{"id":7744,"date":"2012-03-23T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=7744"},"modified":"2012-03-23T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:38:12","slug":"excuses-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/excuses-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuses, Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have about a million reasons why I haven&#8217;t been blogging lately&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>My husband was out of town for 5 days.<\/p>\n<p>Spring Break.<\/p>\n<p>The Picky Apple, The Little Apple and I all had <em>The Plague<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Busy watching Mad Men. \u00c2\u00a0(Slow to get on board with that one&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Busy watching Downton Abbey. (Ditto.)<\/p>\n<p>Busy re-reading The Hunger Games series and dreaming of how fun it would be to go see the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Working out. \u00c2\u00a0About 10 couples we know are doing a Biggest Loser Challenge from March 1-May 31. \u00c2\u00a0We log our weights and get ranked weekly. \u00c2\u00a0No pressure like posting your weight publicly for all the world to see. \u00c2\u00a0The Picky Apple is currently in 3rd place, and I&#8217;m somewhere in the middle of the pack.<\/p>\n<p>Doing laundry and piling it up all over the place. \u00c2\u00a0Who has time for folding and hanging things up?!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/project-life\/\">Project Life<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Week 11, and still loving it!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and probably the biggest excuse of all&#8230;life with a new baby. \u00c2\u00a0When do they stop being newborns? \u00c2\u00a0Slingshot&#8217;s 2 1\/2 months old now, but we&#8217;re definitely still adjusting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Slingshot2months2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7747\" title=\"Slingshot2months\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Slingshot2months2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Slingshot2months2.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Slingshot2months2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Slingshot2months21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7748\" title=\"Slingshot2months2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Slingshot2months21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Slingshot2months21.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Slingshot2months21-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/excuses-excuses\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have about a million reasons why I haven&#8217;t been blogging lately&#8230;. My husband was out of town for 5 days. Spring Break. The Picky Apple, The Little Apple and I all had The Plague. Busy watching Mad Men. \u00c2\u00a0(Slow to get on board with that one&#8230;) Busy watching Downton Abbey. (Ditto.) Busy re-reading The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7750,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions\/7750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}