{"id":296,"date":"2004-05-05T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2004-05-05T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T13:21:00","slug":"a-little-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"A little down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those who know me know that I am an upbeat person, because frankly, nobody wants to hear me whine about my personal problems. Hey, we’ve ALL got problems, and I know my friends are all dealing with their own lives.<\/p>\n

But I will say that sometimes, when your child is “different” than other kids, it can be really hard to focus on what you have instead of seeing what you don’t have. The contrast can be particularly harsh when you see them in a crowd of “normal” kids. There’s a reason that people say “I don’t care if it’s a boy or a girl, as long as it’s healthy.” Nothing else really matters besides that.<\/p>\n

It’s been a little rough lately.<\/p>\n

Umm… lighthearted, lighthearted, lemme see… Oh, I bought yarn<\/a> yesterday. It was mispriced at 3.98 instead of the 5.98 it was supposed to be, and they let me have it anyway before they marked the rest of it up! I may pair it with some Trendsetter Coconut.<\/a> I felt like I’d “won” somehow when I got the cheap yarn.<\/p>\n

Hey, don’t judge me, it’s cheaper than crack.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure at this point that I’m going to have enough inventory for a table at Simucon. I’m trying to decide whether to go for a half table, or just to put things up in the auction booth.<\/p>\n

Too many projects, not enough time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those who know me know that I am an upbeat person, because frankly, nobody wants to hear me whine about my personal problems. Hey, we’ve ALL got problems, and I know my friends are all dealing with their own lives. But I will say that sometimes, when your child is “different” than other kids, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}