{"id":6848,"date":"2011-10-06T10:39:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2011-10-07T17:40:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T22:40:40","slug":"kisses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=6848","title":{"rendered":"Kisses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How is it that the joys and anguishes of life so often collide?\u00a0 When we suddenly smile and laugh through swollen eyes and falling tears.\u00a0 When a rainbow peeks out from behind a black tumultuous cloud.\u00a0 When we know that letting go of something so difficult to release is best and trust in what lies ahead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This week has been a very difficult one for me.\u00a0 Pain, guilt, bitterness.\u00a0 Sadness from all that I am unable to do.\u00a0 Letting go of control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All are tribulations we face daily. Not just me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m forcing myself to focus on the glimmer of small kisses thrown my way throughout the day.\u00a0 Mary Clare snuggled with me in bed this morning and rubbed my shaven <em>and very stubbly head<\/em>, as if that&#8217;s the way it should be.\u00a0 A friend dropped off a warm Pumpkin Spice Latte early this chilly morning.\u00a0 Mel made a quick detour home to kiss me and tuck me in for a late morning nap.\u00a0 I just received a super exciting phone call about our family that sent sunshine straight through my soul!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This season may be filled with pain and tears, but aren&#8217;t they all?\u00a0 I guess as long as we search for and hold onto those small kisses, we truly appreciate all that we are blessed with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is it that the joys and anguishes of life so often collide?\u00a0 When we suddenly smile and laugh through swollen eyes and falling tears.\u00a0 When a rainbow peeks out from behind a black tumultuous cloud.\u00a0 When we know that letting go of something so difficult to release is best and trust in what lies [&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-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","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=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6857,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions\/6857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}