{"id":1833,"date":"2011-06-24T20:32:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T00:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2011-06-25T08:12:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T12:12:59","slug":"no-more-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2011\/06\/no-more-pencils.html","title":{"rendered":"No More Pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning, I yell at the boy, &#8220;Can you please move it? Why are you so slow? Can you please walk <em>with<\/em> us?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today he skipped to school. A full block ahead of us. Skipped. Literally. Looked the crossing guard in the eye. Said, &#8220;Hi!&#8221; Ran to his side of the building before I could even give him a smooch good-bye.<\/p>\n<p>Ah. The last day of school.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday we had the end-of-year performances and the class slide shows. When Doodles class sang, &#8220;Take me out of the second grade\/ It has been a good year&#8230; For it&#8217;s one, two, three months and\/ Then we&#8217;ll be in third grade!&#8221; I just melted into a mess.<\/p>\n<p>And the girl. Oh that girl:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/kindergarten.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1833]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1834\" title=\"kindergarten\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/kindergarten-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/kindergarten-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/kindergarten-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/kindergarten.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our after-school plans involved swimming and sand play. Our after-school reality included cold and rain. So instead we invited a handful of friends over for an after-school make-your-own-sundae and mojito party (the idea, of course, was to make sure the kids got drunk enough to let us moms have our ice cream in peace).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_0010.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1833]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_0010-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC_0010\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_0010-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_0010-685x1024.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fitting end to a crazy year.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, Summer. We&#8217;ve been waiting for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning, I yell at the boy, &#8220;Can you please move it? Why are you so slow? Can you please walk with us?&#8221; Today he skipped to school. A full block ahead of us. Skipped. Literally. Looked the crossing guard in the eye. Said, &#8220;Hi!&#8221; Ran to his side of the building before I could [&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":[3,5,43],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doodles","tag-pie","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","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=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}