{"id":1245,"date":"2010-12-27T10:31:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2010-12-27T16:28:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T21:28:26","slug":"my-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"My Gift&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>It&#8217;s Monday&#8230; Sanj is off to see a patient&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_9423.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1246\" title=\"DSC_9423\" src=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_9423-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_9423-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_9423-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a child who is being fitted for hearing aids for the first time. \u00a0As much as I hate when he does this on his day off&#8230; (because everyone has an \u00a0emergency)&#8230; this is pretty neat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Josh is up. \u00a0That boy is such a morning person! \u00a0Thankfully, my mom is here to amuse him as she is a morning person too. \u00a0The boys are enjoying a breakfast only their Ammama (that&#8217;s what they call my mom) can make.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So&#8230; I am at 993 post. \u00a0I had thought that by 1000 I would have finished my book. \u00a0Ha! \u00a0Here&#8217;s the thing, this year was so busy. \u00a0I took on projects that were extremely time consuming. \u00a0I was hardly in my office except to write a blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is the year&#8230; January 6th, the boys are back to school. \u00a0I am sorry but that is the dumbest thing&#8230; going back to school on a Thursday? \u00a0Who comes up with this stuff?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yet&#8230; I am feeling myself gearing up&#8230; getting ready to write&#8230; my heart seems to pound at a faster pace just thinking of it. \u00a0I feel like I have lived a full life and yet&#8230; I feel like babe about to be born and take my first gasp of breath of the new life ahead of me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I had the greatest present from Sanj&#8230; of course he always gives me fabulous gifts. \u00a0He is very creative and thoughtful. \u00a0Every year, he surprises me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This year, I had no idea what I would want. \u00a0I am the kind of person that if I need it, I go get it. \u00a0Clothes&#8230; I hate being bought clothes&#8230; I am weird sizes and it varies depending on the store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Totally off subject&#8230; here&#8217;s why I hate others buying me clothes&#8230;. a few Christmases ago, I had been working out, lost a bit of weight and came home bragging that I could fit in a Lululemon pair of pants, size 4. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> Sanj, bless him, heard the Lululemon part and size 4.<br \/>\nImagine my surprise and discombobulation when Christmas morning, among other things, there was \u00a0SIZE 4 sweatshirt. \u00a0Um&#8230;. I haven&#8217;t fit into something that itsy bitsy since I was 12 years old. \u00a0 As I held it up to me, I looked at him and said, &#8220;This doesn&#8217;t even hold one of my boobs!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">lol<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Anyway, I will admit, I am a very hard person to shop for. \u00a0I wondered what in the world he had come up with, especially since he looked so pleased with himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Christmas eve&#8230; I got pajamas. \u00a0I buy everyone pajamas for Christmas Eve. \u00a0Yah, Sanj!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then&#8230; there was a series of packages numbered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#1&#8230; socks \u00a0(I always buy Sanj funky socks every year&#8230; going back to a time when that was all I had money to buy him).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#2 \u00a0A Beautiful Cross Pen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#3 \u00a02 Leather bound notebooks&#8230; (this is a fetish of mine.. I love funky, cool notebooks and pens).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#4 A printer&#8230; OK&#8230; I did ask for a printer for my office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#5 \u00a0A backpack to hold my laptop and gear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A Bunch of Papers&#8230; inside the backpack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>A TRIP TO FORT LAUDERDALE TO A WRITER&#8217;S CONFERENCE!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh my goodness!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Time away, someplace warm&#8230; and to write and be taught, mentored&#8230; (I refuse to call it school&#8230; ugh!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How much I love this man! \u00a0OK&#8230; I loved him when he bought me a size four top&#8230; yet what I love is his faith in me. \u00a0He believes in me. \u00a0He helps me fulfill my dreams. \u00a0He dreams with me&#8230; he lets me dream big! \u00a0He gives me room to be me&#8230; and sometimes that requires a lot of room!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sanj is all I ever really want or need for Christmas. \u00a0As Jerry Maguire\u00a0said best, <em>&#8220;He completes me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Dear God,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong> Yes&#8230; I am dreaming big&#8230; I am going to write my book, I am going to be published and I am going to make a difference in somebody&#8217;s life.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Jesus, this is my prayer. \u00a0Oh, and May Your will be done. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Amen.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>PS&#8230; Thank you for my blessings&#8230; the biggest one being Sanj!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>I love you.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday&#8230; Sanj is off to see a patient&#8230; a child who is being fitted for hearing aids for the first time. \u00a0As much as I hate when he does this on his day off&#8230; (because everyone has an \u00a0emergency)&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=1245\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,28,6,1,10,32,13,140,11,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}