{"id":876,"date":"2007-05-24T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2007-05-24T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T11:35:00","slug":"we-definitely-need-a-yay-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/we-definitely-need-a-yay-day\/","title":{"rendered":"We definitely need a Yay Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Whaddya think, peeps? We&#8217;re long overdue for a Yay Day around here.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t been by on <a href=\"http:\/\/momm-eh.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/yay-day.html\">Yay Day <\/a>before, the rules are simple. Leave a comment with something that makes you happy today, or something that makes you proud, or something that makes you smile. Celebrate the small victories in life &#8211; and the big ones, too! For once, you&#8217;re allowed to brag to your heart&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<p>Given my emotional instability of the past week or so, I&#8217;m feeling surprisingly happy today, and that alone is a reason to celebrate. And the boys, those boys who were in one of &#8216;those&#8217; testing phases, the relentless and exhausting testing phases? Apparently they&#8217;re done. They&#8217;ve been just lovely little creatures for the past 30 hours or so, and I&#8217;ve been thoroughly enjoying simply being with them.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, which came first &#8211; the relaxed and contented mommy or the relaxed and contented boys?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, here&#8217;s my contribution to Yay Day: the simple pleasure of a sprinkler and a warm summer evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_F8hCQ7IbS40\/RlTRsL_y60I\/AAAAAAAAAQI\/RUPjnHTZJ5s\/s1600-h\/IMG_4523.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067906037763468098\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_F8hCQ7IbS40\/RlTRsL_y60I\/AAAAAAAAAQI\/RUPjnHTZJ5s\/s320\/IMG_4523.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_F8hCQ7IbS40\/RlTR9L_y61I\/AAAAAAAAAQQ\/KvkpZNyj3Z4\/s1600-h\/IMG_4529.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067906329821244242\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_F8hCQ7IbS40\/RlTR9L_y61I\/AAAAAAAAAQQ\/KvkpZNyj3Z4\/s320\/IMG_4529.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_F8hCQ7IbS40\/RlTSHb_y62I\/AAAAAAAAAQY\/EwQcLflB8yo\/s1600-h\/IMG_4530.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067906505914903394\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_F8hCQ7IbS40\/RlTSHb_y62I\/AAAAAAAAAQY\/EwQcLflB8yo\/s320\/IMG_4530.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(That&#8217;s a soccer game in the background. One of the occupational hazzards of living across the street from a park &#8211; the invasion of the minivan-driving soccer parents three nights a week!)<\/p>\n<p>Your turn! What is making you happy today?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whaddya think, peeps? We&#8217;re long overdue for a Yay Day around here. If you haven&#8217;t been by on Yay Day before, the rules are simple. Leave a comment with something that makes you happy today, or something that makes you proud, or something that makes you smile. Celebrate the small victories in life &#8211; and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/we-definitely-need-a-yay-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We definitely need a Yay Day!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yay-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}