{"id":611,"date":"2008-07-03T23:23:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T04:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=611"},"modified":"2008-07-03T23:23:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T04:23:05","slug":"Link Love..","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Link Love.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you asked me what my favorite daily read was &#8211; after I named all my dear friends and family who I check in on far more often than they know &#8211; I&#8217;d point you to <a href=\"http:\/\/rocksinmydryer.typepad.com\/shannon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rocks in my Dryer<\/a>.&nbsp; I found this amazing blog a couple months ago after clicking through some links, and now it&#8217;s one of my favorite places to go.&nbsp; Just this evening, I sat down to find a couple of my favorite posts to share, and I&#8217;ve been completely drawn in by her witty stories, quiet faith, tender thoughts, and honestly fall-off-your-chair-laughing mom moments.&nbsp; So without further ado, here are a few that I laughed and cried over tonight&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On her <a href=\"http:\/\/rocksinmydryer.typepad.com\/shannon\/2008\/06\/our-priorities.html\" target=\"_blank\">son&#8217;s VBS daily offering challenge<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hilarious thoughts on a <a href=\"http:\/\/rocksinmydryer.typepad.com\/shannon\/2008\/06\/some-thoughts-o.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent plane trip she took<\/a><\/li>\n<li>As she&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rocksinmydryer.typepad.com\/shannon\/2008\/06\/aptly-named.html\" target=\"_blank\">learning what the motherboard<\/a> on her new computer does&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rocksinmydryer.typepad.com\/shannon\/2008\/05\/weekend-o-drama.html\" target=\"_blank\">Squirrels and pacifiers<\/a>&#8230; who new??&nbsp; (Seriously, one of my FAVORITE posts EVER&#8230; we&#8217;re going to be doing this with Josiah&#8217;s pacifiers in a few years!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rocksinmydryer.typepad.com\/shannon\/2008\/05\/i-have-always-w.html\" target=\"_blank\">Live blogging a tornado<\/a>, which I posted before<\/li>\n<li>Glimpsing God&#8217;s heart on a <a href=\"http:\/\/rocksinmydryer.typepad.com\/shannon\/2008\/04\/stormy.html\" target=\"_blank\">stormy night<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And lastly, a <a href=\"http:\/\/rocksinmydryer.typepad.com\/shannon\/2008\/04\/remembering-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">very poignant reminiscience of loss<\/a>, which many mothers can sympathize with.&nbsp; Warning.. have a kleenex handy.&nbsp; This one tugged at my heart, as I had a miscarriage just before we became pregnant with Josiah.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you asked me what my favorite daily read was &#8211; after I named all my dear friends and family who I check in on far more often than they know &#8211; I&#8217;d point you to Rocks in my Dryer.&nbsp; I found this amazing blog a couple months ago after clicking through some links, and [&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-611","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-9R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}