{"id":809,"date":"2013-02-13T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2013-02-13T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:57:08","slug":"ashes-ashes-we-all-fall-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"Ashes, ashes&#8230;we all fall down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Ash Wednesday, which means Lent starts now!\u00a0 No&#8230;now!\u00a0 Wait.\u00a0 Ok, NOW!!!<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that instead of giving UP something for Lent,\u00a0you can DO something??\u00a0\u00a0This year, my Lenten Resolution is to be a kinder, gentler, more loving\u00a0mother.<\/p>\n<p>Lenten Resolution Day 1?\u00a0 I saddled up that horse and rode it the he** outta\u00a0Dodge before 7:15 this morning.\u00a0 Much yelling about missing belts and uncombed hair does not make for a kinder, gentler mother.\u00a0 Nor does the\u00a0&#8220;IF YOU MISS YOUR CARPOOL RIDE I&#8217;M <em>NOT<\/em> DRIVING YOU TO SCHOOL!&#8221; (all in caps for a reason) sort of verbiage.\u00a0\u00a0But Hey!\u00a0 If you&#8217;re gonna dance around naked in your room butchering the words to the National Anthem up until 5 minutes before carpool is due, mean mother comes to roost and I can&#8217;t be held responsible for what she says.<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0then\u00a0I went\u00a0to church to get the\u00a0cremated-remains-of-dead-people ashes smeared on my forehead in the approximation of a cross.\u00a0 (Ok, ok.\u00a0 I&#8217;m kidding.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not dead people ashes.\u00a0 It&#8217;s dead pet ashes.\u00a0 Ugh.\u00a0 Ok.\u00a0 Still kidding.\u00a0 It&#8217;s burned palms leftover from Palm Sunday.\u00a0 Happy now?\u00a0 I thought the dead-people-ashes made a way better story.\u00a0 Kindof like a crazy Catholic equivalent to\u00a0Celtic blue face-paint glimpsed across the field of battle, but <em>whatever<\/em>, you sticklers for the truth!)\u00a0 And I got talking to a\u00a0mom-friend who told me that Lent doesn&#8217;t actually start until you get your ashes.<\/p>\n<p>Holy reprieve, Batman!\u00a0 (get it?\u00a0 HOLY??\u00a0 Hardy har har.\u00a0 Pun totally intended!\u00a0 Am I good, or what?!)<\/p>\n<p>More Loving Mother starts NOW!\u00a0 Wait!!!\u00a0 oknow.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 NOW!!!!!!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_812\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?attachment_id=812\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-812\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-812\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-812\" title=\"Remember you are dust and unto dust you shall return\" src=\"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/This-TOTALLY-looks-like-a-cross-right-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"This TOTALLY looks like a cross, right?\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/This-TOTALLY-looks-like-a-cross-right-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/This-TOTALLY-looks-like-a-cross-right.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This TOTALLY looks like a cross, right?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Ash Wednesday, which means Lent starts now!\u00a0 No&#8230;now!\u00a0 Wait.\u00a0 Ok, NOW!!! Did you know that instead of giving UP something for Lent,\u00a0you can DO something??\u00a0\u00a0This year, my Lenten Resolution is to be a kinder, gentler, more loving\u00a0mother. Lenten Resolution Day 1?\u00a0 I saddled up that horse and rode it the he** outta\u00a0Dodge before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809"}],"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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}