{"id":9664,"date":"2016-05-19T05:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T05:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2016-05-19T05:43:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T05:43:03","slug":"happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/19\/happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the sweet heart of my Lydia:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_3243-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9665\" alt=\"IMG_3243 (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_3243-1-e1463635617887-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a>She did the dishes for me without being asked. We had a lot of lovely bonding time today, and I am so, so grateful for that. Sometimes her sweet, pure heart is masked by the neurological constraints of childhood. I&#8217;m talking under-developed executive function, a hazy grasp of social norms, inappropriate vocal decibels, etc.. But these difficulties are exquisitely minimalized whenever I get a peek into Lydia&#8217;s soul. There is so much goodness, intelligence, affection, industriousness and compassion there. The clean dishes didn&#8217;t tell me all of that, but they reminded me that I am lucky to be this girl&#8217;s mama.<\/p>\n<p>We also had a long mommy-daughter bonding session after the other two kids had gone to bed. Lydia had a nightmare that there were bugs in her ear. We solved that by cleaning her ears. It&#8217;s my favorite thing to do, and we got to talk and tell each other how much we loved each other.<\/p>\n<p>Today was the best day in a string of pretty great days. I feel lucky. Blessed. Happy. These feelings make me suspect trials must be around the corner because life really isn&#8217;t supposed to be this good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the sweet heart of my Lydia: She did the dishes for me without being asked. We had a lot of lovely bonding time today, and I am so, so grateful for that. Sometimes her sweet, pure heart is masked by the neurological constraints of childhood. I&#8217;m talking under-developed executive function, a hazy grasp of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/19\/happy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy<\/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-9664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664","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=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}