{"id":358,"date":"2007-05-10T09:29:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickyboots.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2007-05-10T09:29:55","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:29:55","slug":"like-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kickyboots.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Like Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kickyboots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/phpegzp9tam.jpg\" title=\"phpegzp9tam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kickyboots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/phpegzp9tam.jpg\" alt=\"phpegzp9tam.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Before she left this morning my mom gave Avelyn a kiss on her forehead and as she drew her lips away they left a coral lipstick mark.\u00c2\u00a0 I have not washed it off yet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It reminds me of the ones my mom would leave me with before she and my dad would go out for an evening and leave us with a sitter.\u00c2\u00a0 My mom would be wearing her fox-fur coat with the fuzzy pom-poms and she would tickle my face with them, then give me a strong kiss on the cheek, making sure to leave a lipstick print.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I wish she didn&#8217;t live so far away.\u00c2\u00a0 Having her here for the past few days has been such a treat for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I went out in the morning and came home to a house that had been cleaned from top to bottom.\u00c2\u00a0 She had vacuumed, cleaned out my stove burners (and let me tell you, it had been a <em>while<\/em>), scrubbed my scummy tub, and spit-shined the kitchen tile.\u00c2\u00a0 She was there to get up with me at 2 am when my feverish baby was sweaty and screaming; she held her so I could rest.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It is so strange to think that in 25 years I will be doing these same things for Avelyn.\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;ll be a grown woman, possibly with children, and it will be my pleasure to scrape grime off of her toilet seats, because she will always be my baby, and I would do anything for her.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Thanks, Mom, for babying me this week.\u00c2\u00a0 I appreciate it more than you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before she left this morning my mom gave Avelyn a kiss on her forehead and as she drew her lips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-matters","category-my-girl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kickyboots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kickyboots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kickyboots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickyboots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickyboots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickyboots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kickyboots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickyboots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickyboots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}