{"id":439,"date":"2008-08-17T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2008\/08\/a-little-dab-will-do-ya\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T21:22:00","slug":"a-little-dab-will-do-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/a-little-dab-will-do-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Dab Will Do Ya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susansenator.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/DSC_2941-736599.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susansenator.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/DSC_2941-736482.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I got all sad all over again because Nat is just so confused.  He keeps saying, &#8220;See Mommy today.&#8221;  Stuff like that.  I dropped him off at the House and I was just crying and crying, already missing his velvety face and haystack hair.<\/p>\n<p>The House people tell me that he does great, participates happily in everything they do &#8212; soccer game, semi-pro baseball game, food shopping, serving dinner; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icaboston.org\/\">they even went to the ICA<\/a> the other night, and he smiled the whole time &#8212; but still he keeps repeating the order of the days as if he is trying to make the answer change.  Maybe it&#8217;s perseveration, and something I can redirect?  I tried that today on the phone with him and it seemed to make him stop and think.<\/p>\n<p>But how do I know for sure?<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t know for sure.  I&#8217;m getting used to that.  It is now a dull ache, rather than a flu-like sick feeling.  But still, there is a very tall thin hole in my family&#8217;s heart right now.  He was home Friday night so that he could go to a friend&#8217;s birthday party, and he was quiet and contemplative the whole time.  It made me kind of sad, because it just doesn&#8217;t seem like Nat.  And then, finally, I heard just one, &#8220;Heeyume.&#8221;  I looked up, and he was smiling.  Just a little dab of silly talk goes a long way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got all sad all over again because Nat is just so confused. He keeps saying, &#8220;See Mommy today.&#8221; Stuff like that. I dropped him off at the House and I was just crying and crying, already missing his velvety face and haystack hair. The House people tell me that he does great, participates happily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-75","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}