{"id":4138,"date":"2013-10-19T16:16:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T21:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2013\/10\/19\/lucky\/"},"modified":"2013-10-19T16:16:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T21:16:55","slug":"lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2013\/10\/19\/lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain moments in your life when you come to the realization of just how lucky you are.&#160; Today was one of those moments for me.&#160; I am lucky to have two precious and healthy children I can love and kiss on each and everyday.&#160; There are those in the world that long to have that luxury and privilege.&#160;&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I have some very dear friends who have been on the adoption journey for over 2.5 years.&#160; They have had many ups and downs along the way and today was just another one of those battles that they must fight and endure.&#160; They are fighting to love on their daughter while I am lucky enough to snuggle mine daily.&#160; I am luckier than I deserve.<\/p>\n<p>After finding out this disappointing news from my friend my son woke up and I just clung to him.&#160; I sat and nursed him in the dark and all sorts of thoughts ran through my head.&#160; I thought of dear Bella and her precious laughter and catch phrase, &quot;Eat up a Toe&quot; and how difficult her death was.&#160; I thought of sweet Simo who bounced back from deaths door only to die too young when his house collapsed.&#160; I thought of our hundred or so children at the hostel who have lost countless family members in their short lives.&#160; I thought of all those families I know who have tried in earnest to have children, but for whatever reason have not been able to.&#160; I thought of just how lucky I am to have two healthy children to love on each and everyday.&#160; This luck I will cling to as I go to bed for the evening and look forward to their sweet hugs and snuggles in the morning.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Sunset, Max 3 months 139\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sunset, Max 3 months 139\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sunset-Max-3-months-139.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain moments in your life when you come to the realization of just how lucky you are.&#160; Today was one of those moments for me.&#160; I am lucky to have two precious and healthy children I can love and kiss on each and everyday.&#160; There are those in the world that long to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-luck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}