{"id":14679,"date":"2013-07-13T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T07:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=14679"},"modified":"2013-07-13T00:01:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T07:01:30","slug":"a-forgotten-gift-from-my-long-ago-teenaged-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/a-forgotten-gift-from-my-long-ago-teenaged-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"A Forgotten Gift From My Teenaged Daughter — No Good After December 31"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A forgotten gift from my teenaged daughter. Christina was 13 when she gave me this coupon for my birthday. It would be “no good” if I didn’t redeem it soon, which I didn’t.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes it pays to clean out the drawers in your office. Look what a recent rampage through my stationery drawers turned up: Two coupons from my then 13-year-old daughter Christina promising to do chores around the house — including yard work, for heaven’s sake.<\/p>\n

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Christina — barely 13. Photos by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m pretty sure they were not Christmas gifts. Christina was a good kid, even as a teenager. She wouldn’t have presented me with coupons timed to expire in a couple of days. I probably got these for my birthday back in September, 1996.<\/p>\n

Obviously, I didn’t have the heart to turn in these adorable coupons and get the promised work — sans complaints — out of Christina.<\/p>\n

I saved them. Which is what I’m going to keep on doing. Back into the tidied-up stationery drawer this forgotten gift from my teenaged daughter went — to be smiled upon the next time I finally get around to organizing my stuff.<\/p>\n

Read more about Christina at “Four-Year-Old Girls — The Last Bastion of Pretty”<\/a> and “How to Overmother a Twenty-Something.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Look what reorganizing my stationery drawers turned up: Coupons from my then 13-year-old daughter Christina promising to do chores around the house — including yard work, for heaven’s sake. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1030,146,34,1031,1032,1033,55,1034,82,1035],"class_list":["post-14679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-changing-family","tag-birthdays","tag-christina","tag-dont-miss","tag-household-chores","tag-housework","tag-kids-giving-gifts","tag-family-stories","tag-my-grown-up-kids","tag-on-the-funny-side","tag-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}