. Sweet revenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}