{"id":53,"date":"2006-05-15T22:14:19","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T03:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/15\/happy-mothers-day\/"},"modified":"2006-05-15T22:14:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T03:14:19","slug":"happy-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/happy-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we celebrated Mother&#8217;s Day.  Tara said it was her best Mother&#8217;s Day ever!  I believe her, chiefly for these two reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>because it was her first Mother&#8217;s Day<\/li>\n<li>because of the awesome gift I gave her<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Tara&#8217;s recently rediscovered her favorite cocktail, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmopolitan_%28cocktail%29\">Cosmopolitan<\/a>.   But this is a drink we&#8217;ve never been able to enjoy at home.  So I got some martini glasses, a stainless steel shaker, and all the booze, juice, and fruit needed to make a professional Cosmo.  It went over quite well.  Nothing says &#8220;motherhood&#8221; like getting all liquored up!<\/p>\n<p>I also cooked both breakfast and dinner, and tried my best to prevent her from lifting a finger all day.  No question, she deserved it for all the hard work she does every single day taking care of la beb\u00c3\u00a9.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say, parenthood is not easy.  I didn&#8217;t think it would be.  But I&#8217;ve come to realized that there are extra demands placed on mothers by society, by biology, and by their own emotional clockwork.  I&#8217;ve gaind newfound levels of respect and admiration for all the mothers everywhere, throughout time.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;d like to take a moment and wish a (slightly belated) <strong>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day<\/strong> to all the mom&#8217;s in my life: <em>Tara, Betty, Michele, Meg, Nicolle, Sylvia, another Betty, Donna, Kelli, Samantha, Kathy, Nancy, Maxine, Rita, Claire, Alic\u00c3\u00a9, Kate, Sophia&#8217;s Mom (sorry, I don&#8217;t remember your name!), Melanie, Maria, Paulette, Judie, Maquita, and Toni-Marie<\/em>.  Plus recently departed Moms <em>Genevieve, Johanna, and Selma<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I apologize in advance for any name I forgot to include.  It doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t love you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we celebrated Mother&#8217;s Day. Tara said it was her best Mother&#8217;s Day ever! I believe her, chiefly for these two reasons: because it was her first Mother&#8217;s Day because of the awesome gift I gave her Tara&#8217;s recently rediscovered her favorite cocktail, the Cosmopolitan. But this is a drink we&#8217;ve never been able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-general-musings","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}