{"id":254,"date":"2008-08-07T20:59:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T02:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=323"},"modified":"2008-08-07T20:59:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T02:59:29","slug":"life-with-no-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Life with no kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were childless for five days (we shipped the kids off to various grandparents).  It was wonderful.  All families should do this.  It&#8217;s good to remember what life was like with no kids.  Although for us, the only other time we&#8217;ve had no kids (for more than a day) as a married couple was on our honeymoon (we were at the lake for a week).  I think we should make this an annual thing.  Here&#8217;s some of my thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s so quiet<\/li>\n<li>Our house would be too big for us if there was just the two of us<\/li>\n<li>The house stays a lot cleaner<\/li>\n<li>Life is simpler<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s so quiet<\/li>\n<li>Life would be much more boring with no kids (although as my hubbie pointed out, we would just fill it with other things)<\/li>\n<li>There is more time to play &#8220;Guitar Hero&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I can leave the house without having to make arrangements for childcare<\/li>\n<li>Life is more relaxed<\/li>\n<li>Planning for a night out is much less complicated&#8230; planning?  No need to plan.  We can just go!<\/li>\n<li>Did I mention its really quiet?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I really love my kids and will be happy to have them back (the youngest one is back already), but its a really nice break to take once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really thankful for my hubbie.  He was a bachelor for many years which means he strongly values time just by himself to think, read, write, reflect.  I think for those of us that have had kids for a long time we&#8217;ve forgotten what it was like to regularly take time just for ourselves.  But it really is needed (for everyone&#8217;s sanity).  So because of my hubbie I&#8217;m learning to take time for myself.  I feel much better when I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were childless for five days (we shipped the kids off to various grandparents). It was wonderful. All families should do this. It&#8217;s good to [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=254\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}