{"id":709,"date":"2008-06-17T08:47:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2008-06-17T08:47:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:47:18","slug":"amanda-collection-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Collection V"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I was a teenager I had a cockatiel named Dizzy.?? She used to make me crazy because she would try to be quiet for me in the morning but if I looked at her she would realize I was up and start jabbering.?? I fell into the habit of telling her to “shut up” every morning and before I knew it I was waking to my pet telling me to “shut up” first thing in the morning.?? She knew quite a few words – that was my least favorite :).<\/p>\n

I finally gave her to an older woman in our church, ironically named “Birdie”.?? Those two were perfect companions.<\/p>\n

This morning I was reflecting on Dizzy while observing my daughter.?? You know Tori is awake in the morning when she starts blowing rasberries. That is usually the point of no return.?? She is up for real.?? The rasberries turn into chattering pretty shortly.?? She is a happy morning baby so she is a nice little alarm.?? BUT if I decide I am not ready to get up, I MUST avoid eye contact with her.?? She is only happy when she thinks I am asleep.?? If she realizes that I too am awake and am ignoring her, out comes the pouty lips and her wailing soon follows.???? There is no doubt who is in charge around here right now and it is most assuredly not me.?? :)??<\/p>\n

I have wonderful mornings around here actually.?? The two kids that wake up – Tori and Tanner – are TOTAL morning kids.?? The child that is NOT the morning kid, sleeps in.?? That makes us all happy.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a teenager I had a cockatiel named Dizzy.?? She used to make me crazy because she would try to be quiet for me in the morning but if I looked at her she would realize I was up and start jabbering.?? I fell into the habit of telling her to “shut up” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}