{"id":6707,"date":"2020-07-04T20:20:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T00:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2020-07-04T20:20:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T00:20:30","slug":"from-dresses-to-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=6707","title":{"rendered":"From Dresses to Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" The girls regularly wore dresses all through last summer.\u00a0 Even when many girls their age stopped wearing dresses, my girls still continued.\u00a0 Dress wearing subsided some this past school year and then came to a sudden halt with the start of COVID 19 and the cancellation of in-person school.\u00a0 The girls started playing on the swing set and riding bikes daily; bike riding while wearing a dress was problematic as the dress would drag on the back wheel. \u00a0Pants and shorts became the norm.\u00a0 When it came time for a few new summer clothes, shorts and T-shirts were in order, not dresses in years past.\u00a0 I remember thinking how cool it was that dresses were still their norm last summer and knowing that at some point soon the time would come that they would be over them.<\/p>\n

The time came!\u00a0 And with that the July 4th<\/sup> outfits that they had been wearing since 2016 (yes, you read that correctly….2016…we certainly sized up and got our monies worth) were finally retired.\u00a0 They each got a fourth of July T-shirt and matched it with some shorts or pants.\u00a0 I did size up so there is a good chance these will be their Fourth of July outfits for years to come.\"\" \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The girls regularly wore dresses all through last summer.\u00a0 Even when many girls their age stopped wearing dresses, my girls still continued.\u00a0 Dress wearing subsided some this past school year and then came to a sudden halt with the start … Continue reading →<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707","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=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}