{"id":350,"date":"2026-01-04T22:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2026-01-04T22:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:30:45","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/04\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY NEW YEAR!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I haven&#8217;t logged in here in so long that I had to delete 70+ spam comments. Why so many? Probably not that many considering that it&#8217;s been 2 years since I last logged in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have made many little posts on Facebook, 0 posts about writing on Instagram, and haven&#8217;t kept up with my Goodreads reading log. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have started and quit weightlifting a couple of times.  I enjoy lifting. I even took the class in high school. I&#8217;ve started a Discord server, but I barely post there either. If you can find it, I posted the start of a vampire story that I&#8217;ve been working on since about this time last year. I haven&#8217;t posted anything new for a while. It would be better if I posted it here instead, but I haven&#8217;t bothered to do it yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My son gained an IEP (individual education plan) because he has enough autism traits to need it. I haven&#8217;t pursued a diagnosis for him. His twin was diagnosed with borderline ADHD in 1st grade. Their grades have improved over the last two years. Pretty sure it&#8217;s their school that&#8217;s the biggest reason I haven&#8217;t been writing much. At one point, Twin 2 had a 14% in math for the semester last year. They&#8217;re actually passing math this year! Twin 1 is passing science and Twin 2 is failing science, but not by much. His science grade is in the 60&#8217;s. Consider me a happy mom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I joined the boy&#8217;s Scout troop in July as a leader so I could go to Merit Badge University with them. What an experience that was! I had no concept of what we were getting into, but we loved it with one exception- it&#8217;s still like school and there&#8217;s work to do. I&#8217;m really not comfortable being a leader, but 14 years of being a parent is pretty good training, and I&#8217;m getting used to the idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, we went to help one of the older boys with his Eagle Scout project, which is building a box for people to donate their flags so they can be retired properly. There were about a dozen boys cutting wood, sanding, etc, with the Scout leading the boys in the project. I tried to be quiet and let the boys learn, but none of them had cut plywood or planned out a project before. I wanted to make suggestions, but I&#8217;m getting over a cold, and my voice isn&#8217;t loud enough at the moment to get over a crowd of boys. We really need the boys to do more projects because there&#8217;s no guarantee that my boys will get to do wood shop or any of the other electives in high school next year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could say I need to get back to the writing, like Chris Fox, but I&#8217;m going to go lift weights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t logged in here in so long that I had to delete 70+ spam comments. Why so many? Probably not that many considering that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/04\/happy-new-year\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HAPPY NEW YEAR!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexy-price.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}