{"id":1448,"date":"2007-07-14T23:37:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T06:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2007-07-14T23:37:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T06:37:07","slug":"every-fiber-in-my-being-is-wore-the-hell-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"Every fiber in my being is wore the hell out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1391\/815619668_c84881c9f9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not old. I know I&#8217;m all braggin&#8217; about having me TWO grand babies and how grandma&#8217;s have super powers.\u00a0 Hooooly Sheet, I take that back. I take it ALL back.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun had Pappy duty last night because I was the designated driver (show me some love) for Jennifer (my step-step daughter) her mom, Tabitha (we remember Tabitha right?) and Tabitha&#8217;s sister, Heather.\u00a0 We decided to party on the go. We hit 5 bars in 5 hours. Now, finding a bar in the yup ass town I live in was quite a job.\u00a0 Jen mentioned wanting to dance and I remembered this awesome dance club I use to go to when I remembered how to dance.\u00a0 Pulling into the parking lot of a closed down night club was the height of my &#8216;oh shit, I AM OLD&#8217; stage.<br \/>\n&#8220;I swear this place was open! I mean&#8230;I was here on New Years when it turned 1999!&#8221;\u00a0 And that was it. That was the last time I had been &#8216;clubbing&#8217;.\u00a0 1999.<\/p>\n<p>After returning home to Jeremiah and Ariana curled up on the bed with Shaun, which by the way is the image I will have in my head as one of the top ten moments of realizing how much I truly love the man I married, I was introduced back into the world of taking care of two &#8216;babies&#8217;.\u00a0 They are nearly the exact same age as Shea and Alyx were together as babies.\u00a0 I looked at Jeremiah and thought of Alyx. I remembered how much guilt I had that i was robbing her of not getting to be the &#8216;baby&#8217;.\u00a0 I looked at Ariana and thought of how Shea was <strong>just<\/strong> that tiny and now&#8230;she wants to be Hannah Montana.<br \/>\nTHEN, after a enormous attempt of trying to get comfortable on my bed with TWO bed hogs and a sleeping baby on my chest, I decided to sleep on the floor.\u00a0 It took me about a half hour of sleeping on the floor with a baby on my chest to realize that I am too old for that. I moved to the chair and tried to sleep there, with a baby on my chest.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:00 AM, Tabitha came to claim her little man.<\/p>\n<p>At 8:30 AM, I finally caved in and had to wake up Jennifer to have her take her so I could sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Shaun and said, &#8220;How the hell did I do it?\u00a0 How did I have two babies back to back like that and be able to take care of them without killing myself?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered, &#8216;Oh yea, I lost my mind.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I do believe that God put the babies in my path this weekend. It was to remind me how strong of a woman I am. I do have limits. I do not have super Grandma powers.\u00a0 I need to set limits to what I can and I can not do without help, sleep, and more water.\u00a0 He also allowed me to see in pictures from Jennifer&#8217;s 21&#8217;st birthday that I look HORRIBLE when I let my hair go this long without getting it done.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s almost midnight and I have to read up on L-CHAD because Ariana&#8217;s test results came back positive. Please pray for her, for Jennifer and for her husband who is stationed in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend everyone.\u00a0 Friendly advice; DO NOT try staying awake for 24 solid hours to prove you&#8217;re superhuman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not old. I know I&#8217;m all braggin&#8217; about having me TWO grand babies and how grandma&#8217;s have super powers.\u00a0 Hooooly Sheet, I take that back. I take it ALL back. Shaun had Pappy duty last night because I was the designated driver (show me some love) for Jennifer (my step-step daughter) her mom, Tabitha (we remember Tabitha right?) and Tabitha&#8217;s sister, Heather.\u00a0 We decided to party on the go. We hit 5 bars in 5 hours. Now, finding a bar in the yup ass town I live in was quite a job.\u00a0 Jen mentioned wanting to dance and I remembered this awesome dance club I use to go to when I remembered how to dance.\u00a0 Pulling into the parking lot of a closed down night club was the height of my &#8216;oh shit, I AM OLD&#8217; stage. &#8220;I swear this place was open! I mean&#8230;I was here on New Years when it turned 1999!&#8221;\u00a0 And that was it. That was the last time I had been &#8216;clubbing&#8217;.\u00a0 1999. After returning home to Jeremiah and Ariana curled up on the bed with Shaun, which by the way is the image I will have in my head as one of the top ten moments of realizing how much I truly love the man I married, I was introduced back into the world of taking care of two &#8216;babies&#8217;.\u00a0 They are nearly the exact same age as Shea and Alyx were together as babies.\u00a0 I looked at Jeremiah and thought of Alyx. I remembered how much guilt I had that i was robbing her of not getting to be the &#8216;baby&#8217;.\u00a0 I looked at Ariana and thought of how Shea was just that tiny and now&#8230;she wants to be Hannah Montana. THEN, after a enormous attempt of trying to get comfortable on my bed with TWO bed hogs and a sleeping baby on my chest, I decided to sleep on the floor.\u00a0 It took me about a half hour of sleeping on the floor with a baby on my chest to realize that I am too old for that. I moved to the chair and tried to sleep there, with a baby on my chest. At 7:00 AM, Tabitha came to claim her little man. At 8:30 AM, I finally caved in and had to wake up Jennifer to have her take her so I could sleep. I looked at Shaun and said, &#8220;How the hell did I do it?\u00a0 How did I have two babies back to back like that and be able to take care of them without killing myself?&#8221; Then I remembered, &#8216;Oh yea, I lost my mind.&#8217; I do believe that God put the babies in my path this weekend. It was to remind me how strong of a woman I am. I do have limits. I do not have super Grandma powers.\u00a0 I need to set limits to what I can and I can not do without help, sleep, and more water.\u00a0 He also allowed me to see in pictures from Jennifer&#8217;s 21&#8217;st birthday that I look HORRIBLE when I let my hair go this long without getting it done. Now, it&#8217;s almost midnight and I have to read up on L-CHAD because Ariana&#8217;s test results came back positive. Please pray for her, for Jennifer and for her husband who is stationed in Korea. Have a great weekend everyone.\u00a0 Friendly advice; DO NOT try staying awake for 24 solid hours to prove you&#8217;re superhuman.<\/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-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","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=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}