{"id":530,"date":"2011-09-16T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T17:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinerw.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2011-09-16T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T17:10:18","slug":"growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/2011\/09\/16\/growing\/","title":{"rendered":"growing"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve had bad luck with children; they’ve all grown up.<\/h4>\n

Christopher Morley<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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One great thing about community is sharing over time – sharing meals together, sharing news on the street, sharing advice, sharing as you and your family grow. My daughter, an only child has benefited from a friend and neighbor sharing her clothes as she has grown over the past five years. This handing down has been great because my daughter gets barely worn stuff, that she likes, and I get to save some money and time by not having to shop for lots of clothes. This sharing thing was going great until this summer. My daughter has grown almost 6″ in the last year. It feels like it all happened this summer. Don’t get me started on her feet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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She is now “the tall one” at school. She is now as tall as our neighbor-friend who is two years older. I look her every day and wonder where did my little girl go. The neighbor-friend’s mom and I now wonder if the clothes-sharing has to go the other direction. <\/p>\n

Because of all her growing, this past month we kept up the sharing and gave my daughter’s stuff to another little girl. Plus, I now have to carve out some time this weekend to go buy longer pants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve had bad luck with children; they’ve all grown up. Christopher Morley Flickr Photo by LadyDragonflyCC One great thing about community is sharing over time – sharing meals together, sharing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-home-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}