{"id":8273,"date":"2024-02-13T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=8273"},"modified":"2024-03-03T10:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T16:26:19","slug":"almost-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/13\/almost-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was just thinking about this kid this morning, as I lay in Oliver’s bed to wake him up (he likes to snuggle awake, which I will take as long as possible). I adore Griffin as an almost 15 year old, and I continue to be amazed at the person he is becoming. He is remarkable in all ways, and I love growing with him. I have no desire for him to be little again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do desire to be the mom I am now to the kid he was then. I know so much more than I did then about myself, about children, about life. I want to scoop that little boy up and let his little head fit perfectly into the space between my neck and my shoulder and whisper to him: I love you. I love you. I love you.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Facebook memory from 2011 of Griffin discovering his pockets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just thinking about this kid this morning, as I lay in Oliver’s bed to wake him up (he likes to snuggle awake, which I will take as long as possible). I adore Griffin as an almost 15 year old, and I continue to be amazed at the person he is becoming. He is … Continue reading Almost 15<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,54],"tags":[79,51,114],"class_list":["post-8273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griffin","category-photo","tag-griffin","tag-pictures","tag-sarah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8274,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions\/8274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}