{"id":10671,"date":"2016-06-17T20:56:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T01:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=10671"},"modified":"2016-06-17T20:56:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T01:56:58","slug":"happy-early-birthday-present-maddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=10671","title":{"rendered":"Happy early Birthday present, Maddie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim and I had been discussing getting Madison a swing for her 1st Birthday coming up for a while now. \u00a0Whenever we visit a friend that has a toddler swing she LOVES it, so we decided it would be worth it to buy one. \u00a0Plus we have the added bonus of being able to use it for another kid in about a year&#8211;so we would get our money&#8217;s worth. \u00a0So, we started looking and the one we really liked was at Menards. \u00a0But the catch was the cost = $80. \u00a0While I love my children, and we\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">would<\/span> get our money&#8217;s worth, I was still having a hard time swallowing that cost.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The kids and I had stopped in at Once Upon a Child (a used kids clothing\/stuff store) to buy some shorts and swimsuits now that it&#8217;s officially summer. \u00a0I was standing by the dressing room door waiting for the kids to show me yet another pair of shorts and turned around to see a swing. \u00a0Not just any swing, but the EXACT swing I had been eyeing at Menards. \u00a0I looked it over and it was dirty but otherwise in stellar shape. \u00a0But wait! \u00a0I haven&#8217;t told you the cost! \u00a0(Wheeeeee!)<\/p>\n<p>$10.<\/p>\n<p>Yup! \u00a0TEN dollars! \u00a0I was ecstatic!<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say I bought it and we installed it on the swing set this afternoon (I know, it&#8217;s a little early for her Birthday, but let&#8217;s be serious&#8230; she doesn&#8217;t know the difference. \u00a0\ud83d\ude09 \u00a0) \u00a0And she LOVES it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/maddies-new-swing-R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10673\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/maddies-new-swing-R.jpg\" alt=\"maddie's new swing R\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/maddies-new-swing-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/maddies-new-swing-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim and I had been discussing getting Madison a swing for her 1st Birthday coming up for a while now. \u00a0Whenever we visit a friend that has a toddler swing she LOVES it, so we decided it would be worth it to buy one. \u00a0Plus we have the added bonus of being able to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10674,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions\/10674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}