Since school is out I can sleep till eight o\u2019clock in the morning.\u00a0 Mom then wakes me up and says there are a lot of things that I need to do.\u00a0 My Mom does not understand how exhausted I am from my stressful school year.\u00a0 I thought this summer was to be a real break where I could do nothing and just relax– but my Mom does not see it that way.\u00a0 She has jobs for me to do about every day.\u00a0 Yesterday she said I had to help my brother, Dwayne, wash the house windows\u2014all of them in one day!\u00a0 Whoever built our house never thought about the work it was to keep those windows clean.\u00a0 This was not a fun job until Dwayne got the smart idea to use the garden hose to get the windows wet.\u00a0\u00a0 We got soaked but got the windows cleaned.\u00a0 I would spray the water on each window and on Dwayne.\u00a0 He would then wash the windows with a cleaner. \u00a0I would then rinse the clearer off, and Dwayne would then dry and shine them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mom was really surprised at how good we did at getting them cleaned.\u00a0 What could have taken all day only took us only four hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since school is out I can sleep till eight o\u2019clock in the morning.\u00a0 Mom then wakes me up and says there are a lot of things that I need to do.\u00a0 My Mom does not understand how exhausted I am from my stressful school year.\u00a0 I thought this summer was to be a real break […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,59,53,58,54],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joeysjournal","tag-advise","tag-journal","tag-parenting","tag-school","tag-teaching-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/andyant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/andyant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}