{"id":9263,"date":"2015-05-22T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T19:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2015-05-22T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T19:50:43","slug":"feeling-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=9263","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Accomplished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when we bought our lawn mower last year I was disappointed that we had to buy one with the capability to be self-propelled.\u00a0 I liked the idea of needing to use my own strength.\u00a0 But it was the only one that also collapses and and can store in a much smaller space which was the real draw for buying that mower.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I felt like using the self-propelled level was somehow &#8220;cheating.&#8221;\u00a0 I know, I know.\u00a0 It&#8217;s crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, fast forward to this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As I waddled along mowing the lawn I was grateful for that little lever.\u00a0 It helped make mowing the lawn SO much easier.\u00a0 I&#8217;m proud that I was able to mow the lawn on my own at 8 months pregnant.\u00a0 And even though it took me almost twice as long as normal, I still did it!\u00a0 (And don&#8217;t worry, for those of you who think I&#8217;m overdoing it, I did take a short break in the middle.) And we agreed that I need to mow at very low key times of the day so not many people see me mowing.\u00a0 As to not draw attention to myself.\u00a0 When I was pregnant with Josiah (and quite large) a car actually slowed down and took a picture of me.\u00a0 I guess they had never seen a pregnant lady mow the lawn?\u00a0 Anyway, Tim&#8217;s request was that I keep the mowing on the &#8220;down-low&#8221; this time.\u00a0 Hehe!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny how things change over time.\u00a0 In fact I have to like the self-propelled feature more than I thought I would (last year when I was able to mow at a normal pace).\u00a0 I&#8217;m able to go up the hills so much easier and I&#8217;m able to restart after turning around really fast.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically I only need to mow 4 more times before the baby arrives.\u00a0 I guess that is, unless I go over my due date, which is highly likely. \u00a0 But I like mowing, so it&#8217;s not really something I dread.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always liked mowing.\u00a0 It feels so nice to look out and see those straight stripes across the sweet smelling grass.\u00a0 The only week I&#8217;m taking it super easy is this coming week because I REALLY don&#8217;t want to have the baby this next week with my recital coming up.\u00a0 But after June 1st, I&#8217;m game to have the baby anytime! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when we bought our lawn mower last year I was disappointed that we had to buy one with the capability to be self-propelled.\u00a0 I liked the idea of needing to use my own strength.\u00a0 But it was the only one that also collapses and and can store in a much smaller space which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263"}],"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=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9268,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions\/9268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}