{"id":4611,"date":"2010-10-06T13:55:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T18:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2010-10-06T20:25:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T01:25:53","slug":"take-a-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=4611","title":{"rendered":"Just a moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I often tell myself to &#8220;take a moment.&#8221;\u00a0 I stop in my tracks and think about what I&#8217;m saying or doing and just reflect.\u00a0 Is this truly going to matter tomorrow?\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never been one to sweat the small stuff.\u00a0\u00a0 I try not to overreact.\u00a0 (In fact, I usually <em>under <\/em>react, which is trait I inherited from my mother.)\u00a0\u00a0 You all know I&#8217;ve followed many heart babies and families and have used the heart community as a great source of\u00a0 support and strength.\u00a0 Too often I read of babies who just couldn&#8217;t keep up the fight.\u00a0 This week, I&#8217;ve been saddend by two of these babies,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.team-ewan.com\/2010\/10\/hope-that-we-have.html\">Ewan<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/fierceandfiesty.blogspot.com\/\"> Joshua<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CHD is ugly and horrible and I just don&#8217;t understand why it can&#8217;t be figured out.\u00a0 Quite frankly, it makes me furious sometimes and when that happens, I stop and take a moment.\u00a0 I have Mary Clare with me here and now.\u00a0 Why should I be so concerned with something that I really have no control over?\u00a0 I do, however, have control over how I face life.\u00a0 The short precious lives of these two amazing babies will hopefully make everyone, myself included, stop and take a moment to be thankful for the here and now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Life is so precious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often tell myself to &#8220;take a moment.&#8221;\u00a0 I stop in my tracks and think about what I&#8217;m saying or doing and just reflect.\u00a0 Is this truly going to matter tomorrow?\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never been one to sweat the small stuff.\u00a0\u00a0 I try not to overreact.\u00a0 (In fact, I usually under react, which is trait I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}