{"id":9861,"date":"2016-02-26T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=9861"},"modified":"2016-06-28T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T11:50:10","slug":"living-learning-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/living-learning-little-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Living and Learning from the Little Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

When my first daughter was a baby, I didn’t want people to hold her while she slept because I was in school and working and needed her to sleep on her own in her bed.\u00a0 Now she is 7 and she doesn’t want to be close to me when she is sleepy or grumpy or hungry.\"H<\/a><\/p>\n

When my second daughter was a baby, I wished for her to get big and outgrow the hysterical, uncontrollable screaming and tried to ignore my gut telling me there was something not right.\u00a0 Now she is 5 and I wish she was tiny again so I could get her the help she needed sooner because I missed out on so much of her happy silliness before we knew she was in pain.\"s<\/p>\n

When my first son was a baby, I would beg him to stop singing and just go to sleep.\u00a0 Now he is almost 3 and I wish he talked better and wasn’t speech delayed.\"d<\/p>\n

Now my second son and last baby is here and I hold him close every chance I get, awake, sleepy or passed out cold.\u00a0 I listen intently to his cries and what he is trying to tell me and trust my mommy instincts. I revel in every coo, acknowledge every giggle and delight in every raspberry. \u00a0(And take lots of selfies because there’s not usually anyone else around to document these little moments.)\"p<\/p>\n

I’ve seen how quickly this time goes and how important it is for both of us.\u00a0 I’ve come to realize these small things make a big difference.\u00a0 I’ve learned that I can’t see the future, all I can do is try my hardest to make today the best it can be because someday I’ll look back and face a bunch of “what ifs” but what I don’t want to see is regrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When my first daughter was a baby, I didn’t want people to hold her while she slept because I was in school and working and needed her to sleep on her own in her bed.\u00a0 Now she is 7 and she doesn’t want to be close to me when she is sleepy or grumpy or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9861"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11108,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions\/11108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}