{"id":2189,"date":"2013-06-13T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/13\/another-school-year-gone\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:35:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:35:23","slug":"another-school-year-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/13\/another-school-year-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER (SCHOOL) YEAR GONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t even look at my children sometimes without boggling. They&#8217;re both taller than I am and it&#8217;s happened so fast. Martin will be 16 in December. I just asked him how old he was and when he gave me a very sarcastic, &#8220;I&#8217;m FIFTEEN&#8221;, I said, &#8220;That can&#8217;t be right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Time flies, yes, it does. <\/p>\n<p>They both had their last day of school yesterday and when I said I was probably going to go to Martin&#8217;s if they were at the same time, Karin got all upset and said no one loved her. So I was relieved to find out that her end-of-school ceremony was at 9 a.m. while Martin&#8217;s wasn&#8217;t until 11:15.<br \/>\nShe had to be there at 8, and Anders couldn&#8217;t take her so I drove her to school since she understandably didn&#8217;t want to bike in her dress. I took a book with me and traveled with Richard Coeur de Lion to Outremer for an hour in the car before I went inside &#8230;only to find out that I was LITERALLY THE ONLY PARENT IN THE PLACE. Mmmhmmm&#8230;seems once they hit 7th grade, parents are really not the thing. So I gave her a hug when she came in at 9 and skedaddled back home to pick up Martin and head to HIS ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>He had to bring a cake, so I left all the prepared ingredients at home with him and he had it put together when I arrived back to pick him up. It was a meringue cake with whipped cream mixed with Daim chunks (think: Heath bar) and fresh strawberries. SO YUMMY. They had a cake party first, which dozens of treats and then a mini-concert (Martin played the bass guitar!) and then a rather emotional procession for the 9th graders who were leaving BMSL. <\/p>\n<p>So, next fall I will have a high schooler (10th grader!) and an 8th grader in the house. EEK!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-prn1\/1017335_10151507375523299_1498297449_n.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=679 title=\"Karin last day of 7th grade\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-frc1\/1005875_10151507375548299_855358026_n.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=706 title=\"Karin ready for summer\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t see in the photos but the dress is backless and the shoes are white lace. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/distilleryimage10.s3.amazonaws.com\/7f27b948d45811e2bf9022000a1fb723_7.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=500 title=\"Martin last day of 9th grade\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve been soda-free for 4 days now. Waking up with headaches every morning and pretty bitchy the first day, but so far, so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t even look at my children sometimes without boggling. They&#8217;re both taller than I am and it&#8217;s happened so fast. Martin will be 16 in December. I just asked him how old he was and when he gave me a very sarcastic, &#8220;I&#8217;m FIFTEEN&#8221;, I said, &#8220;That can&#8217;t be right.&#8221; Time flies, yes, it does. They both had their last day of school yesterday and when I said I was probably going to go to Martin&#8217;s if they were at the same time, Karin got all upset and said no one loved her. So I was relieved to find&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,10,7,17],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-karinbean","tag-martinbean","tag-obiterphotos","tag-offspring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4164,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/4164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}