{"id":12346,"date":"2017-12-04T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=12346"},"modified":"2017-12-03T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T03:31:06","slug":"morning-snuggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=12346","title":{"rendered":"Morning Snuggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12343\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12343\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12343\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/24251050_10155406559119102_998797273_o-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/24251050_10155406559119102_998797273_o-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/24251050_10155406559119102_998797273_o-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/24251050_10155406559119102_998797273_o-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/24251050_10155406559119102_998797273_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mornings can be hard.\u00a0 I&#8217;m tired and not ready to start the day.\u00a0 I just want to sleep more.<\/p>\n<p>But these darling children wake up happy and eager to start another day.\u00a0 Just like clockwork at 6:30 they are up and I can hear their little footsteps pitter-pattering towards our room.\u00a0 Then everyone happily piles onto our bed for morning snuggles while Levi drinks his bottle and then the big kids start getting ready for school.<\/p>\n<p>I know this is yet another phase and someday these kiddos won&#8217;t think it&#8217;s cool to climb on Mom and Dad&#8217;s bed and snuggle.\u00a0 Someday they&#8217;ll be just as crabby as me when we have to wake them up for school.\u00a0 (Haha!) And someday these little faces smiling up at me won&#8217;t be full of chubby cheeks and toothless grins.<\/p>\n<p>So, I will do my best to embrace this phase.\u00a0 Enjoy those smiles.\u00a0 And be thankful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mornings can be hard.\u00a0 I&#8217;m tired and not ready to start the day.\u00a0 I just want to sleep more. But these darling children wake up happy and eager to start another day.\u00a0 Just like clockwork at 6:30 they are up and I can hear their little footsteps pitter-pattering towards our room.\u00a0 Then everyone happily piles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12354,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346\/revisions\/12354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}