{"id":282,"date":"2019-05-13T03:29:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2019-05-13T03:29:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T03:29:18","slug":"happy-mothers-day-to-all-moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/13\/happy-mothers-day-to-all-moms\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mothers Day to All Moms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Mothers Day, I reflect on\nall things that have changed since becoming a mother ago 7 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A big  night out is now happy hour, staying out past 9, or even walking to a neighbors      house. <\/li><li>I used   to love Dateline and murder mysteries. Now, when there are children involved,   I can\u2019t even watch. <\/li><li>When  moms or dads die (or really anything sad happens- Mustafa dying anyone?)      in movies with kids or apparently animals, I cry. A lot.<\/li><li>Parents   Night Out at our local daycare\/ gymnastics place.. Pre-mom or even first time  mom me would turn my nose up at choosing to send my kids back to daycare      for a 6<sup>th<\/sup> day. But it literally is cheaper than a sitter and      also like an extended playdate that I don\u2019t have to attend. Then comes the      dilemma of dinner date night out, nap\/Netflix for three hours, or running errands. Yep, life has changed,      friends.<\/li><li>How  much fuller, rich, and even simple life is when you experience it though      the eyes of a child again, especially on your most cynical and worst days.      Some of our best memories so far are simple days at the beach, playing      games, or just laughing and enjoying time together as a family.<\/li><li>Perspective  and thankfulness for my own mom and aunts. All of my mom figures worked,  cooked, kept clean homes, entertain on a whim and sometimes even sewed  clothes sans cleaning ladies, uber eats, curbside, Instacart or amazon or      complaining). They really are superhuman. Today, all of them will watch      any of my kids on a moments notice without blinking, no instructions required.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Motherhood is\nhard work. Harder than my hardest days sometimes, but it is worth it every day\nand I\u2019m so grateful to get to experience it times three. To all moms out there,\nI see you and you\u2019re doing great. And if you\u2019re not, hang in there and don\u2019t be\nafraid to ask for help. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Mothers Day, I reflect on all things that have changed since becoming a mother ago 7 years ago. A big night out is now happy hour, staying out past 9, or even walking to a neighbors house. I used to love Dateline and murder mysteries. Now, when there are children involved, I can\u2019t even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/13\/happy-mothers-day-to-all-moms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Mothers Day to All Moms&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/modernbossmama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download.png?fit=201%2C251&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernbossmama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}