{"id":2043,"date":"2012-02-22T21:52:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2012-02-22T21:54:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:54:57","slug":"brace-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2043","title":{"rendered":"brace yourself…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Before\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They look ready for this, right?<\/p>\n

\"Before<\/a><\/p>\n

Maybe not. <\/p>\n

Too bad, kids, the time has come to help our orthodontist put his own kids through college. <\/p>\n

Braces for all 3 – at one time. Honestly, we’re getting a great deal. Having triplets has had it’s perks. Free diapers when they were little…discounts on braces now. Plus, they were having a February promotion of a big chunk of money off EACH set of braces. EACH! So, we jumped in. <\/p>\n

\"waiting<\/a><\/p>\n

We invaded the place bright and early. Since it was going to take HOURS of waiting in a boring waiting room, my friend Kelley graciously agreed to take Lainey and Dylan to the mall across the street. <\/p>\n

I was equipped with my iphone, bible app, and journal. And, my kindle. Ocassionally, I glanced up at an incredibly old re-run of Rosanne. Did we ever really think that was funny?<\/p>\n

The first patient finally showed up…<\/p>\n

\"Marley<\/a><\/p>\n

And, the second…<\/p>\n

\"Payton<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, Ethan… <\/p>\n

\"Ethan<\/a><\/p>\n

Total time at the orthodontist? 3+ hours. Total time they’ll be in braces? 22-26 months. Each. <\/p>\n

Today is Day 2, and they’re definitely feeling better than they did Day 1. Ibuprofen is still their friend, and the food is still soft. (though, they did wrestle with pizza today at co-op, since the teacher surprised them with it!) The first week is the hardest. <\/p>\n

A friend reminded me of something the other day…when Marley, Payton, and Ethan were little, I decided I’d get myself braces. I knew, down the road, that we’d be faced with putting braces on their sweet, tiny faces, so I figured I’d go ahead and take care of myself. Looks like “down the road” has arrived! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They look ready for this, right? Maybe not. Too bad, kids, the time has come to help our orthodontist put his own kids through college. Braces for all 3 – at one time. Honestly, we’re getting a great deal. Having triplets has had it’s perks. Free diapers when they were little…discounts on braces now. Plus, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethan","category-marley","category-payton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}