{"id":279,"date":"2008-08-11T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/08\/the-mm-loop.html"},"modified":"2008-08-11T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T13:53:00","slug":"the-mm-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/08\/the-mm-loop.html","title":{"rendered":"The M&amp;M Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had one of those bizarre circular conversations with my daughter. As I mentioned previously, I bought a bag of M&Ms; to keep handy for when Jasmine comes over. However, her mother mentioned to me that they&#8217;re phasing out the M&Ms; at home, and I had a rough weekend, so I figured, What the hell? and I ate Jasmine&#8217;s M&#038;Ms.;<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to today. Jasmine is over for a playdate.<\/p>\n<p>Pie: Mommy, I want to go potty so I can get an M&#038;M.;<br \/>Me: You don&#8217;t get an M&M; when you go potty!<br \/>Pie: I do! When I have a guest over, I get an M&#038;M.;<br \/>Me: No, no, no. That was only when Jasmine was training. She&#8217;s potty trained! No more M&Ms;! <br \/>Pie: I want an M&M;!<br \/>Me: We don&#8217;t have any M&Ms;!<br \/>Pie: Yes we do!<br \/>Me: No, we don&#8217;t. There are no M&Ms; anywhere in this house [and believe me, I&#8217;ve looked in my weaker moments].<br \/>Pie: I <i>need<\/i> an M&M;!!<br \/>Me: We don&#8217;t have any M&Ms;! When you get off the potty, I can show you.<br \/>Pie: No. Show me now. Bring them here and show me.<br \/>Me: But we don&#8217;t have any for me to bring. There&#8217;s nothing for me to bring.<br \/>Pie: Yes there is! Bring me the M&Ms; to show me that we don&#8217;t have any!<\/p>\n<p>After a few more rounds of this, I take her to the kitchen and open the cabinet.<br \/>Me: See?<br \/>Pie, shocked: Mommy! There are no M&Ms;!<\/p>\n<p>Riiiight. There are no M&#038;Ms.; Although come to think of it, I could really use some myself right about now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had one of those bizarre circular conversations with my daughter. As I mentioned previously, I bought a bag of M&Ms; to keep handy for when Jasmine comes over. However, her mother mentioned to me that they&#8217;re phasing out the M&Ms; at home, and I had a rough weekend, so I figured, What the [&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":[5],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}