{"id":30253,"date":"2022-07-02T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T07:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=30253"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:08:19","slug":"what-makes-me-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/what-makes-me-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Me Happy? Having a Happy Kid, of Course"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s what happy looks like — a brand new father and a newborn baby. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What makes me happy? Noticing that one of my kids is happy.<\/p>\n

For example, meeting Peter at the hospital on the day his first child is born — and taking a picture of his beatific, Mona Lisa smile.<\/p>\n

I’m working super hard on a couple of projects this week — namely, playing with my granddaughters and spending some quality time with my son and daughter-in-law — so I’m going to let this photo of happy Peter with his swaddled newborn say it all for me.<\/p>\n

What else is making me happy these days? I’ve got two — count ’em, two — books in the works. More about that soon.<\/p>\n

This is not the first picture of Peter I’ve posted.\u00a0 I’ve been photographing and writing about my kids for decades. Here’s a story about mothering Peter when he was a teenager, “How Selective Service Made a Man of My Son — Without Even Trying.”<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0And here’s one about Christina being Christina, “What’s Rhetoric? Let My Two-Year-Old Tell You.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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What makes me happy? Catching one of my kids in a moment of real time happiness. Like my son holding his newborn for the first time.\u00a0 \u00a0Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1565,454,2391,2578,573,1152,56,31],"class_list":["post-30253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-changing-family","tag-babies","tag-family","tag-family-photo","tag-happy","tag-mothers","tag-parenting","tag-peter","tag-photo-ops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49226,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30253\/revisions\/49226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}