{"id":7702,"date":"2019-02-28T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:49:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:49:02","slug":"t-minus-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/t-minus-one\/","title":{"rendered":"T minus One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, If I&#8217;m honest, there probably will be no &#8220;typical&#8221; post for this <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=7674\">Gratitude Challenge<\/a>.  You may get a picture with a description.  You may get a long winded story or wonder of all wonders, I may actually plunk out some well thought out gratitude prose.  Just come along for the journey and share&#8230;&#8230;please share something you&#8217;re thankful or grateful for.  That&#8217;s the fun, creating a community where we can encourage one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpeg?resize=512%2C508&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7703\" width=\"512\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpeg?resize=1024%2C1016&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpeg?resize=300%2C298&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpeg?resize=768%2C762&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpeg?resize=1200%2C1190&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FullSizeRender.jpeg?w=1242&amp;ssl=1 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I sometimes get told that I look like I&#8217;ve got it all together.  I have to try really hard to not screech at the people who say this, because it&#8217;s all just smoke and mirrors.  I&#8217;m one of the biggest &#8220;Hot Mess&#8221; moms that you&#8217;ll ever come across.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, on the day before the Gratitude Challenge officially starts, I&#8217;m super grateful for lipstick, messy buns and sunglasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not a morning person.  Not! at! all! and most days, I crawl out of bed and attempt to wrangle children, feed and clothe them and get them to school before I get &#8220;THE CALL&#8221; that my child has been marked absent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I beat that call, I&#8217;m totally winning.  Even if I don&#8217;t!  Still winning! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But lipstick, messy buns and sunglasses make me feel like a million bucks, until I have to go inside the school, take my sunglasses off and then, inevitably someone asks me if I&#8217;m okay. Because the mom who picks my kids up later in the day, she has make up on and clean clothes.  Early morning mom&#8230;..she has lipstick, sun glasses and yesterday&#8217;s clothes; and she ROCKS it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See, it&#8217;s not all deep, heavy stuff like the last few days, BUT&#8230;..cultivating a mindset of gratitude will help to get you through those tough kinds of days, if they ever happen to you.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you ready for tomorrow?  I hope so.  I can&#8217;t wait to hear some of the things that You&#8217;re grateful or thankful for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, If I&#8217;m honest, there probably will be no &#8220;typical&#8221; post for this Gratitude Challenge. You may get a picture with a description. You may get a long winded story or wonder of all wonders, I may actually plunk out some well thought out gratitude prose. Just come along for the journey and share&#8230;&#8230;please share &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/t-minus-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;T minus One&#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":"T minus One #marchtogratitude","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,81,11,16,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts","category-gratitude-challenge","category-just-crap","category-me","category-thankfulness"],"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\/7702","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=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7725,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions\/7725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}