{"id":3944,"date":"2011-12-28T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2011-12-28T11:32:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:32:28","slug":"its-finally-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/28\/its-finally-over\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s finally over."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/6583334759\/\" title=\"357.365: the last by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7149\/6583334759_22a6424128.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"500\" alt=\"357.365: the last\" style=\"border:0px !important;\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I never really want it to be over until it&#8217;s 8pm and we&#8217;ve been going-going-going for 2 days straight and I finally feel like I&#8217;ll explode with sugar and happiness. It sounds like it&#8217;d be sweet, but&#8230;no. If I exploded, it&#8217;d be horrible. And so we shuttle home and transfer children from car to bed and then collapse on the couch. I sleep for <b>12 hours<\/b> and the next day, we do NOTHING. No cleaning, no sorting, no nothing. And then I REALLY want it to be over.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, my mom took my boys for a few hours and I was able to take down the tree and pull down some decorations. They&#8217;re all sitting in a box on my living room floor. I want so desperately to be able to do things completely, but I struggle with it. I get distracted easily. I used to have discipline, but it lost its way. Maybe it doesn&#8217;t really matter, but sometimes I think it would be nice.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/6585182955\/\" title=\"361.365: self portrait in an ornament by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7147\/6585182955_e4b4dfcbc7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" alt=\"361.365: self portrait in an ornament\"><\/a><BR><i>taken with my new camera!<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s over. I&#8217;ll miss the ornaments and glitter, but I am really glad things can go back to normal. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"+1\">How are you? Did Christmas wipe you out? Have you recovered?<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7149\/6583334759_22a6424128.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"500\" alt=\"357.365: the last\" style=\"border:0px !important;\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I never really want it to be over until it&#8217;s 8pm and we&#8217;ve been going-going-going for 2 days straight and I finally feel like I&#8217;ll explode with sugar and happiness. It sounds like it&#8217;d be sweet, but&#8230;no. If I exploded, it&#8217;d be horrible. And so we shuttle home and transfer children from car to bed and then collapse on the couch. I sleep for [Read More&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,42],"tags":[53,238,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}