On the way to his martial arts class, the boy was eating a snack. One of those crackers and cheese combo packages. The elastics for his braces were sitting on the center console of the car. He finished his snack about half-way to our destination.<\/p>\n
The elastics were in a bad spot for me- no where to put my elbow. So when he finished I just reminded him about them so he’d put them back in. Since the car was still moving, I figured if he started then he’d have them in by the time we got to the school, what with the movement of the car and all.<\/p>\n
So he picks up the first one and puts it in. And then the boy who spent a week in tears of frustration over his elastics; the boy who on a number of occasions declared he would not<\/em> go to school because of the elastics; the boy who had declared he would never wear the elastics because they were too hard to install said something so remarkable and stunning that I still can’t believe the words issued forth from his mouth.<\/p>\n “Putting in my elastics is SO EASY<\/em>!”<\/p>\n Once I remembered I was still operating a motor vehicle, all I could do was smile and shake my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the way to his martial arts class, the boy was eating a snack. One of those crackers and cheese combo packages. The elastics for his braces were sitting on the center console of the car. He finished his snack about half-way to our destination. The elastics were in a bad spot for me- no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-the-boy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}