define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":4382,"date":"2012-06-18T00:17:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T14:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2012-06-18T00:17:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T14:17:33","slug":"simple-sundays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/4382\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Sundays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my strategies for keeping sane this week, has been to slow down. Slow down my life, slow down my mind, simplify even the simplest things. <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, Jasper had a speech therapy assessment &#8211; mild language &#038; speech delay and he&#8217;ll need semi-regular sessions.<br \/>\nWednesday, I spent half in a procastination coma but managed to put together my new cheapie elliptical, twice, because i put some parts together backwards.<br \/>\nThursday, I burst into tears infront of the Autism parents group (we&#8217;ll have to pull out of there soon. My choice).<br \/>\nFriday, school + therapy + playgroup + force fed by my parents<br \/>\nSaturday, 2 kids + rain induced cabin fever<\/p>\n<p>Sunday was a great place to start my plan for a simple day. Regan is home, no appointments to get to and nothing to confront, there&#8217;s no <em>rush<\/em> to do something or be anyone else but ourselves. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7095\/7385937064_56a806f6af.jpg\"  height=\"320\" width=\"480\" alt=\"apples\"\/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8004\/7385937324_6a0065a3b3.jpg\"  height=\"320\" width=\"480\" alt=\"apple pies\"\/><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s time to bake mini apple pies from whatever is in the pantry. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7096\/7385936602_9c192f692c.jpg\"  height=\"320\" width=\"480\" alt=\"jasper&amp;daddy\"\/><br \/>\nTime to play dinosaurs in the backyard. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7074\/7385936806_d4e182939d.jpg\"  height=\"320\" width=\"480\" alt=\"ilovemydaddy\"\/><br \/>\nTime to take a swing in the sunshine. <\/p>\n<p>There will be alot of hard work and hard time ahead of us, but there&#8217;s also alot of light and alot of love. There&#8217;s alot of joy in the simple things that we get to do today, because we can and because we have each other in these moments. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7072\/7385936350_7522f23be7.jpg\"  height=\"320\" width=\"480\" alt=\"jovie hello\"\/><br \/>\nEven before the diagnosis, but especially since, I&#8217;m becoming more and more purposeful on how I spend my time. By myself, with my kids and with my family. Making <em>time <\/em>has never been more important and I&#8217;m very aware of how things can change not just because of Rett Syndrome, but also because that&#8217;s what life is about. Change. Surprises. And you can either roll with it, or not move forward at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my strategies for keeping sane this week, has been to slow down. Slow down my life, slow down my mind, simplify even the simplest things. Tuesday, Jasper had a speech therapy assessment &#8211; mild language &#038; speech delay and he&#8217;ll need semi-regular sessions. Wednesday, I spent half in a procastination coma but managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anything-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4402,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}