{"id":39,"date":"2005-05-27T14:34:03","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T19:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2005-06-14T19:03:41","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T00:03:41","slug":"be-where-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/be-where-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Be Little"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/little.jpg\" alt=\"ben graduating from preschool in his cap and gown, being hugged by his brother\" \/><\/div>\n<p>My baby is growing up!  My little Benny Bear will start Kindergarten this fall.  Oh how I adore these early years.  Crayons and Play-doh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildabear.com\/\">Build-A-Bear<\/a> and Dr. Seuss, T-ball and water balloon fights&#8230;I breath it all in deeply&#8230;not wanting to miss a single moment.  <\/p>\n<p>I do have to remind myself that in order to be fully present in the moment, I must experience it with all my senses and never try to pause or rewind.   But I&#8217;ve caught myself clinging to this stage.   <em>Can we slow down?  It is all moving too fast! <\/em>And then I remember times in my life when I lingered too long while the world moved on.  An empty concert hall after the performance.  Silence.  A resort after the conference.  Lonely.  A deserted racetrack.  Lifeless.  Time to move forward.  Another adventure awaits!  Don&#8217;t miss it, silly girl, because you were lookin&#8217; back.<\/p>\n<p>So for today, I&#8217;ll revel in being Mommy and do my very best to let my children be little.<\/p>\n<p>excerpt from <em>Let Them Be Little<\/em> by Lonestar<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let them be little &#8217;cause they&#8217;re only that way for a while<br \/>\nGive them hope, give them praise, give them love every day<br \/>\nLet them cry, let them giggle, let them sleep in the middle<br \/>\nOh just let them be little<\/p>\n<p>So innocent,<br \/>\na precious soul,<br \/>\nyou turn around<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time to let them go<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/little.jpg\" alt=\"ben graduating from preschool in his cap and gown, being hugged by his brother\" \/><\/div>\n<p>My baby is growing up!  My little Benny Bear will start Kindergarten this fall.  Oh how I adore these early years.  Crayons and Play-doh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildabear.com\/\">Build-A-Bear<\/a> and Dr. Seuss, T-ball and water balloon fights&#8230;I breath it all in deeply&#8230;not wanting to miss a single moment.  <\/p>\n<p>I do have to remind myself that in order to be fully present in the moment, I must experience it with all my senses and never try to pause or rewind.   But I&#8217;ve caught myself clinging to this stage.   <em>Can we slow down?  It is all moving too fast! <\/em>And then I remember times in my life when I lingered too long while the world moved on.  An empty concert hall after the performance.  Silence.  A resort after the conference.  Lonely.  A deserted racetrack.  Lifeless.  Time to move forward.  Another adventure awaits!  Don&#8217;t miss it, silly girl, because you were lookin&#8217; back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}