{"id":3380,"date":"2014-06-15T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2014-06-15T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T19:00:34","slug":"peace-and-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=3380","title":{"rendered":"Peace and Quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year \u2013 for his birthday, Christmas, Father\u2019s Day \u2013 we\u2019d ask my dad\u00a0what he wanted for a gift and he would invariably reply, \u201cPeaceandquiet.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Like it was all one word and something you could wrap up and hand over at cake time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Well I’m here to tell you that peaceandquiet doesn\u2019t come easy in a house with five kids and, quite frankly, is impossible to give.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>In a house with five kids.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>(All gag gifts of ear plugs aside and I already mentioned about the five kids, right?)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But today?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Today for Father\u2019s Day, I wanted to finally, FINALLY give my father that gift.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>It makes no never mind that\u00a0all five of us kids have been\u00a0out of the house for decades, and Dad has a plethora of peaceandquiet now.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>(Well, other than what my mother can make inroads into, that is.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Hi, Mom, rock on!)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So, to the man who: left the gift-of-a-cool-flashlight under my pillow when I was a kid so I could discover it on my birthday while you were away on a fishing trip; who strategically placed pieces of cardboard all over our rocky driveway so that you and I\u00a0could practice bounce passes and layups in preparation for my highschool basketball games; who wrote letters to me on your work letterhead when I was in college; who calls me now every Wednesday because you said you would.\u00a0\u00a0I thank you for being a great father and f<\/span>or all the big and small ways you showed me your love.<\/span>\u00a0 And now…without further ado…I\u00a0<\/span>present you\u00a0with: peaceandquiet.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone, everyone!<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Shhhhhh!!<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s starting!!<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Be vewy, vewy QUIET!!!!<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I love you, Dad.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Happy Father\u2019s Day!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

P.S.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Hi, Hubby.<\/span>\u00a0 Thank you for being a great\u00a0<\/span>father to our own kids.\u00a0\u00a0I love you and Happy Father\u2019s Day to you too!!\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year \u2013 for his birthday, Christmas, Father\u2019s Day \u2013 we\u2019d ask my dad\u00a0what he wanted for a gift and he would invariably reply, \u201cPeaceandquiet.\u201d\u00a0 Like it was all one word and something you could wrap up and hand over at cake time. Well I’m here to tell you that peaceandquiet doesn\u2019t come easy in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[111,113,112],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3398,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}