{"id":446,"date":"2010-04-10T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2010-04-10T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T02:07:00","slug":"dancing-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/S7_debxG_hI\/AAAAAAAAGvE\/sAjeHm0wQmQ\/s1600\/DSC08341.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\/S7_debxG_hI\/AAAAAAAAGvE\/sAjeHm0wQmQ\/s320\/DSC08341.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458324788315880978\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>(These beautiful shoes are on the feet of my beautiful youngest daughter.  She was just given them by a family friend and now lives in them, I can&#8217;t blame her!)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Whoop, what happened?  Well I tried to neglect everything this week and not let myself get worked up but my body let me know I was stressed after all and I get it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I was amazed at all the stuff that hit me as I struggled to deal with my Dad&#8217;s  life being vulnerable.  I am amazed at how little emotion I showed through it all&#8230; most of it was anger about other stuff as I crushed the tears down&#8230; cuz I was supposed to.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the surgery is over and for now he is getting better and better I am kinda ticked that I wasn&#8217;t allowed to just be worried and sad and get on with it&#8230; lesson learned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As I listened to my eldest sing to her little sister and brother today, and watched them dance to her impromptu song, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I realized I want to put on my dancing shoes again too.  I only seem to find them with God.  I only know how to dance with him at the lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Go ahead Big Girl, sing that endless song of yours because it is coming from your pretty heart. <br \/>Go ahead and tap tap tap in your new pink shoes Little Woman because life joy like that is too precious.<br \/>Go ahead Baby Boy and copy your sisters dance, you understand that passionate joyfulness is contagious.<\/div>\n<p>None of you know the stifling rules of adulthood yet and so I am thankful.<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(These beautiful shoes are on the feet of my beautiful youngest daughter. She was just given them by a family friend and now lives in them, I can&#8217;t blame her!) Whoop, what happened? Well I tried to neglect everything this week and not let myself get worked up but my body let me know I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10,18,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}