{"id":7731,"date":"2019-03-02T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2019-03-02T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T17:00:01","slug":"laundry-will-always-be-there-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/laundry-will-always-be-there-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Laundry Will Always Be There For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s never ending, isn&#8217;t it?  I feel like I always have a mountain of laundry in some form&#8230;.whether it&#8217;s dirty laundry to wash or clean laundry that needs to be folded.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like that meme about laundry always being there for you.  It will never let you down.  Ha!<\/p>\n<p>As I finished folding the laundry, I glanced over at the sock basket, which was full to overflowing.  Ever so reluctantly, I pulled the basket up onto my folding table and started to match socks.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6044.jpg?resize=840%2C836&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7730\" width=\"840\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6044.jpg?w=1242&amp;ssl=1 1242w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6044.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6044.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6044.jpg?resize=768%2C764&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6044.jpg?resize=1024%2C1019&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6044.jpg?resize=1200%2C1194&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I LOVE folding clothes, (<em>I know, weird right?  I just love making neat piles<\/em>.) matching socks is not my favorite.  Overflowing baskets are not my favorite either so, matching socks it is.<\/p>\n<p>As I matched and sorted the socks, I kept asking myself how I could possibly be truly grateful for this.<\/p>\n<p>While I have lots to be grateful for, I&#8217;m not promoting fake gratitude. I do want to be actually  grateful for the things in my life and not just mouth empty words.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that I am grateful that we have enough socks for our whole family.  I am also thankful that we have lots of easy to match socks; but honestly, neither of those really fill me with gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes right down to it, I was truly grateful that the job was done.  I&#8217;m also truly grateful that we have enough socks that, once the job is done, I don&#8217;t need to do it again for a while.<\/p>\n<p>What are you grateful for, today?  I&#8217;d love to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s never ending, isn&#8217;t it? I feel like I always have a mountain of laundry in some form&#8230;.whether it&#8217;s dirty laundry to wash or clean laundry that needs to be folded. It&#8217;s like that meme about laundry always being there for you. It will never let you down. Ha! As I finished folding the laundry, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/laundry-will-always-be-there-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laundry Will Always Be There For You&#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":"Laundry Will Always Be There For You #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":[81,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude-challenge","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\/7731","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=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}