{"id":486,"date":"2007-11-15T07:57:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T12:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=486"},"modified":"2007-11-15T07:57:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T12:57:21","slug":"On more tender mom link...","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"On more tender mom link&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from one of my favorite bloggers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notesfromthetrenches.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Notes from the Trenches<\/a>.  She also posts regular posts at The Parenting Post, where she shared <a href=\"It is such a cliche to say that time has passed in the blink of an eye, but it is true. Of course when I was going through those toddler and preschool years with you I thought they would never end. But now sometimes, just for a brief minute, I wish you were still three, hanging off my leg, and thinking that I had all the answers for all the questions in the world.\" target=\"_blank\">this poignant letter to her newly teenage firstborn<\/a>.  This tender paragraph tugged at my heart&#8230;<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\" style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<p><font size=\"2\">It is such a cliche to say that time has passed in the blink of an eye,<br \/>\nbut it is true. Of course when I was going through those toddler and<br \/>\npreschool years with you I thought they would never end. But now<br \/>\nsometimes, just for a brief minute, I wish you were still three,<br \/>\nhanging off my leg, and thinking that I had all the answers for all the<br \/>\nquestions in the world.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Yep, that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m at these days.  Analise chattered a mile-a-minute yesterday, full of questions, comments, and stories.  She wanted to know about everything. It is amazing how she thinks I&#8217;m the source of all information.  I wonder how long this will last?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from one of my favorite bloggers, Notes from the Trenches. She also posts regular posts at The Parenting Post, where she shared this poignant letter to her newly teenage firstborn. This tender paragraph tugged at my heart&#8230; It is such a cliche to say that time has passed in the blink of an [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-7Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}