{"id":8640,"date":"2005-02-17T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/17\/finishing-the-preparations\/"},"modified":"2005-04-17T05:37:13","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T02:37:13","slug":"finishing-the-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/17\/finishing-the-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing the preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Today Olga and I took the last mega shopping tour to buy the last of the missing stuff.  We also invited the &#8220;golden hands&#8221; guy to fix and patch a few broken pieces in the house.  Even small things like shelves in the bathroom and new washing machine has been taken care off.  This is amazing.  Actually this is unbelievable.  We started less than two month ago with a huge list of things to do and buy.  We even wrote it down and revised it twice.  It was so big that niegher Olga nor I could remember even half of it.  And now we are done!<\/p>\n<p>It feels very empty now.  Before we used to worry a lot that we don&#8217;t have enough time or money to finish everything before the baby comes.  But now there is nothing to do and the baby is still on its way.  Come on, little fellow, hurry up!<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Today Olga and I took the last mega shopping tour to buy the last of the missing stuff. We also invited the &#8220;golden hands&#8221; guy to fix and patch a few broken pieces in the house. Even small things like shelves in the bathroom and new washing machine has been taken care off. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/17\/finishing-the-preparations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finishing the preparations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2420],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-parenting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8635,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/15\/update-on-our-pregnancy\/","url_meta":{"origin":8640,"position":0},"title":"Update on our pregnancy","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 15, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Olga and I are just coming from our caretaker. 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