{"id":962,"date":"2007-08-23T08:59:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/yay-day-4\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T14:01:20","slug":"yay-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/yay-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Yay Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a dreary kind of day here, grey and threatening rain &#8211; not that I can see a window from here.  And I have a cold that kept me up all night and so I might have otherwise been tempted to be a little cranky and feel just a little bit sorry for myself.<\/p>\n<p>But then I started thinking about all the things that I have to be grateful about these days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a healthy, happy pregnancy.  (What they say about the second trimester being the &#8220;honeymoon trimester&#8221; really is true, isn&#8217;t it?)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>the new nanny.  I don&#8217;t know who is happier, the boys or Beloved and I.  Not once has Simon said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want Jen to come over today&#8221; whereas he complained endlessly about going to the previous caregivers&#8217; houses.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>a four-day weekend this weekend, and a four-day weekend next weekend.  Yay!<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>as if a four-day Labour Day weekend weren&#8217;t enough to celebrate all on its own, we&#8217;re going on a mostly FREE weekend getaway to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smuggs.com\">Smuggler&#8217;s Notch <\/a>resort in Vermont!!  The media relations folks out there (Hi Karen and Barbara!) caught some of my posts about the <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/category\/ottawa-bar-harbor-2007\/\">trip to Bar Harbour <\/a>in their &#8216;family vacations&#8217; google filter, and they&#8217;re doing an experimental blogger outreach campaign.  They&#8217;ve offered us the standard press package, including two nights of accomodation &#8211; free!  We&#8217;ve got all sorts of cool activities lined up, like an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smuggs.com\/pages\/summer\/outdoor\/canoeing_kayaking.php\">&#8220;evening wildlife watch&#8221; <\/a>family canoe trip, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smuggs.com\/pages\/summer\/kids\/index.php\">day camp for the boys<\/a> on Saturday so Beloved and I can enjoy a (don&#8217;t laugh!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smuggs.com\/pages\/summer\/outdoor\/segways.php\">Segway tour <\/a>of the resort.  You know, those stand-up motorized scooters?  Now picture pregnant, naturally clumsy me on one of them &#8211; hilarity, if not trauma to innocent bystanders, is sure to ensue.  Plus they have FOUR pools, EIGHT waterslides, a couple of different playgrounds, trail hiking, shopping&#8230; it&#8217;s going to be a busy weekend!  (Don&#8217;t hate me; it&#8217;s an embarrassment of riches, I know.  I&#8217;m not worthy &#8211; but I still said yes!)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>and last, but not least, the boys continue to make me laugh every single day.  We haven&#8217;t told them about the baby yet (the anticipation of the new school year is enough to make their little heads explode; I can&#8217;t burden them with a five month wait when I can barely stand it myself) but we have been casually dropping babies into the conversation a lot lately.  The other night at bedtime, the boys spontaneously started talking about having a baby brother or sister.  Tristan&#8217;s preference is for a baby boy, whom he thinks should be named &#8220;Joe Joe&#8221;.  Simon, on the other hand, favours a baby sister, and he insists her name should be &#8220;Darth Luke&#8221;.  Note to self:  don&#8217;t engage the boys in the baby-naming process!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Now you go!  What&#8217;s making the sun shine in your world today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a dreary kind of day here, grey and threatening rain &#8211; not that I can see a window from here. And I have a cold that kept me up all night and so I might have otherwise been tempted to be a little cranky and feel just a little bit sorry for myself. But &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/yay-day-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;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-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yay-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}