{"id":86,"date":"2007-07-04T23:24:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T04:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2008-03-16T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T20:01:00","slug":"purge-atory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Purge-atory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2007\/07\/Lily_02June2007_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2007\/07\/Lily_02June2007_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLily can make an ensemble out of anything.<br \/>\nHere she is working on costume ideas<br \/>\n(using florescent orange swim goggles and a lanyard)<br \/>\nfor the next post-apocalyptic Mad Max movie.<br \/>\n02 June 2007<\/p>\n<p>You would not believe the sheer volume of toys, clothes, and shoes that come into\u00c2\u00a0the house when children come into the house.\u00c2\u00a0 It is an avalanche of kid <em>stuff<\/em> that threatens to consume your house.<\/p>\n<p>Carla&#8217;s baby is due in two months.\u00c2\u00a0 I just spent the last week washing all of Lily&#8217;s baby clothes and packing them.\u00c2\u00a0 I went through the toys, packing three trashbags worth of toys to pass onto Carla.\u00c2\u00a0 And the bassinet, swing, crib (along with all the crib accoutrements), carseat, stroller&#8230; so much stuff being passed onto Carla.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, more accurately, so much stuff being\u00c2\u00a0<em>passed out of my house<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I love purging.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel light and free when my house is uncluttered &#8212; <em>stuff<\/em> feels like an iron ball dragging me down into a cold, dark deep.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so happy right now.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m so happy that all that baby stuff is out of my house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lily can make an ensemble out of anything. Here she is working on costume ideas (using florescent orange swim goggles and a lanyard) for the next post-apocalyptic Mad Max movie. 02 June 2007 You would not believe the sheer volume of toys, clothes, and shoes that come into\u00c2\u00a0the house when children come into the house.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surburbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}