{"id":195,"date":"2008-05-08T19:11:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T02:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=195"},"modified":"2008-05-08T19:11:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T02:11:04","slug":"a-bit-better-of-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/a-bit-better-of-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit Better of A Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what y&#8217;all want to hear, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s true&#8230;it was a bit better of a day, and for no particular reason either.<\/p>\n<p>I played with &#8216;Siah quite a bit today&#8230;.met for coffee with a friend of mine first thing\u00c2\u00a0and then basically just bummed around the rest of the day, and it&#8217;s not because I am SOOOO organized that I have nothing left to do, &#8211; no, it&#8217;s just because it&#8217;s really tough to get stuff done with a 20+ pound weight attached to your side.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m going with the flow.\u00c2\u00a0 Which I have to say is a bit strange for me&#8230;I&#8217;m not your typical easy going, take life as it comes type of person, but I must be becoming that person as I&#8217;m doing more and more of that kind of &#8220;stuff&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m finding this whole having a baby more than 10 years after having my first, to be a TOTALLY different experience. I&#8217;m WAY more relaxed and I&#8217;m really &#8220;enjoying&#8221; things this time around.\u00c2\u00a0 It feels like I was in survival mode with the first 3, and there were all sorts of little things that I totally took for granted.\u00c2\u00a0 It was so easy to get busy and to try to make them fit into my life and I just let so much precious time slip by.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were the things that I rushed them through to do, like standing and walking and talking and drinking out of a cup..not that any of these things are bad, but I really pushed them on my kids &#8217;cause it was so cute and it helped them to grow up and I was tired and so it was easier for me, and I\u00c2\u00a0 wanted them to hurry up and grow up so that they would move onto the &#8220;next stage&#8221;, the &#8220;easier stage&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;so many moments rushed and wasted.\u00c2\u00a0 Moments that I can never get back.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so thankful to be able to experience this whole baby thing this time around&#8230;I wouldn&#8217;t wish to go through the past 3 years ever again, but were it not for all of that&#8230;..I wouldn&#8217;t have had Josiah and he is so precious, and I&#8217;m so thankful to have him&#8230;.even at 4am when he won&#8217;t settle down until after 5am&#8230;.that\u00c2\u00a0is fun, and I\u00c2\u00a0AM SO THANKFUL for that&#8230;..;P<\/p>\n<p>So, today\u00c2\u00a0was a much better day, and I just want to say thanks for letting me know that you were listening and that you care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what y&#8217;all want to hear, isn&#8217;t it? Well, it&#8217;s true&#8230;it was a bit better of a day, and for no particular reason either. I played with &#8216;Siah quite a bit today&#8230;.met for coffee with a friend of mine first thing\u00c2\u00a0and then basically just bummed around the rest of the day, and it&#8217;s not because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/a-bit-better-of-a-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Bit Better of A Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-josiah","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}