{"id":78,"date":"2015-09-02T22:30:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T02:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=78"},"modified":"2015-09-02T22:30:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T02:30:14","slug":"26-grown-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"26. Grown Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I represented the library at a Back to School Fair at a middle school.<\/p>\n<p>And while I really enjoyed the middle school kids with their excitement and energy, and while I really enjoyed my own kids when they were in middle school &#8212; I was struck by how glad I am that I am no longer the Mom of middle school or high school kids!<\/p>\n<p>This is a nice realization &#8212; lately, with my youngest starting his very last semester of college, I&#8217;ve had a little trouble with the Empty Nest Blues.<\/p>\n<p>But I was reminded of all the stress of middle school &#8212; meeting all the various teachers, buying supplies, this, that, and the other detail to worry about&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I got through it, and I do look back on those years fondly.<\/p>\n<p>But we are done with that!\u00a0 That season of life is over, and now I can smile fondly on those still going through it and tell them about all the ways the library can help them.<\/p>\n<p>There are some lovely things about this phase of life, and this was a nice reminder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I represented the library at a Back to School Fair at a middle school. And while I really enjoyed the middle school kids with their excitement and energy, and while I really enjoyed my own kids when they were in middle school &#8212; I was struck by how glad I am that I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}