{"id":1795,"date":"2015-06-14T21:53:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T01:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2018-12-29T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T18:27:00","slug":"just-the-seven-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"Just The Seven Of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As Justin and I ate dinner last weekend, I looked over at him and said, &#8220;when did this happen.&#8221; \u00a0At the kitchen table was not only me and him, but also our three little girls and our two &#8220;teenagers&#8221; a.ka. our au pairs who take care of our three girls while Justin and I work. \u00a0We truly consider them family. \u00a0I said to him, &#8220;seriously, just four years ago it was him and me (okay so I did have two babies in my belly and I was nearing bed rest so I probably wasn&#8217;t doing the cooking but we were still eating dinner together at our dining room table just the &#8220;two&#8221; of us). \u00a0And here we were now just four years later and we are a family of seven.&#8221; \u00a0 Even though we are in transition and have an overlap in au pairs and will only have one living with us soon, we are an extended family of 7! \u00a0I never envisioned myself as having a big family, but I think it looks good on us:)<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1796\" title=\"_MG_0446\" src=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MG_0446-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MG_0446-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MG_0446-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MG_0446-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Justin and I ate dinner last weekend, I looked over at him and said, &#8220;when did this happen.&#8221; \u00a0At the kitchen table was not only me and him, but also our three little girls and our two &#8220;teenagers&#8221; a.ka. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=1795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}