{"id":11360,"date":"2016-02-29T12:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2016-02-29T17:11:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:11:13","slug":"its-time-for-a-toy-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/2016\/its-time-for-a-toy-purge\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time for a toy purge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a difficult post for me to write because I thrive on things being neat and tidy. My Kids are far from neat and tidy but somehow we&#8217;ve managed to find a balance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kid #3 came along and I&#8217;ve been struggling. I Thought it would get better. I thought it would get easier.<\/p>\n<p>This mama is tired of messes.<\/p>\n<p>This mama is tired of clutter.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve always had a one toy at a time rule. It doesn&#8217;t usually work but it definitely helps maintain some order.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan is breaking that rule over and over again while I&#8217;m trying to educate his brother. Sure, he sits in for a little bit, but he is by far our most active child.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s gotten worse about messes as time goes on and after his latest mess, I can&#8217;t take it any longer.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t help that he has all of his brothers&#8217; old toys. Yes, That&#8217;s our fault.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_9331.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_9331.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;I Can&#8217;t even going to nathan&#8217;s room without wanting to cry, so we are going to start in Lucas&#8217;s room.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t have many toys, mostly Legos and army men,&nbsp;but everything needs to be organized so he can see it and find it.<\/p>\n<p>I have a general idea of what I hope to do with Nathan&#8217;s room. I&#8217;ll Keep you updated with the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a difficult post for me to write because I thrive on things being neat and tidy. My Kids are far from neat and tidy but somehow we&#8217;ve managed to find a balance.&nbsp; Kid #3 came along and I&#8217;ve been struggling. I Thought it would get better. I thought it would get easier. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,59,363,352],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-family","8":"category-home-and-food","9":"category-organization","10":"category-tour-our-home","11":"entry"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_9329-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zEve-2Xe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11361,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions\/11361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}