{"id":352,"date":"2010-09-07T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2010-09-07T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T00:45:00","slug":"little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Little Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TIWLde2sIKI\/AAAAAAAAJJE\/ILzYmKgx5Xg\/s1600\/DSC04786.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TIWLde2sIKI\/AAAAAAAAJJE\/ILzYmKgx5Xg\/s320\/DSC04786.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513966657399955618\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>( I spent a whole afternoon washing the upstairs floors with my youngest two.  Yes it took that long because of their help but it was boundlessly cheerful as we played Cinderella and sang &#8216;Sweet sweet Nightingale&#8217;.)<\/div>\n<p>Kids remind you life is full of little things.  If you don&#8217;t protect your time you don&#8217;t get to enjoy life, the little things.  I sometimes imagine more &#8216;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">me<\/span> time&#8217;, but I want to be a content woman&#8230; so I count the little blessings and then I remember how I had time to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avoidingthesandyland.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/sun-beams-and-nap-times.html\">relish nap time with my little woman,<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avoidingthesandyland.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/catching-fairies.html\">watch the girls catch fairies,<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avoidingthesandyland.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/pedicures-for-my-girls.html\">pamper my girls with gusto,<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avoidingthesandyland.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/thankful-for.html\">find joy in the daily mama tasks,<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avoidingthesandyland.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/learning-from-you.html\">learn from my baby boy,<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/avoidingthesandyland.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/two-down.html\"><br \/>celebrate when big boy learned to tie his shoes,<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avoidingthesandyland.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/nothing-best-kind-of-summer-plans-in-my.html\">purposely do nothing <span>really<\/span> with my kids this summer,<\/a><\/p>\n<p>snuggle up with my man and watch endless episodes of our favorite <span>tv<\/span> shows on <span>dvd<\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No time of life is perfect&#8230;  all time is fleeting and the next stage will not have all the blessings of the last, so we must grab it and take note and enjoy it.  I am thankful.<\/p>\n<p><span>TTFN<\/span><br \/><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>( I spent a whole afternoon washing the upstairs floors with my youngest two. Yes it took that long because of their help but it was boundlessly cheerful as we played Cinderella and sang &#8216;Sweet sweet Nightingale&#8217;.) Kids remind you life is full of little things. If you don&#8217;t protect your time you don&#8217;t get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,9,5,14,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}