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