{"id":1978,"date":"2007-07-02T12:37:06","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T19:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/07\/02\/oh-baby\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:12","slug":"oh-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/07\/02\/oh-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is purely about ego. (They all are, but sometimes I rationalize that I&#8217;m motivated by more constructive or altruistic reasons.) We spent a busy weekend, beginning Friday evening through last night, nesting in the baby&#8217;s room. We unpacked toys, clothes, baby-sized hairbrushes and clippers, and so on. We bought a bookcase (securing it to the wall), a small stereo (for listening to the lullabies!), a floor lamp, and the mattress. We dressed the bed. (I even <em>ironed<\/em> the dust ruffle. People, I haven&#8217;t picked up an iron in about four years. I hate ironing.) Husband also assembled the travel system, which is kind of like a Transformer toy. Push a button and the thing automatically unfolds and pops open. Collapsing is just as easy. It&#8217;s a toy for big kids! We&#8217;re very pleased with ourselves and how the room came together. As of this week I&#8217;m eight months pregnant, so it&#8217;s now just a matter of patiently waiting while she adds more weight and nature puts the finishing touches on her. Here&#8217;s a photo or two. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/99173376@N00\/435mM4\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see the whole set too<\/a> (only 14 photos). <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/697699864\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1077\/697699864_c95d3b1aa6.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"baby room 3\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/696856493\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1347\/696856493_cd194a04ce.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"baby room 7\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is purely about ego. (They all are, but sometimes I rationalize that I&#8217;m motivated by more constructive or altruistic reasons.) We spent a busy weekend, beginning Friday evening through last night, nesting in the baby&#8217;s room. We unpacked toys, clothes, baby-sized hairbrushes and clippers, and so on. We bought a bookcase (securing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11315,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/11315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}