{"id":953,"date":"2008-05-12T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T13:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=953"},"modified":"2008-05-12T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T13:40:28","slug":"tulips-and-dandelions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Tulips and Dandelions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yesterday was my second Mother’s Day.\u00a0 It still strikes me as so odd that I’m the mama now and not just the daughter and daughter-in-law anymore.\u00a0 I have\u00a0this adorable little reminder running around (and now singing!), but I still have a hard time thinking of it that way.\u00a0 It’s just still so new.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This year, we celebrated the day by being forced out of the house for showings.\u00a0 Thankfully,\u00a0Dan had a plan.\u00a0\u00a0He’s has always had a knack for knowing EXACTLY what I might want to do to celebrate special days, and\u00a0yesterday was no exception.\u00a0 He planned for us to head downtown,\u00a0see the tulips and take pictures.\u00a0 It was perfect – the weather, the scene, the company, the bean.\u00a0 Just perfect.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jaia is suddenly crazy for flowers.\u00a0 She stops whatever she’s doing if she sees one and has to have it.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the only pickable flowers around are dandelions.\u00a0 But she doesn’t care.\u00a0 Nor does she think a dandelion is any less a flower than the ones we purposely plant in our gardens.\u00a0 She sees the beauty in the colour and the wonder of it all, something we as adults have long lost since someone told us they were just weeds<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0I find it amusing that as we watch Jaia learn new words and new\u00a0concepts everyday, she teaches us a little too.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve suddenly been feeling excited when I notice a patch of dandelions because I’ll\u00a0be able to point them out to her and see her eyes light up, rather than cringe at the unsightly patch of weeds along the road.\u00a0 It turns out she’s a pretty wise little bean…and I’m a very lucky mama.<\/p>\n

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And, of course, we want to wish a happy Mother’s Day to our Mamas and Grandmothers.\u00a0\u00a0 We hope your day was just perfect too.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday was my second Mother’s Day.\u00a0 It still strikes me as so odd that I’m the mama now and not just the daughter and daughter-in-law anymore.\u00a0 I have\u00a0this adorable little reminder running around (and now singing!), but I still have a hard time thinking of it that way.\u00a0 It’s just still so new.\u00a0 This year, […]<\/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":[24,26,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}