{"id":592,"date":"2008-12-13T05:39:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T09:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2008-12-13T05:41:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T09:41:12","slug":"the-blessings-of-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"The Blessings of Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">Every once in a while I visit her website.\u00c2\u00a0 She is a young woman by my standards.\u00c2\u00a0 She and her husband found out they could not have children so they began the process of adoption.\u00c2\u00a0 She started her blog &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flossiemae.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">www.flossiemae.blogspot.com<\/span><\/a> &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Waiting Child\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; to share her family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s journey into adoption and the struggles and pleasures of the process. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">At the end of their adoption trail &#8211; or should I say at the beginning &#8211; they found a precious little boy.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">To look at him he appears \u00e2\u20ac\u0153normal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 The reality is that he has a handicap they will deal with the rest of his life. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard a bit from her mother about how they are doing over these months and years.\u00c2\u00a0 The real story, however, is in the blog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">I encourage you to visit the site.\u00c2\u00a0 You will be inspired. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">My wish for you today is that you appreciate your parents for who and what they are.\u00c2\u00a0 They may not be perfect, but they likely do the best they can under their circumstances.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have parents that are extremely supportive, like my friend Diane is with her children, be thankful.\u00c2\u00a0 Look around you and compliment others for their good parenting skills. It is truly a gift.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">~ Joellen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I visit her website.\u00c2\u00a0 She is a young woman by my standards.\u00c2\u00a0 She and her husband found out they could not have children so they began the process of adoption.\u00c2\u00a0 She started her blog &#8211; www.flossiemae.blogspot.com &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Waiting Child\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; to share her family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s journey into adoption and the struggles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23,3,46,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-events","category-nature-events","category-relationships-singles","category-stress-relief","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}