{"id":2028,"date":"2007-08-24T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T00:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/08\/24\/time-for-fun\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:39:30","slug":"time-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/08\/24\/time-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Time For Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;John Lubbock<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So while my daughter rests suspended in her dark, cozy, warm room listening to the rhythm of my heart and being nourished through her belly, I too will be sure to rest. I came home from my doctor appointment and slept for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>In the past week I&#8217;ve softened a little bit but not dilated, and my babe still hangs high. We&#8217;ve scheduled an induction for September 6 (I&#8217;ll be 41 and 1\/2 weeks). I was assured that if by next week I&#8217;m no riper and she&#8217;s not lower, we can change that to a planned C-section. By waiting until the 6th we give her more opportunity to initiate labor on her own.<\/p>\n<p>So I have two more weeks to be with her in this way &#8212; and two more weeks to take the advice of the wife of Husband&#8217;s coworker to have some fun (some of these made me laugh out loud):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to Safeway and buy a pregnancy test. If anyone asks, tell them you have some suspicions. <\/li>\n<li>Go out to lunch all by yourself &#8212; someplace with cloth napkins and no crayons\/coloring page placemats. Eat whatever you want. Linger over dessert. <\/li>\n<li>Watch a whole movie from start to finish in one sitting without interruption.<\/li>\n<li>Change your answering machine message to: &#8220;Yes, we had the baby and we didn&#8217;t tell you. Don&#8217;t you feel foolish for not calling to find out more often?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>If people ask when you are due &#8212; tell them November, triplets.<\/li>\n<li>If you find yourself in a long line, crumple forward and moan &#8212; presto! New line opens just for you.<\/li>\n<li>Pedicure, pedicure, pedicure &#8212; this is the time that you can get the extra leg massage for free.<\/li>\n<li>The notion that sex induces labor is lie perpetrated by husbands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. &#8211;John Lubbock So while my daughter rests suspended in her dark, cozy, warm room listening to the rhythm of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","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=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10250,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/10250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}