{"id":970,"date":"2009-06-25T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2009-06-24T20:09:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T03:09:44","slug":"hit-the-road-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Hit the Road Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Love Daddy’s tie on him.?? Wish I would have gotten more of this truck but Tanner was at the end of his rope and it was tooooo hot.?? He cowboyed up though and gave me a typical sweet Tanner grin for this one.<\/p>\n

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Have I mentioned that Ray Charles “Hit the Road Jack” is Ty’s favorite song lately??? Grandma introduced him to that.?? He loves the “What you say?” part.<\/p>\n

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Tonight I walked over to the park with the kids.?? It was a bit warm but they really wanted to get out.?? The boys wanted to take their shirts off because of the heat and Ty was AMAZED that I let him walk around with “just tummies”!<\/p>\n

Met an older woman while I was there and had an interesting conversation.?? I love it when God sends people my way if even a minute.?? I love to meet new people and jabber with them.?? Often times people are in dire need of an ear for just a moment.?? Someone – even a stranger – to listen – to validate – to love.?? This was the case.?? Within about 45 seconds she dove into the deepest of life issues and hurts.???? We had a good conversation and I was thankful that we had those few moments.<\/p>\n

While we were talking, she said something that just thrilled me to pieces on two levels.<\/p>\n

Quote:?? You look way too young to have all those kids!<\/p>\n

Okay this was such a great statement on so many levels.?? See why I liked her??? LOL.???? The first bonus doesn’t need to be mentioned – it’s obvious.?? The second should be mentioned.?? She said ALL THOSE kids.?? I – Me – I – have ALL THOSE KIDS!!!?? Isn’t it wonderful??????????? Three doesn’t really qualify as “all those” but I loved it anyhow.?? The conversation continued like this…<\/p>\n

Doni – Well actually we waited a long time to build our family and I am plenty old enough to have all those kids.?? I am 36.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Woman – You are kidding!?? I was guessing you to be early 20’s!<\/p>\n

Note to my good friend Tom Simpson (Kristi can read this and relay the message).?? You were so totally right.?? Getting my hair dyed today made all the difference!?? I lost darn near 20 years!!!!!?? AMAZING!!! Hee hee!<\/p>\n

I have to admit to being quite disappointed when she later told me that she has severe cataracts and can’t even read anymore.?? :(?????????? In that case, I should be grateful, that she didn’t see the sparkle leap out of my eye, the downcast pout, and the slow saunter back home.?? The 20 years I lost all jumped right back on my back.?? Such is life.???? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love Daddy’s tie on him.?? Wish I would have gotten more of this truck but Tanner was at the end of his rope and it was tooooo hot.?? He cowboyed up though and gave me a typical sweet Tanner grin for this one. Have I mentioned that Ray Charles “Hit the Road Jack” is Ty’s […]<\/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-970","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\/970","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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}