{"id":1664,"date":"2013-01-15T15:28:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2019-04-04T15:53:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T15:53:20","slug":"if-you-give-a-mom-a-martini-100-ways-to-find-10-blissful-minutes-for-yourself-by-julie-klappas-and-lyss-stern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"If You Give a Mom a Martini: 100 Ways to Find 10 Blissful Minutes for Yourself by Julie Klappas and Lyss Stern"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I stumbled upon this book by accident when I was looking up If You Give a Moose a Muffin<\/em> for a library patron, and I couldn’t help but wonder, “Where have you been all my [mommy] life?!?”\u00a0 Sure, I love my kids… but I need a little break from them every once in a while!\u00a0 The authors of this book, along with some of their celebrity friends, have put together a list of 100 ways to find and\/or enjoy a spare 10 minutes.\u00a0 Pure genius.\u00a0 Since I am a soccer mom, I think I may have laughed a little too hard at the “Get Your Kicks” suggestion of kicking a soccer ball deep into the woods and relaxing on the bench while your child goes to retrieve it!\u00a0 Other suggestions include treating yourself to a beautiful single flower for your bedside table and boxing on your Wii while listening to the Rocky<\/em> soundtrack.\u00a0 The best part is that when you’re done with the book, you can always head to the “Your Stories” section of the If You Give a Mom a Martini<\/em> website to peruse suggestions left by other readers! [edit 4\/4\/2019: This website is no longer available.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stumbled upon this book by accident when I was looking up If You Give a Moose a Muffin for a library patron, and I couldn’t help but wonder, “Where have you been all my [mommy] life?!?”\u00a0 Sure, I love my kids… but I need a little break from them every once in a while!\u00a0 … Continue reading If You Give a Mom a Martini: 100 Ways to Find 10 Blissful Minutes for Yourself by Julie Klappas and Lyss Stern<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}