Summertime…fun in the sun!<\/p>\n
I AM grateful for the little delights – popsicles, swimming with friends, cold drinks, walks on the beach, ice cream and sandals, to name a few!<\/p>\n
There is also a sadness this summer. I never knew there’d come a summer that my young kids wouldn’t be with me full<\/em> time. I cannot begin to express all the emotions surrounding this- yet another cut caused by divorce.<\/p>\n SO many<\/em> moments we just have no way of preparing for…without warning, the ground beneath us gives way and we have to quickly navigate choppy waters…<\/p>\n What difficult moment\/s are you processing this summer?<\/p>\n I AM learning to appreciate every.little.moment. We are not promised anything more than this present<\/em> moment.<\/p>\n Common Day Hero:<\/span><\/strong><\/em> The strength of a thousand women before me runs through my veins. You, AmminiAmmachi, were a petite bundle of dynamite. Your faith, your kindness and your courage live on in me and your great-granddaughter. Today, I dedicate this post to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summertime…fun in the sun! I AM grateful for the little delights – popsicles, swimming with friends, cold drinks, walks on the beach, ice cream and sandals, to name a few! There is also a sadness this summer. I never knew there’d come a summer that my young kids wouldn’t be with me full time. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,11,216],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-spiritual","tag-strength","tag-summer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lalijean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ethan-robertson-SYx3UCHZJlo-unsplash.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}