{"id":1197,"date":"2008-12-10T21:07:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.wordpress.com\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2008-12-10T21:07:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T05:07:10","slug":"today-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1197","title":{"rendered":"Today, by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10 =<\/strong> the number of times I have used the threat &#8220;Santa just made a check by your name&#8221; in the last 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 =<\/strong> the number of meltdown temper tantrums which directly correlates to the number of threats.\u00a0 (See #10 above.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 =<\/strong> the number of loads of laundry I have washed, dried, f<span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">olded and put away<\/span> and thought about folding and putting away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7 =<\/strong> the number of outfits between two little girls. (Gee, I guess that explains #8 above, right?)<\/p>\n<p><strong>6 =<\/strong> the number of stamps I had to peel off and reposition on little red envelopes. (Addie was helping me label, stamp and send our Christmas cards out.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 =<\/strong> the number of different pairs of tights that have been donned on between two little girls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4 =<\/strong> the number of hours spent running between my project on the computer and helping Em with her homework.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 =<\/strong> the number of stores we visited trying to find a little white button-up blouse for Em. (Do they not sell cute little white blouses any longer? We went with a black turtleneck instead.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 =<\/strong> the number of &#8220;major events&#8221; attended this evening. (One dance recital and one school Christmas program.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 =<\/strong> the number of times I got sick today. (A vast improvement over yesterday&#8217;s bout with the &#8216;ol stomach flu, trust me!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a title=\"DSC_0097.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/3099792732\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3140\/3099792732_f0bfca68cf_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0097.jpg\" width=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best thing about today&#8230;is it is almost over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 = the number of times I have used the threat &#8220;Santa just made a check by your name&#8221; in the last 12 hours. 9 = the number of meltdown temper tantrums which directly correlates to the number of threats.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1197\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-chaos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}