{"id":1605,"date":"2010-08-22T22:20:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T02:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2010-08-22T22:20:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T02:20:38","slug":"different-strokes-for-different-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2010\/08\/different-strokes-for-different-folks.html","title":{"rendered":"Different Strokes for Different Folks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is my last night with a six-year-old boy. And my last few days with a four-year-old girl. I&#8217;ve told them both they could do whatever they want on their birthdays.<\/p>\n<p>The girl gave it lots of thought. &#8220;I want to go to the Res. And if it&#8217;s rainy, then I want to go see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.org\/exhibitions\/sub.asp?key=15&amp;subkey=10331\">fashion show at the MFA<\/a>. Or maybe see a movie! I think MFA and then if there&#8217;s time, go see a movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The boy also gave it some thought. &#8220;What&#8217;s it going to be?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;We could go to the Res, head to the Museum of Science, go to the movies, do whatever you&#8217;d like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He came up with his plan a couple of days ago. &#8220;I know what I want to do. I want to stay home and play Wii all day. And stay in my pajamas until dinner time.&#8221; Done.<\/p>\n<p>Both of them have discovered Chicken Yakitori, so on both Monday and Wednesday we are headed to the only Asian restaurant in town that serves Chicken Yakitori. But I said to them both, &#8220;You can pick what you have for breakfast and lunch, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pie thinks. &#8220;Um, I want Chicken Yakitori for dinner, and I want&#8230; only fruits and vegetables for breakfast and lunch!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay,&#8221; I say. &#8220;What do you want, Doodles?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hmm,&#8221; he starts. &#8220;Let&#8217;s see. For breakfast I want hot dogs. For lunch, I&#8217;d like a steak with barbecue sauce. And Chicken Yakitori, or course, for dinner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I told him I&#8217;d be willing to compromise. Eggs and bacon for breakfast. I pointed out that I really am not a great griller of steaks, and that I don&#8217;t think I could do one justice, so he agreed to hamburgers for lunch. A return to Camp Carnivore for the boy.<\/p>\n<p>My babies. All grown up and becoming their own people. Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is my last night with a six-year-old boy. And my last few days with a four-year-old girl. I&#8217;ve told them both they could do whatever they want on their birthdays. The girl gave it lots of thought. &#8220;I want to go to the Res. And if it&#8217;s rainy, then I want to go see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,3,5],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthday","tag-doodles","tag-pie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}