{"id":2306,"date":"2008-04-05T07:18:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T15:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:19:28","slug":"right-before-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/04\/05\/right-before-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Right Before Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Husband proposed we just go to bed after we put Bean to bed for the night and read for awhile before turning in. He observed that I looked exceptionally tired. We hadn&#8217;t done that in a long time &#8212; just relaxing together in bed just prior to sleep. So he read one of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;search-type=ss&#038;index=books&#038;field-author=Cecil%20Adams\">Straight Dope<\/a> books, while I drew in my journal. My brain was too weary to look at words and think. I needed a non-linear, right-brain activity. Here&#8217;s what came out. It was a thoroughly enjoyable way to spend time before sleep. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2390030106\/\" title=\"journey into motherhood by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2077\/2390030106_5cfc54572c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" alt=\"journey into motherhood\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Journey Into Motherhood<\/strong> \/ 7&#215;10&#8243; sketch paper with colored marker<\/center><br \/>\nPoor Pixie really is sick. She threw up twice yesterday, had a slight fever, and generally felt cruddy. She slept most of the day. Needless to say, we will not attend our first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babylovesdisco.com\/\">Baby Loves Disco<\/a>. I was able to give the tickets away, though, so they&#8217;re not wasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Husband proposed we just go to bed after we put Bean to bed for the night and read for awhile before turning in. He observed that I looked exceptionally tired. We hadn&#8217;t done that in a long time &#8212; just relaxing together in bed just prior to sleep. So he read one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-motherhood","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","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=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13832,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/13832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}