{"id":823,"date":"2005-12-20T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2006-04-05T13:20:46","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T20:20:46","slug":"113512163553999059","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"113512163553999059"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have done one of the meanest things a parent can do to a child, outside of running over their cat. Which I may or may not have done during my college days.<\/p>\n

I numbered the Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n

Yes. I know. MEAN HUH? (this is where you hear me laughing like an evil loon)<\/p>\n

The girls came home from their dads and there is a pile of gifts under the tree.
\n“YAY, GIFTS!!” They run towards the tree and pick up the multi colored boxes.
\n“Mom? Who’s #4?”
\n“You’ll find out on Christmas….unless…you can figure it out on your own.<\/p>\n

Oh the whining…Complaining…and then the “I’ll figure it out first!” threats.<\/p>\n

Everyday after school, Alyx has been setting aside a little time to figuring it out. She asks me very simple questions in hopes of finding out what the answer is.
\nToday, after what sounded like a simple question, her eyes brightened and she rushed into the house.
\nShe had been asking one or two questions a day. Well, all those questions added up to the answer she was waiting for.<\/p>\n

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“Mommy, if I get the answer right and show you how I got it, will you tell me if I’m right?”
\nI made her promise that if she did get it she wouldn’t tell the other kids how she got the answer. She promised.<\/p>\n

Then she brought me the right answer.<\/p>\n

I told her that if anyone else figured it out because of her notes that I would take her presents away.<\/p>\n

She took a pair of scissors and cut up the paper in a million pieces.<\/p>\n

At this moment she is sitting in the living room laughing like a evil loon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have done one of the meanest things a parent can do to a child, outside of running over their cat. Which I may or may not have done during my college days. I numbered the Christmas gifts. Yes. I know. MEAN HUH? (this is where you hear me laughing like an evil loon) The girls came home from their dads and there is a pile of gifts under the tree. “YAY, GIFTS!!” They run towards the tree and pick up the multi colored boxes. “Mom? Who’s #4?” “You’ll find out on Christmas….unless…you can figure it out on your own. Oh the whining…Complaining…and then the “I’ll figure it out first!” threats. Everyday after school, Alyx has been setting aside a little time to figuring it out. She asks me very simple questions in hopes of finding out what the answer is. Today, after what sounded like a simple question, her eyes brightened and she rushed into the house. She had been asking one or two questions a day. Well, all those questions added up to the answer she was waiting for. “Mommy, if I get the answer right and show you how I got it, will you tell me if I’m right?” I made her promise that if she did get it she wouldn’t tell the other kids how she got the answer. She promised. Then she brought me the right answer. I told her that if anyone else figured it out because of her notes that I would take her presents away. She took a pair of scissors and cut up the paper in a million pieces. At this moment she is sitting in the living room laughing like a evil loon.<\/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-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}