{"id":9555,"date":"2017-02-23T09:53:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:23:56","slug":"february-winter-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2017\/02\/23\/february-winter-break\/","title":{"rendered":"February Winter Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some years, our family will &#8220;go to snow.&#8221; Last year there was none, so I took Bean to Los Angeles to look at dinosaurs. This year, despite there being plenty of snow, we didn&#8217;t get coordinated enough to go. We don&#8217;t ski, and there is only so much sledding one kid and two parents can enjoy. This has made for a quieter, somewhat duller break. Yesterday, Bean and I took a three mile walk in our neighborhood. She was very resistant at first, but after awhile and my gentle insistence, we discovered the joy of being outside. Her eye caught leaf impressions in a concrete sidewalk. We visited a small pond near our house. We played a game where she ran around and my task was to try to get a picture of her. We talked about friendships, and spiritual beliefs, and how to handle frustration. And we got silly. It was good medicine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/33032596366\/in\/dateposted-friend\/\" title=\"turtle pond in winter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3944\/33032596366_74b51ec1e1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" alt=\"turtle pond in winter\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/33032598666\/in\/dateposted-friend\/\" title=\"sidewalk impressions\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/329\/33032598666_89bbe680c4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"254\" alt=\"sidewalk impressions\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/32228753594\/in\/dateposted-friend\/\" title=\"Bean february 2017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2814\/32228753594_8a2acc36a2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" alt=\"Bean february 2017\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/32228752204\/in\/dateposted-friend\/\" title=\"Bean february 2017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3672\/32228752204_770084e832.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Bean february 2017\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years, our family will &#8220;go to snow.&#8221; Last year there was none, so I took Bean to Los Angeles to look at dinosaurs. This year, despite there being plenty of snow, we didn&#8217;t get coordinated enough to go. We don&#8217;t ski, and there is only so much sledding one kid and two parents can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555","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=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13467,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions\/13467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}