{"id":2830,"date":"2011-08-22T14:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T14:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2011-08-22T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T15:07:07","slug":"my-sweet-second-grader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/my-sweet-second-grader\/","title":{"rendered":"My Sweet Second Grader"},"content":{"rendered":"

How in the WORLD do I have a second grader?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I just dropped my sweet little man off at school, and I actually had to tell myself not to cry as the lump formed in the back of my throat.\u00a0 I still can’t handle sending him to school.\u00a0 I really do love to have the little maniac home…with me…even on the days he makes me crazy!\u00a0 Oh well, he’s there, and our lives once again revolve around the school schedule.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Every year I make Preston a pencil cake for the first day of school.\u00a0 It’s no work of art, just something fun to get him excited.\u00a0 We’ll dig into it as soon as he gets home.\u00a0 I plan on doing this every year until my last baby goes to college.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Last night as I was getting ready to make the cake I looked back at Preston’s Kindergarten pics and his First Grade pics…and of course I started crying.\u00a0 How has he grown up so fast?\u00a0 As my mom reminded me the morning…The days pass slowly but the years pass so quickly!\u00a0 So true!<\/p>\n

First day of First Grade<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>First Day of Kindergarten<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Alright, posting those last two pics next to each other has brought the tears.\u00a0 He has grown up so much!\u00a0 I know I’ll blink and he will be in college.<\/p>\n

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Oh, my precious gift…I love you!\u00a0 I am proud of you!\u00a0 I am thankful that you are such a sweet, smart, wild little man.<\/p>\n

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Lord, thank you for Preston!\u00a0 Thank you for how different we are.\u00a0 Thank you for his smart little brain and his amazing athletic ability.\u00a0 Thank you for giving me a strong boy first – to keep me in line.\u00a0 Thank you for his smile and his intense little personality.\u00a0 Thank you for his competitiveness, and I pray that you will help me channel it in a positive direction.\u00a0 Thank you for his desire to learn and to do well.\u00a0 Thank you for his desire to make good decisions and I pray that he will love you and walk with you all the days of his life.\u00a0 Please, Lord, help Preston to use your Godly wisdom and discernment in all decisions and choices he makes.\u00a0 Please bless him with sweet friends that will be good examples and I pray that he will bless others with his example.\u00a0 Please give his teacher patience, strength, and wisdom this year as she guides and teaches Preston and his classmates.\u00a0 Thank you, Lord, for this precious blessing and gift!\u00a0 Thank you for PRESTON! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How in the WORLD do I have a second grader? I just dropped my sweet little man off at school, and I actually had to tell myself not to cry as the lump formed in the back of my throat.\u00a0 I still can’t handle sending him to school.\u00a0 I really do love to have the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}