{"id":296,"date":"2012-04-18T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kikis-list.com\/2012\/04\/18\/stopping-to-smell-the-flowers\/"},"modified":"2013-06-18T16:54:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T20:54:03","slug":"stopping-to-smell-the-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/stopping-to-smell-the-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping to Smell the Flowers."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-FCR5Xhxc0IM\/T42mbqZkO2I\/AAAAAAAAHSU\/ZTlYUlpd8H4\/s1600\/securedownload-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-FCR5Xhxc0IM\/T42mbqZkO2I\/AAAAAAAAHSU\/ZTlYUlpd8H4\/s1600\/securedownload-1.jpeg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">As of late, my life has been crazy. \u00a0Like, seriously, crazy. \u00a0I am stressed beyond belief and trying to find a way to find a balance, especially for my girls. \u00a0Yesterday morning, my <i>almost<\/i>-4-year old girl wanted to go out and pick a flower for her teacher. \u00a0Of course, I was late (as usual) but I stopped and thought to myself &#8220;If I don&#8217;t take this moment in now, when will I?&#8221; \u00a0I strive very hard (or at least that is my intention) to make sure that my girls are kind and considerate, and that is exactly the behavior that Lou was demonstrating. \u00a0Of course, if I start to think about the amount of times that our schedule or life gets in the way of that my head might explode. \u00a0I would never want my girls to think that there is anything more important than them&#8230; but unfortunately, sometimes my behavior shows otherwise. \u00a0So, here&#8217;s to a new, calmer me and training myself how to stop and smell the flowers.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of late, my life has been crazy. \u00a0Like, seriously, crazy. \u00a0I am stressed beyond belief and trying to find a way to find a balance, especially for my girls. \u00a0Yesterday morning, my almost-4-year old girl wanted to go out and pick a flower for her teacher. \u00a0Of course, I was late (as usual) but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,32,49,8,23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-motherly-moment","category-family","category-inspiration","category-kiddos","category-kids","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}