{"id":481,"date":"2010-02-13T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2010-02-13T03:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:37:00","slug":"puddle-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Puddle Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m the puddle&#8230; puddle of emotions and that is ok.<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/S3Yfjs8MH-I\/AAAAAAAAGYE\/rW2zg-c8vnA\/s1600-h\/DSC06970b.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/S3Yfjs8MH-I\/AAAAAAAAGYE\/rW2zg-c8vnA\/s320\/DSC06970b.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437568298315948002\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">(My Surprise Roses!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After a blessed evening with friends I was hit with a good dose of self pity and self esteem bashing, inflicted by myself alone.  My friends, my loved ones are to kind to ever be a real part of such a pitiful party.  And so, in this mood I sat up way to late&#8230; long into the night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How does he know?  I ask that not actually meaning it&#8230; for I know he knows my heart and is closer then a brother&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today I awoke to a message of love from my friend.<br \/>Today I was given beautiful roses from my neighbor lady.<br \/>Today I was listened to by my dear sister, my dear friend.<br \/>Today I got alone time with each of my children and saw so much in them.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Today I got over myself as I saw each little gift from my Father in heaven.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/S3YgOknoBPI\/AAAAAAAAGYU\/gj6qU1rlkSM\/s1600-h\/DSC06991.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/S3YgOknoBPI\/AAAAAAAAGYU\/gj6qU1rlkSM\/s320\/DSC06991.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437569034816586994\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:100%;\" ><span>(So often I catch him proving how fast he is growing up and how big he is&#8230; BUT now and then there are glimpses of my little man, reminders of my first baby boy and they make my heart feel squished in a good way. This picture was a heart squisher moment) <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Jesus is so good to me.<br \/>Is it ridiculously silly to say he is the best Valentine ever?  He knew exactly what I needed!<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the puddle&#8230; puddle of emotions and that is ok. (My Surprise Roses!) After a blessed evening with friends I was hit with a good dose of self pity and self esteem bashing, inflicted by myself alone. My friends, my loved ones are to kind to ever be a real part of such a pitiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}