{"id":2959,"date":"2010-06-28T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2010-06-28T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T02:19:08","slug":"cherishing-the-quiet-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=2959","title":{"rendered":"Cherishing the quiet moments…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning Jaia, Wes and I set out for our daily walk. \u00a0It was chillier than I expected, but a quick wardrobe change and we were ready to go.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, my idea of a sun-soaked, blissful walk with my littles quickly changed into a bit of a nightmare. \u00a0Wes cried, Jaia grumped, the sun hid, Wes screamed, Jaia fell and scraped her knees (both of them), Jaia cried – and we weren’t even halfway home yet. \u00a0Sigh.<\/p>\n

But then, back home with food in our bellies, all was right in our little world again. \u00a0As I sit here typing, Wes is sleeping in my arms, his breathing is quiet, rhythmic and sweet. \u00a0Jaia has hijacked a few of her brother’s things \u00a0– bouncy chair, basinette, blankets – and is playing quietly with her favourite stuffies (from what I can tell they are currently in a boat on the ocean).<\/p>\n

Just when I was thinking that the day could get no worse, it didn’t. \u00a0It got better. \u00a0The moments won’t always be quiet. \u00a0Some will be loud and hard. \u00a0Some will be loud but amazing. \u00a0I’m still learning how to juggle 1+1 kids, and what I try to keep reminding myself of is that, quiet or loud, the moments are fleeting. \u00a0Before I know it, my littles won’t be so little anymore and I know that I will miss the moments that I\u00a0wished away. \u00a0Instead of grumbling, from now on, I’m choosing to cherish.<\/p>\n

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This morning Jaia, Wes and I set out for our daily walk. \u00a0It was chillier than I expected, but a quick wardrobe change and we were ready to go. Unfortunately, my idea of a sun-soaked, blissful walk with my littles quickly changed into a bit of a nightmare. \u00a0Wes cried, Jaia grumped, the sun hid, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[26,28,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}