{"id":5500,"date":"2013-04-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/26\/things-i-observed-over-the-brim-of-my-coffee-cup\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T20:02:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T20:02:31","slug":"things-i-observed-over-the-brim-of-my-coffee-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/things-i-observed-over-the-brim-of-my-coffee-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Observed Over the Brim of My Coffee Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t1. Turn Microsoft Outlook off before<\/em> hosting a WebEx meeting (bake-table reminders, no!).<\/p>\n

\n\t2. Take your potty breaks during chargeable hours (5:01 p.m. is too late).<\/p>\n

\n\t3. Never, ever turn over or pick up stray laundry items from the basement without spousal reinforcement (hairy spiders!).<\/p>\n

\n\t4. Always cast your eyes down while sitting in the bleachers during a swim meet, unless you want to volunteer for a five-hour chunk of time (awful, I know, but…).<\/p>\n

\n\t5. Write fake<\/strike> reality TV script about swim parents at the Y and make a small fortune (ka-ching!).<\/p>\n

\n\t6. Leave family room five minutes before the end of Toy Story 3<\/em> (Kleenex!).<\/p>\n

\n\t7. Admit to yourself that Katniss-style braids don’t work on your daughter’s American Girl doll (duh, reality check).<\/p>\n

\n\t8. Accept that a certain kitchen mop is almost always guaranteed to be out of cleaning solution, pads, batteries or all three when floor is at its stickiest (is that apple juice?).<\/p>\n

\n\t9. Try not to outdo your kid in the nonexistent Lego building competition (that pile of bricks looks nothing like the Eiffel Tower blueprint in your head).<\/p>\n

\n\t10. Marvel at the simplicity of it all (life in five-minute coffee break segments is good after all).<\/p>\n

\n\tMarion Kase is a Berks County, PA mom of two. This post is adapted from her blog, <\/em>Helicopter-Caterpillar.<\/em><\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Random morning observations of a working swim mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[15605,15603,15608,15607,15602,15604,15606],"yoast_head":"\nThings I Observed Over the Brim of My Coffee Cup - Metrokids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Random morning observations of a working swim mom.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/things-i-observed-over-the-brim-of-my-coffee-cup\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Things I Observed Over the Brim of My Coffee Cup - Metrokids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Random morning observations of a working swim mom.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/things-i-observed-over-the-brim-of-my-coffee-cup\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Metrokids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-04-26T06:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-16T20:02:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/marionlego.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"307\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MK Staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"MK Staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/things-i-observed-over-the-brim-of-my-coffee-cup\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/things-i-observed-over-the-brim-of-my-coffee-cup\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"MK Staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e57323642027d183d526ad194735aa02\"},\"headline\":\"Things I Observed Over the Brim of My Coffee Cup\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-26T06:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-16T20:02:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/things-i-observed-over-the-brim-of-my-coffee-cup\/\"},\"wordCount\":229,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/things-i-observed-over-the-brim-of-my-coffee-cup\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/marionlego.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"braids on American Girl doll\",\"coffee break observations\",\"Helicopter-Caterpillar\",\"Marion Kase\",\"mom observations\",\"swim parents\",\"top 10 lists\"],\"articleSection\":[\"MomSpeak\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/things-i-observed-over-the-brim-of-my-coffee-cup\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/things-i-observed-over-the-brim-of-my-coffee-cup\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/things-i-observed-over-the-brim-of-my-coffee-cup\/\",\"name\":\"Things I Observed Over the Brim of My Coffee Cup - 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