{"id":14972,"date":"2018-04-06T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/?p=14972"},"modified":"2018-04-07T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T12:42:29","slug":"mary-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/06\/mary-epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Friday evening Abe went to a hockey game with his team while the kids\u00a0and I baked banana bread and watched\u00a0Coco<\/em>. During the emotional climax when Miguel starts singing to his Grandma Coco, Mary started shuddering next to me. I turned and discovered tears streaming down her face. As the song progressed Mary started to sob, reaching underneath her little red glasses to wipe away her crocodile tears.<\/p>\n

Then Mary buried her head in me and wailed, and my heart just melted. I also felt stricken with remorse and grief, because I realized in that moment that for two years I have been assuming Mary’s frequent meltdowns were something she could control. I don’t know why I’ve been so stupid, but as I watched her tender heart break for movie characters, I realized that Mary is genuinely sensitive and needs tender treatment.<\/p>\n

I spent the rest of the evening petting, hugging, and cuddling with all of the kids. After the movie was over I let them eat warm banana bread while we all had silly conversations. I marveled at how beautiful they all are.<\/p>\n

I am so lucky to be their mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday evening Abe went to a hockey game with his team while the kids\u00a0and I baked banana bread and watched\u00a0Coco. During the emotional climax when Miguel starts singing to his Grandma Coco, Mary started shuddering next to me. I turned and discovered tears streaming down her face. As the song progressed Mary started to … Continue reading Mary epiphany<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14979,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972\/revisions\/14979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}