{"id":1083,"date":"2009-07-23T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/07\/are-we-having-fun-yet.html"},"modified":"2009-07-23T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T09:00:07","slug":"are-we-having-fun-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/07\/are-we-having-fun-yet.html","title":{"rendered":"Are We Having Fun Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m somewhere in Michigan City, just outside of Chicago, and I have to say: although <a href=\"http:\/\/herbadmother.com\/2009\/07\/the-road-hard-travelled\/\">I wept more than few times yesterday<\/a>, and although the coffee in this Super 8 motel is reason enough to weep further, I&#8217;m kind of enjoying myself.<\/p>\n<p>Which, of course, I expected. Just not this soon. I had fully expected to remain more or less <a href=\"http:\/\/herbadmother.com\/2009\/07\/the-road-hard-travelled\/\">choked up through most of yesterday<\/a> (which, yes, until a Chocolate Chip Cookie Molten Cake a la mode set me straight) and then to transition into full anxiety today. And while I did get choked up while texting with my husband this morning about the babies, and while I am experiencing the lower-gut rumbling tremors of imminent anxiety, I&#8217;m still having fun.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s just going to get better. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mamapop.com\/mamapop\/2009\/07\/this-weekend-were-going-to-party-like-its-1999-give-or-take-a-decade.html\">MUCH better<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So if you see me at BlogHer <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/07\/geeks-of-a-feather-flock-in-the-corners.html\">looking panicked<\/a>? Be sure to come up and remind me: THIS IS FUN. YOU&#8217;RE HAVING FUN.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll do the same for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m somewhere in Michigan City, just outside of Chicago, and I have to say: although I wept more than few times yesterday, and although the coffee in this Super 8 motel is reason enough to weep further, I&#8217;m kind of enjoying myself. Which, of course, I expected. Just not this soon. 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