{"id":3473,"date":"2010-09-14T23:59:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T03:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2010-09-14T23:59:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T03:59:12","slug":"day-123-first-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=3473","title":{"rendered":"Day 123 – First meeting."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Jaia met her teacher and saw her classroom for the first time. \u00a0I fully expected resistance. \u00a0I fully expected her to start whining as we dressed for the meeting or as we got in the car to go there. \u00a0I fully expected her to be fearful of this new experience that will effectively change all of our lives.<\/p>\n

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What I didn’t expect was sheer glee. \u00a0Or excitement. \u00a0Or confidence and bravery. \u00a0BUt my little gal likes to keep me on my toes. She literally burst out of the car and ran to the front doors. \u00a0She walked right up to the teacher and introduced herself. \u00a0She asked some questions and then went off to play with the toys.<\/p>\n

It was like she was a mini grown up. \u00a0And as I sat there, my adult sized tush on one of those tiny chairs talking about story time and gym class with her new teacher, watching her show independence that I have never seen before, I felt overwhelmed, unprepared and a wee bit sad. \u00a0She is growing up. \u00a0And she seemed so happy about it. \u00a0And seeing her happy makes me happy. \u00a0And with that realization, any trace of anything else I was feeling just simply vanished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week Jaia met her teacher and saw her classroom for the first time. \u00a0I fully expected resistance. \u00a0I fully expected her to start whining as we dressed for the meeting or as we got in the car to go there. \u00a0I fully expected her to be fearful of this new experience that will effectively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,26,29,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}