{"id":5302,"date":"2019-09-10T09:18:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=5302"},"modified":"2019-09-10T09:18:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:18:01","slug":"going-home-outfit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/going-home-outfit\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Home Outfit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Watercolor<\/p>\n

I cannot believe that I am (I have become) someone who has planned a going home outfit for New Baby.<\/p>\n

Should everything work according to plan, he should be coming home about three months from now. <\/p>\n

I don’t even think that a going home outfit is that important. I mean, he will have no awareness of the thing. And there is less-than-zero chance that some bodily fluid or other will be on that outfit before we even make it the mile and change between the hospital and home.<\/p>\n

What has happened to me?<\/p>\n

I ordered a hat that matches the outfit. <\/p>\n

They say that every child is different…but is a mom different with every child. Am I becoming someone I don’t even know yet?<\/p>\n

Is now the right time to also confess that I’ve ordered a teeny, tiny little winter jacket for him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I cannot believe that I am (I have become) someone who has planned a going home outfit for New Baby. Should everything work according to plan, he should be coming home about three months from now.  I don’t even think that a going home outfit is that important. I mean, he will have no awareness… Continue reading Going Home Outfit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[281],"class_list":["post-5302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-pregnancy","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-1nw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5762,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/what-a-fun-outfit\/","url_meta":{"origin":5302,"position":0},"title":"“What a fun outfit!”","author":"sherlonya","date":"April 15, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Like so many others, I am one of those people who feels like I'm coming to life when spring begins its flirtation with us. 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