{"id":8010,"date":"2020-02-07T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8010"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:04","slug":"fighting-the-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8010","title":{"rendered":"FIGHTING THE FUNK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last weekend I worked myself into a true funk after Sarah&#8217;s (belated) birthday party ended.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200201_105931-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1600\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200202_105308-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1600\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_20200201_144508_016-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"671\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200201_124337-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, the party just left me fighting the funk.My memory often fails me now, but one moment at the end of what must have been an unusually harmonious night ten or eleven years ago (!!) sticks with me: Sarah was still a little one in diapers, just recently arrived at the really fun stage of toddlerhood, and Melissa and I had put her in her crib for the night and had now turned our attention to getting the older three kids to sleep. Samuel, four or five at the time, sat on his bed in his pajamas, fighting back tears.\u00a0&#8220;What&#8217;s wrong, Sammy?&#8221; we asked.\u00a0His reply caught us totally off guard: &#8220;I&#8217;m sad because I don&#8217;t want Sarah to grow up!&#8221;I&#8217;m totally with you, dude.\u00a0But there&#8217;s no stopping it.So goodbye, footy pajamas. \u00a0 Goodbye, Lalaloopsy. \u00a0 Goodbye, bedtime stories.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj_ijL3z0XmSG_GUPUnJH_mhiyS-wn61aJ_VVCFfFE8_emBFqyNwZzOjW9z5TSH9hwc-bQ12nkB027aQBm69qoNSzpGI-l1Hm1jXuN9_eqqYOSxFHDTvnHo8uARx0KOTbY79LIVvjC-A0k\/s640\/2012-01-16+07.49.51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A birthday pic from the good old days &#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg32pvI1uvaABfvPGk_NxS5NKulsw02HfjBvjEmBbQ-d-_fR5mKJ6GAJAulabX9GPBnDOAOkdeEuNdSWyiPJP-WPplEwyl89yRRGsXma7Yx1XxwBH9Wg5lreJ-o9AiO9rMtSOAaKH4aJrE\/s320\/2012-06-08+14.23.04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, boy problems. Hello, driver&#8217;s license. Hello, growing independence.\u00a0I will do my best to embrace this new era, especially since I already know that this era, also, will too soon be &#8220;the good old days&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200119_210423-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1315\" height=\"1600\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I worked myself into a true funk after Sarah&#8217;s (belated) birthday party ended. 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