{"id":167,"date":"2016-06-15T20:46:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2022-11-30T03:51:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T03:51:58","slug":"the-day-i-never-thought-would-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/2016\/06\/the-day-i-never-thought-would-come.html","title":{"rendered":"The Day I NEVER Thought Would Come"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s here. I don\u2019t know how- but we\u2019ve made it. I am now the proud owner of a fully potty trained child! NO MORE POTTY TRAINING!<\/p>\n

I feel like I should whisper it as I glance side-eyed at my son, waiting for him to drop a load in his Paw Patrol underwear. But, it hasn\u2019t happened. It\u2019s like last week he up and decided that he was big enough to utilize the potty at all times. No big deal. Even though it has taken what seems like forever to potty train him. However it seems there was, in fact, no training going on.<\/p>\n

Maybe him training us to be patient\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve shared my\u00a0Potty Training Woes<\/a>\u00a0before. I\u2019ve even mentioned the\u00a0Dreaded Poo Strike<\/a>, of which I\u2019m sure we haven\u2019t seen the last of. So I thought this would be more of a big deal. A little more pomp. But, it was just an ordinary day- and he went to the bathroom on his own, without prompting, and \u201cwent\u201d. He looked at us like we were crazy for making such a fuss. And he\u2019s been doing it ever since.<\/p>\n

Motherhood, parenting in general, is funny that way. Something seems to take an eternity- colic for example, lasts 11 million years, and then one day that stage is over and we\u2019re standing here dumbfounded. Wondering how in the heck this little guy is growing up. With, what seems like, little help from us.<\/p>\n

I hate to be the Mother that says, \u201cenjoy this stage, it won\u2019t last forever.\u201d But, here I am playing that role. I used to hate \u201cThat Mother\u201d- especially deep in the muck\u00a0of no-sleep newbornhood.<\/p>\n

I have become\u00a0her<\/strong>. Cuddling tiny babies,\u00a0telling their mothers to slow down<\/a>. Rocking them to sleep and breathing in their powdery scent.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m a\u00a0Mom of One<\/a>\u2013 so these stages are it for me. One time dealing with no sleep, one colicky infant, one round of potty training. The end of each\u00a0stage has me waxing nostalgic.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m okay with it. I keep watching my baby grow every day, wondering who he\u2019ll become. And right now I am going to enjoy not having to buy diapers EVER AGAIN! (Hopefully until I\u2019m 90 or so.)<\/p>\n

What stage lasted forever for you? Which one would you encourage your fellow Mothers to try to enjoy more?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s here. I don\u2019t know how- but we\u2019ve made it. I am now the proud owner of a fully potty trained child! NO MORE POTTY TRAINING! I feel like I should whisper it as I glance side-eyed at my son, waiting for him to drop a load in his Paw Patrol underwear. But, it hasn\u2019t happened. It\u2019s like last week he up and decided that he was big enough to utilize the potty at all times. No big deal. Even though it has taken what seems like forever to potty train him. However it seems there was, in fact, no <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mommy","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}