{"id":141,"date":"2006-10-30T13:25:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T23:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2006-10-30T13:25:01","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T23:25:01","slug":"tgif-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"TGIF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No that is not a format I save my photos in. It stands for Thank God It&#8217;s Friday. Having worked as a salaried employee for a great part of my life, and endured school and college for another substantial part I felt the TGIF and the Monday blues often. Even now, that only Andy is working I am much happier on Friday looking forward to the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Leilani can tell when it is Monday (or maybe I should call it Dadda-going-back-to-work-day). 4 out of 5 Mondays she is cranky &#8211; really unpleasant. Almost all other days she is fine, unless she is sick or hurting, or in the car or otherwise constraint for 3, 4 hours. The strangest thing is I noticed a few a-typical Mondays (like Andy had worked the weekend, or took off half the Monday) when she still was cranky.<\/p>\n<p>Friday we usually go to the beach. Last Friday she got up much earlier than usual, just past 7am, and one of the first things she said when I took her to the bathroom was &#8211; pointing to my bathingsuit which hung there &#8211; becc*- her word for beach (unfortunatelly pronounced almost the same as milk &#8211; mecc* &#8211; which she says in German, but the pointing helps.) Anyway&#8230; we went to the beach and she was happy. I believed for an entire day she could thell it was Friday, until she started the same thing Saturday. Since we didn&#8217;t go to the beach on demand she kept saying it all day long. Andy thinks it doesn&#8217;t mean anything and is just  babble word.<\/p>\n<p>I do have a plan to fix the Monday problem &#8211; I will pick an activity that she really likes, this Monday it will be the children&#8217;s discovery museum, or find a playgroup, and try to do it consistantly every Monday, and see if that helps.<\/p>\n<p>* in German the sound at the end is ch &#8211; close to the spanish J but harder &#8211; so there the spelling would be beech and meech&#8230; she has troubles with the L<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No that is not a format I save my photos in. It stands for Thank God It&#8217;s Friday. Having worked as a salaried employee for a great part of my life, and endured school and college for another substantial part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}