{"id":6746,"date":"2015-12-13T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T03:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:49:27","slug":"being-the-baby-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6746","title":{"rendered":"Being the baby again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been able to escape\u00a0many\u00a0of my work responsibilities<\/a>\u00a0during recovery, but today I had to check and finalize a form for the grant’s next installment.<\/p>\n

It was painfully difficult. The accountant had made some calculations that I knew weren’t correct. I went over and over the numbers to make sure I had done everything right. Then I corrected the form. Then had to figure out a diplomatic wording for the email when I sent it to the donor.<\/p>\n

It was less than two hours of work, but I felt as though I’d been working for 16 hours.<\/p>\n

My reward was great: Tom arrived with my big sister Ann – and a load of Mexican food from our favorite nearby restaurant.<\/p>\n

Ann has always been like a second mom to me – and better than our first Mom, in some ways, because she didn’t criticize or reprimand me. She’s one of the most nonjudgmental people I know.<\/p>\n

She was 12 when I was born, and as her maternal instincts were just starting to develop, she thought it was great to have a baby to take care of.<\/p>\n

She was in college when I started elementary school. I wrote her little notes, and she always wrote back. I got to spend a few weekends in Cleveland with her, and she bought poetry books for me that I still have.<\/p>\n

Ann has always encouraged me to be myself – supported my sensitivity, my writing, my art, my travels.<\/p>\n

When I was hit with the aneurysm, all three of my sisters and several of my friends volunteered to fly to Atlanta and help Tom take care of me.<\/p>\n

We resisted at first. But Tom has an important business trip this week that was rescheduled from Nov. 17. So having Ann stay with me is perfect.<\/p>\n

I can be myself, even though I’m weak, screwed up, and not worth a damn as company. I can be the baby sister again, now that Ann’s here.<\/p>\n

Today’s penny is a 1967… When Ann was in college and I was still her baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been able to escape\u00a0many\u00a0of my work responsibilities\u00a0during recovery, but today I had to check and finalize a form for the grant’s next installment. It was painfully difficult. The accountant had made some calculations that I knew weren’t correct. I went over and over the numbers to make sure I had done everything right. Then … read more Being the baby again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[231,440,551,89,88,682,681,20,138],"class_list":["post-6746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-231","tag-ann","tag-email","tag-home","tag-ohio","tag-sister","tag-support","tag-tom","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6850,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/6850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}