{"id":230,"date":"2007-04-03T07:06:01","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/03\/sister-secrets\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T07:06:01","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T15:06:01","slug":"sister-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Sister Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday E. walked up to A. and told her a secret. She cupped her hands over A.&#8217;s ears and A. tilted her head up so sweetly and listened so intently. I was torn, it was the most perfect picture and so wanted to grab my camera, but I didn&#8217;t want to ruin the moment so I just sat and quietly watched. It is a picture forever burned in my brain, though.<\/p>\n<p>I could only hear &#8220;psst, psss, psst&#8230;&#8221; but then A. looked up at E. and they both laughed like it was the most delicious secret ever.<\/p>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;what are you guys whispering about?&#8221;<br \/>\nE. giggling said, &#8220;nothing, Mama,&#8221; and ran off into the other room.<br \/>\nThen little &#8220;Polly Parrot&#8221; also said, &#8220;nufin'&#8221; and ran screeching after her big sister.<\/p>\n<p>It reminded me why I really was hoping E. would have a sister someday. Someone to share her secrets with and someone who would always be her best friend.<\/p>\n<p>Although, they were playing dollhouse after that, and this was the scene I ran across&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/close_mama.jpg\" title=\"close_mama.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/close_mama.jpg\" alt=\"close_mama.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/mama_house.jpg\" title=\"mama_house.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/mama_house.jpg\" alt=\"mama_house.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are they plotting to overthrow the management? Or maybe just make Mommy crazy enough that she will jump from our balcony?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday E. walked up to A. and told her a secret. She cupped her hands over A.&#8217;s ears and A. tilted her head up so sweetly and listened so intently. I was torn, it was the most perfect picture and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=230\">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":[4,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addison","category-emma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-3I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}