{"id":149,"date":"2005-05-10T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2006-01-16T18:02:19","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T23:02:19","slug":"Help-Im-surrounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2005\/Help-Im-surrounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day Mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, Mother’s Day was something else this year! Both Gram and Grammy came to visit for the week, which included my birthday, Mother’s Day, and Reiley’s 9th birthday. That’s a lot of celebrating! <\/p>\n

Mum and I went out to JC Penney’s to shop using her gift certificate last night, and she picked up a nice pink cardigan. In classic form, she managed to talk me into shopping for myself as well. I grabbed supplies for the upcoming Indian Princess Spring Outing (next weekend, yikes!) and a holster for my new Treo. We even ate in the food court, it was fun!<\/p>\n

Also planted a couple of trees for Andrea, and now we’re ramping up for the big birthday, tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, Mother’s Day was something else this year! Both Gram and Grammy came to visit for the week, which included my birthday, Mother’s Day, and Reiley’s 9th birthday. That’s a lot of celebrating! Mum and I went out to JC Penney’s to shop using her gift certificate last night, and she picked up a nice … Continue reading Mother’s Day Mayhem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-2p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":286,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/another-packed-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":149,"position":0},"title":"Another packed weekend","author":"m","date":"May 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Since Reiley's birthday was on Mother's day this year, a deal was brokered to move Mother's Day to Saturday and let Rei have Sunday all to herself. 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