{"id":370,"date":"2005-10-18T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2005-10-18T22:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T22:07:00","slug":"for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2005\/10\/18\/for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"for real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think my kids aren&#8217;t for real.  Like twice this week when they&#8217;ve been given candy at school and they&#8217;ve brought it home to share.  E got some candy in her orcehstra class.  She got 4 pieces and said the Twix for me (knowing it was my favorite ) and did the same with everyone else&#8217;s favorite treat.  Today C&#8217;s sub gave him dumdums and tootsie rolls.  He brought me the tootsie (yum) and figured out which flavor of dumdum that everyone else would most like.  As I savored my tootsie roll I thought to myself about all the times I&#8217;d been given cookies &#038; candies at school.  And I knew that NOT ONCE did I ever bring any home to share with my sibs, much less my parents.  The thought wouldn&#8217;t even have ever occurred to me.  Instead, I stashed away any extras in places where I was sure only I would ever find them.<\/p>\n<p>Yet for my kids, they wouldn&#8217;t be able to enjoy such bounty without sharing it with the rest of us. <\/p>\n<p>Can you see why I wonder if: a) C&amp;E aren&#8217;t really real children, but are aliens modeled on child characters from 50&#8217;s sitcoms, or b) they are deities incarnate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think my kids aren&#8217;t for real. Like twice this week when they&#8217;ve been given candy at school and they&#8217;ve brought it home to share. E got some candy in her orcehstra class. 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