{"id":621,"date":"2004-08-04T09:18:18","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2004-08-04T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T16:18:18","slug":"i-can-do-it-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"I can do it myself."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the days when the kids would yell at me, &#8220;Dad! leave me<br \/>\nalone I can do it myself!&#8221;&nbsp; We, I guess it&#8217;s just I now,&nbsp;<br \/>\nhave raised the girls to be in some ways strong and independent.&nbsp;<br \/>\nTo have confidence that they can do things on their own.&nbsp; I think<br \/>\nthat is a good attribute to have in one&#8217;s personality.&nbsp; But there<br \/>\nare times recently when I have found that it&#8217;s not physically possible<br \/>\nfor me to work full time and &#8220;do it myself!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/red\/2004\/08\/04#a3466\">The Redhead talks<\/a><br \/>\nabout not asking for &#8220;stuff&#8221;.&nbsp; I am suffering from the same<br \/>\naffliction.&nbsp; There is a sense that I should be able to take care<br \/>\nof myself and my family.&nbsp; I shouldn&#8217;t have to ask others for<br \/>\nhelp.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure I can make it myself, but I&#8217;m going to give it<br \/>\nmy best.&nbsp; School has started again and we have this week covered<br \/>\nas far as getting to from school and me getting Lindsey to the<br \/>\nrink.&nbsp; Beyond that I&#8217;m not sure how right now how I&#8217;m going to do<br \/>\nit.&nbsp; I will ask for help and have asked for help, and<br \/>\ninterestingly have people asking me for help.&nbsp; It somehow feels<br \/>\nlike I&#8217;m healing and getting back to normal when there are people out<br \/>\nthere having a harder time than I am.&nbsp; But it will be a real<br \/>\nchallenge for me to still work enough hours to keep my job and still be<br \/>\nable to get the girls where they need to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the days when the kids would yell at me, &#8220;Dad! leave me alone I can do it myself!&#8221;&nbsp; We, I guess it&#8217;s just I now,&nbsp; have raised the girls to be in some ways strong and independent.&nbsp; To &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}