{"id":1637,"date":"2008-09-02T23:15:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T05:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandmpond.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/02\/adventures-in-mothering\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T23:18:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T05:18:08","slug":"adventures-in-mothering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/02\/adventures-in-mothering\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Mothering!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blogimages\/AdventuresinMotherhood_F11E\/IMG_94661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"392\" alt=\"IMG_9466-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blogimages\/AdventuresinMotherhood_F11E\/IMG_94661_thumb.jpg\" width=\"552\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with the very close #2 reason I&#8217;m in MOPS &#8211; the food!&#160; Our theme this year is &quot;Adventures in Mothering&quot; and our first meeting was carnival-themed.&#160; Isn&#8217;t the banana on a stick such a great idea&#8211;everything was delicious!&#160; Someone made a egg\/Mexican bean casserole that was to die for&#8211;amazing cooks! 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