{"id":7020,"date":"2010-12-20T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=7020"},"modified":"2010-12-20T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T17:47:23","slug":"adventures-in-fatherhood-just-me-and-the-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/adventures-in-fatherhood-just-me-and-the-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Fatherhood: Just me and the boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7023\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_04441-500x752.jpg\" alt=\"Boys and I\" title=\"Boys and I\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7023\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_04441-500x752.jpg 500w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_04441-300x451.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_04441.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boys and I on their one month birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s been just over eight weeks since the boys were born &#8212; and tomorrow is their two month birthday.<\/p>\n<p>And like it or not, the powers that be have decided that eight weeks is plenty of time for a woman who&#8217;s had a C-Section to recover, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/life\/going-back-to-work\/\">my wonderful Life is returning to work<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>To make things easier on the boys, I&#8217;ve opted to take vacation time this week to watch them by myself at home. And since our office is closed next week for the holidays, I&#8217;ll be at home with them a second week before our moms take over after the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>It should be an interesting two weeks! I&#8217;m thrilled to get to spend so much time with the boys, but I know it&#8217;s going to be far more work than I realize.<\/p>\n<p>Laurie&#8217;s suggested I&#8217;ll probably do more work during the next two weeks than I ever would have done at the office &#8212; she&#8217;s probably right.<\/p>\n<p>When I first agreed to it, the boys had just come home and they were sleeping 95% of the time. So as the time&#8217;s been getting closer, I&#8217;ve been looking forward to all the &#8220;extra work&#8221; I&#8217;d get done on some of my projects.<\/p>\n<p>But as the time&#8217;s gotten even closer &#8212; the boys are becoming more and more active and down time is becoming less and less.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; if you have something waiting on my to-do list&#8230; I&#8217;ll do my best &#8211; but I&#8217;m not promising anything right now.<\/p>\n<p>And you may be hearing\/seeing a lot from me online&#8230; or hardly nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows? We&#8217;ll see how it goes and keep our fingers crossed that I won&#8217;t be calling for help after the first few hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been just over eight weeks since the boys were born &#8212; and tomorrow is their two month birthday. And like it or not, the powers that be have decided that eight weeks is plenty of time for a woman who&#8217;s had a C-Section to recover, so my wonderful Life is returning to work &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/adventures-in-fatherhood-just-me-and-the-boys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adventures in Fatherhood: Just me and the boys<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3893],"tags":[3068,3938,414,865],"class_list":["post-7020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-fatherhood","tag-boys","tag-daycare","tag-holiday","tag-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1Pe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}