{"id":171,"date":"2006-10-18T22:49:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T04:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=181"},"modified":"2006-10-18T22:49:32","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T04:49:32","slug":"the-end-is-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"The end is near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Today we took possession of our new home.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got most of the packing done &#8211; there&#8217;s boxes everywhere.\u00c2\u00a0 Who knew we had this much stuff lurking in our home??\u00c2\u00a0 This Saturday will be moving day.\u00c2\u00a0 So the end is near for the packing end of things &#8211; unpacking will just be starting after this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As of October 28, I will be off work for a whole year.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m very excited about this.\u00c2\u00a0 I missed the year maternity leave with my last one (had to go back after 6 months).\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m really looking forward to enjoying a full year off with\u00c2\u00a0our baby.<\/p>\n<p>I also saw my doctor today.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m at 36 weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 She gave me &#8220;the papers&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 The papers I&#8217;m supposed to keep on me at all times just in case I go into labour.\u00c2\u00a0 She said the baby&#8217;s head is pretty much &#8216;down&#8217;, which is kind of interesting because often after you&#8217;ve had a few babies, the baby doesn&#8217;t actually &#8216;drop&#8217; until you&#8217;re in labour.\u00c2\u00a0 This is baby number 3 for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I&#8217;m not banking on going into labour early (my 2 boys were both reluctant to leave the womb and had to be &#8216;coaxed out&#8217; \/ ie: labour was induced one week and one\u00c2\u00a0&#038; a half weeks past my due date).\u00c2\u00a0 My husband\u00c2\u00a0says I&#8217;m pretty &#8216;chirpy&#8217; about the whole &#8216;being late&#8217; thing, and my doctor stressed that every pregnancy is different.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess we&#8217;ll see who&#8217;s right in a few weeks time.<\/p>\n<p>(and who&#8217;ll be doing the chirping then)\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in more ways than one. \u00c2\u00a0Today we took possession of our new home.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got most of the packing done &#8211; there&#8217;s boxes everywhere.\u00c2\u00a0 Who [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=171\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}