{"id":376,"date":"2008-11-15T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2008-11-15T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T19:33:00","slug":"tis-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Tis The Season&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SR8sL5_s8wI\/AAAAAAAAA-Q\/FnSfFFgFF6o\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 117px; height: 127px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SR8sL5_s8wI\/AAAAAAAAA-Q\/FnSfFFgFF6o\/s320\/images.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268978672104960770\" \/><\/a><br \/>It is pouring rain out!  It has been all day!  Unfortunately this day has had us out all day.  In a bit, we are off to my in-laws to celebrate my sister-in-law turning 40!<\/p>\n<p>I am tired&#8230; because I was too lazy to go back down stairs to take my sleeping pill.  Yet when don&#8217;t take it, I either have insomnia all night or really bad dreams because I am not in deep sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrating&#8230; SO frustrating.  Oh well I suppose I will sleep tonight.  <\/p>\n<p>I am eager to start putting out all the Christmas stuff.  I have a lot of my shopping for gifts done!  How good does that feel?!!!<br \/>I love Christmas!!!  It is such a special time of year.  I love that it is such a homey holiday!  For me, it is about being home&#8230; enjoying the feeling of giving and being.<\/p>\n<p>I am trying really hard to appreciate the fact that I have a home I love, and a family that is everything to me.  I have been trying hard to not focus on the things that are missing&#8230; such as normal parents with a home etc.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that I am creating memories that my children will cherish and hold on to as they grow up and have families of their own.<br \/>I enjoy making traditions with the boys that are silly as well as meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t a season that is really about money as much as attitude.  It is about loving fully without holding back.  It is about giving from your heart&#8230; till it hurts.  It is about being thankful for all you DO have&#8230; even the &#8220;simple&#8221; things like having good health and love in your life.<\/p>\n<p>Gifts that are wrapped are just the icing on the cake.  I do love icing!<\/p>\n<p>Tis the season to be JOLLY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is pouring rain out! It has been all day! Unfortunately this day has had us out all day. In a bit, we are off to my in-laws to celebrate my sister-in-law turning 40! I am tired&#8230; because I was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=376\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}