{"id":179,"date":"2006-12-05T15:01:54","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T21:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=189"},"modified":"2006-12-05T15:01:54","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T21:01:54","slug":"time-on-my-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Time on my hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little over 2 weeks since Lynae was born.\u00c2\u00a0 On the advice of a friend\u00c2\u00a0and encouragement from my husband, I didn&#8217;t really do much for the first two weeks (other than stay on top of the laundry and make meals).\u00c2\u00a0 I spent a lot of time feeding Lynae and sleeping.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0It has been\u00c2\u00a0nice.\u00c2\u00a0 I rather like sending the boys off to school and then heading back to bed for a nap.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s been two weeks now and I&#8217;m beginning to feel unrest.\u00c2\u00a0 Like, I really should be DOING something around here.\u00c2\u00a0 Our house is unpacked for the most part, but there is still a lot left to be organized and there&#8217;s lots of little, non-essential things to be unpacked and sorted.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem is that I don&#8217;t feel motivated to do much at all.<\/p>\n<p>So here I am with time on my hands, and not much motivation to do anything and beginning to feeling guilty for not being more productive.\u00c2\u00a0 Either I need to cut myself some slack and not expect so much of myself or I need to start getting off my butt and doing something around here so I stop feeling guilty.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, maybe I need a little of both.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I&#8217;ll spend more time blogging to avoid doing the things I don&#8217;t want to do. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little over 2 weeks since Lynae was born.\u00c2\u00a0 On the advice of a friend\u00c2\u00a0and encouragement from my husband, I didn&#8217;t really do [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=179\">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":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}