{"id":21,"date":"2007-07-27T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2007-08-21T22:17:45","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T03:17:45","slug":"not-so-smart-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Not-so-smart cookie&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Required background knowledge:  The local bakery in Bedford makes the most amazing cookies.  They are soft, buttery sugar cookies, coated in crisp red icing and decorated with a white pair of eyes and a smile.  Delicious and cheerful, they are a favorite treat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lillian has always been a bit &#8220;difficult&#8221; when she&#8217;s low on sleep &#8212; either needing a nap, or being woken up early.  This morning was one of those bad ones, since she stayed up talking to herself for a couple hours after being put in bed.  The usual bribery, threats, and so on ensued, until she was dressed and in the car.<\/p>\n<p>To tide her over until she got breakfast at school, we said she could have a smiley face cookie if she apologized for being incredibly rude and difficult while getting dressed.  She was still tired and sad, but willingly apologized and got hugs and kisses.  Then, I pulled the cookie out of the bag&#8230; and it had a frown instead of a smile!<\/p>\n<p>This is something that the bakery does on every one in three dozen cookies or so, and usually Lillian finds it quite funny.  However, when a toddler is feeling sad and expects to see a cheerful expression on her snack, handing her a grumpy treat instead does not go over well.  She nearly burst into tears all over again, and Brett and I both felt terrible &#8212; it looked like we weren&#8217;t as happy with her as we really were.<\/p>\n<p>To help make it up to her, we&#8217;re going to be stopping by the bakery after I pick her up from school and get a fresh batch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/image00075.jpg\" title=\"Smile!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/image00075.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Smile!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Required background knowledge: The local bakery in Bedford makes the most amazing cookies. They are soft, buttery sugar cookies, coated in crisp red icing and decorated with a white pair of eyes and a smile. Delicious and cheerful, they are a favorite treat. Lillian has always been a bit &#8220;difficult&#8221; when she&#8217;s low on sleep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lillian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}