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I am sitting on my couch with my laptop, trying to find the words for a first post. \u00a0It feels like it should be momentous. \u00a0I made this blog and I thought I had something to say. \u00a0Where are the words now? \u00a0Of course, they could be in hiding because they don’t want to compete with all the words coming from my daughter. \u00a0She has been searching the attic for some stuffed animals she played with when she was smaller and now she is having an ongoing conversation about names for them. \u00a0Have you ever had to come up with a name for a bad guy teddy bear (who knew that was a thing?) when the name has to have something to do with water? \u00a0You would think after ten years of helping her name stuffed animals I would be better at it. \u00a0She did not like my suggestion of Drizzle. \u00a0Imagine that.<\/p>\n

So there you have it, a little snippet of my life. My daughter, teddy bears, my thoughts getting sidetracked by the everyday. \u00a0But that is okay. Because I think that is why I want to do this. \u00a0I want to remember the little things, rant about the annoying things, and have somewhere to discuss the interesting things.<\/p>\n

And the teddy bear? \u00a0She named him Hydro. \u00a0He is the one on the left.<\/p>\n

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I am sitting on my couch with my laptop, trying to find the words for a first post. \u00a0It feels like it should be momentous. \u00a0I made this blog and I thought I had something to say. \u00a0Where are the words now? \u00a0Of course, they could be in hiding because they don’t want to compete with all the words coming from my daughter. \u00a0She has been searching the attic for some stuffed animals she played with when she was smaller and now she is having an ongoing conversation about names for them. \u00a0Have you ever had to come up with a name for a bad guy teddy bear (who knew that was a thing?) when the name has to have something to do with water? \u00a0You would think after ten years of helping her name stuffed animals I would be better at it. \u00a0She did not like my suggestion of Drizzle. \u00a0Imagine that. So there you have it, a little snippet of my life. My daughter, teddy bears, my thoughts getting sidetracked by the everyday. \u00a0But that is okay. Because I think that is why I want to do this. \u00a0I want to remember the little things, rant about the annoying things, and have somewhere to discuss the interesting things. And the teddy bear? \u00a0She named him Hydro. \u00a0He is the one on the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}