{"id":611,"date":"2009-06-20T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2009-06-20T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T18:18:00","slug":"painfully-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Painfully Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sj0ogYxrrmI\/AAAAAAAAEZk\/4piBjqXDWws\/s1600-h\/IMG_3639.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sj0ogYxrrmI\/AAAAAAAAEZk\/4piBjqXDWws\/s400\/IMG_3639.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349476469257776738\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Change is painfully beautiful.<br \/>When we moved here I was sad at that change in life.  Then these <span>irises<\/span> bloomed in the front bed and gave me hope of the beauty I would eventually find in this transition period of life.<br \/>Now I look at them, once again, for the last spring.  They will no longer be mine.<br \/>They will stay and bless the next renters while our family moves on.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sj0ogmuIT3I\/AAAAAAAAEZ0\/deKMh2885Q0\/s1600-h\/IMG_3661.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sj0ogmuIT3I\/AAAAAAAAEZ0\/deKMh2885Q0\/s400\/IMG_3661.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349476473000972146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sj0ogmuIT3I\/AAAAAAAAEZ0\/deKMh2885Q0\/s1600-h\/IMG_3661.JPG\"> <\/a>Change is painfully beautiful.<br \/>I adore these super fat legs and feet in the grass even though they mean my last new born is gone forever and my little Baby Boy keeps getting further and further from me as he grows bigger and bigger.<br \/>I will always lovingly see this chub chub baby in my son, <span>whether<\/span> he likes it or not.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sj0ogmo54hI\/AAAAAAAAEZs\/omDefUMnpXg\/s1600-h\/IMG_3648.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sj0ogmo54hI\/AAAAAAAAEZs\/omDefUMnpXg\/s400\/IMG_3648.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349476472979055122\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Change is painfully beautiful.<br \/>Oh daughter STOP sitting there so at peace, so full of growing wisdom, so beautifully surprising!  I am going to have to run over and squeeze you, a desperate attempt to stop you from growing older&#8230; I will then cry and sigh and be SO proud of all that you have become and will become!<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sj0rMbXj3jI\/AAAAAAAAEaE\/E-5Xw0IkDb4\/s1600-h\/IMG_3645.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Sj0rMbXj3jI\/AAAAAAAAEaE\/E-5Xw0IkDb4\/s400\/IMG_3645.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349479424891018802\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Change is painfully beautiful.<br \/>It makes a mama&#8217;s heart well up with great joy and <span>thankfulness<\/span> to her maker and at the same time her eyes well up with tears at the babies long gone!<br \/>It makes her heart burn with in her chest; ablaze with love, hope and sorrow all at once!<br \/>A mama&#8217;s heart is one big <span>paradox<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>TTFN<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change is painfully beautiful.When we moved here I was sad at that change in life. Then these irises bloomed in the front bed and gave me hope of the beauty I would eventually find in this transition period of life.Now I look at them, once again, for the last spring. They will no longer be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}