{"id":466,"date":"2009-05-08T14:22:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2009-05-08T14:26:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T18:26:21","slug":"saving-my-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/466","title":{"rendered":"Saving my Sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The offender:\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This little sweetie has fast hands and knows how to use them.\u00c2\u00a0 She gets into everything, grabs anything within reach (or gets herself in reach by finding a stool), and helps herself to any and all items that look interesting.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The problem:\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Our pantry door.\u00c2\u00a0 More specifically, our way-too-easy-to-open pantry door.\u00c2\u00a0 She thinks it’s her own personal 7-11.\u00c2\u00a0 She brings me cookie and cracker boxes all the time.\u00c2\u00a0 She uses the larger containers on the pantry floor to stand on to reach higher shelves.\u00c2\u00a0 It can get maddening.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong – I know that adopted kids can have a “thing” about food and they need to know it’s available.\u00c2\u00a0 Lainey is well fed, and is rarely refused food unless it’s just not time for more food – and I don’t think she needs a cookie 1\/2hr after breakfast :)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The solution:<\/p>\n

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It’s not pretty, I know.\u00c2\u00a0 But sometimes taking one little thing that drives me nuts\u00c2\u00a0AWAY is worth gaining a little ugliness.\u00c2\u00a0 Our pantry door is hollow, so screwing a latch into it doesn’t work.\u00c2\u00a0 Quick and cheap solution is a removable hook, rubber band, and a hook screwed into the door frame.\u00c2\u00a0 It works…so far.\u00c2\u00a0 As long as I keep the stepstools away from her.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The offender:\u00c2\u00a0 This little sweetie has fast hands and knows how to use them.\u00c2\u00a0 She gets into everything, grabs anything within reach (or gets herself in reach by finding a stool), and helps herself to any and all items that look interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem:\u00c2\u00a0 Our pantry door.\u00c2\u00a0 More specifically, our way-too-easy-to-open pantry door.\u00c2\u00a0 She thinks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}