{"id":1136,"date":"2009-01-26T23:16:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T04:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2009-01-26T23:16:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T04:16:28","slug":"this-is-very-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"This is very good…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I just read this amazing post<\/a> by one of my favorite bloggers ever (her personal blog is Rocks in my Dryer<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0 She just gets it… this joyful, exhausting, overwhelming, huge responsibility of being a Mom.\u00a0 She gets it, and she knows how to communicate it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure I was fully aware, back then, how incredibly taxing those days were. I operated much of the time in survival mode, buzzing between a pediatrician visit to a botched bedtime to a temper tantrum to an explosive diaper (or three). And I loved <\/em>it \u2013 make no mistake. For all the exhaustion, there were many times that were so precious they did (and still do) take my breath away. But the intensity of the demands had me bouncing back and forth constantly between joy and discouragement, wonder and fear. I remember feeling guilty, sometimes, knowing there would never be a sweeter season in my life, so why was it that I sometimes just wanted everyone to go to sleep already<\/em><\/strong>?\u00a0 (Quoted from Parenting.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I read this just this evening, and it moved me to tears.\u00a0 Seriously… this is where I’m at most days.\u00a0 And she continues at the end of her post (which you really must read!), to say that after all is said and done we will think, “this is very good”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And today of all days, I had a glimpse of that.<\/p>\n

We were busy all day, out and about doing things, enjoying each other, having fun.\u00a0 Analise was in rare good form today… very sweet, obedient, not whiney or teary, full of grace… the girl I know she can be.\u00a0 Josiah was bouncy and playful, sweet and charming.\u00a0 And I enjoyed my kids today.\u00a0 It was balm to my sometimes beat-up Mommy ego that is constantly fighting\u00a0 with tantrums, colds, diapers, cracker crumbs, rundown trains and tears.\u00a0\u00a0 I know this calling as a Mom is awesome and holy and full of great rewards<\/a> (another fantastic post),\u00a0 but today was a much needed glimpse of those rewards.\u00a0\u00a0 And at the end of the day, this post (quoted above) wrapped it up for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I just read this amazing post by one of my favorite bloggers ever (her personal blog is Rocks in my Dryer).\u00a0\u00a0 She just gets it… this joyful, exhausting, overwhelming, huge responsibility of being a Mom.\u00a0 She gets it, and she knows how to communicate it. I\u2019m not sure I was fully aware, back then, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[17,6],"tags":[18,71,43],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-parenting","tag-inspirational","tag-mom","tag-moment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-ik","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}