{"id":780,"date":"2010-02-04T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=780"},"modified":"2010-02-04T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:39:22","slug":"quiet-mornings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/quiet-mornings\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Mornings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Photo-54.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo 54\" title=\"Photo 54\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Photo-54.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Photo-54.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a quiet morning around here.  These are my absolute favorite.<\/p>\n<p>I slept in a bit, and Jon got the kids off to school.  He is so amazing.  I&#8217;ve just been so &#8220;blergh&#8221; and not feeling 100%.  He is the best father and husband EVER!  He takes care of all of us so well.<\/p>\n<p>And now&#8230;&#8230;.well, the kids are off for the day and Jon is working and I&#8217;m sitting in my living room watching Siah play on the floor close by.<\/p>\n<p>The sun is shining in the windows and I&#8217;m about the get a cup of coffee to slowly sip.  I might even make some muffins.  Or not&#8230;.I might just sit here and enjoy the sunshine.  <\/p>\n<p>I love quiet mornings. <\/p>\n<p>I remember when the older 3 kids were all under 5 and I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever have any quiet moments again.  It&#8217;s amazing to look back at that time and think that it flew by so fast.  Even though I felt so stressed out and worn out at the time, it went by so SO fast. <\/p>\n<p>It really made me realize that I can stop and breath and relax in whatever moment I find myself in and realize that &#8220;this too shall pass&#8221; and that soon it will be just a distant memory and that I need to try to enjoy the moment I&#8217;m in instead of looking forward past this moment &#8220;hoping&#8221; for something better or wishing that I weren&#8217;t &#8220;missing out&#8221; on something.  I missed so many things from back when my older 3 were little because I was so focused on getting past that stage.  I didn&#8217;t stop to realize that I only had that time with them &#8220;right then&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that motherhood or whatever else you&#8217;re going through isn&#8217;t sometimes (or often times) tough, but that this moment in time is a once in a life time thing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never get this moment back once it passes me by.  Sure, I&#8217;ll get new moments, and new memories; but this one&#8230;&#8230;.this moment is special for all it&#8217;s own reasons.<\/p>\n<p>I want to try to enjoy all my &#8220;moments&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>and Jon just brought me a coffee &#8211; what a darling.  My quiet morning just got a bit sweeter.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a quiet morning around here. These are my absolute favorite. I slept in a bit, and Jon got the kids off to school. He is so amazing. I&#8217;ve just been so &#8220;blergh&#8221; and not feeling 100%. He is the best father and husband EVER! He takes care of all of us so well. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/quiet-mornings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quiet Mornings&#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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"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\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}