I very much believe in signs and little messages from the universe, and I’m pretty sure I got one a few nights ago, when I was still feeling tired and frustrated and generally emotional from Zoe’s sickness and subsequent sleep problems. I was flipping through a parenting magazine that had arrived that day when I landed on an article entitled “Sick Daze.” I was hooked by the first line – “Birdy is sick again” – and I happily gobbled up the author’s words about life with a sick child (and how tough it can be). But it was a paragraph towards the end that really got to me. The mom wrote: <\/p>\n
“…The trick is not to be jaded. I try to remember how it felt when they were new and I longed to be the very muscle of their hearts so that I could be sure the blood would get pumped properly through their veins. I try to remember there are parents everywhere, wheeling and dealing with God over their children’s lives, for whom a garden-variety virus would be something like a gift. I try to remember that these snuffly little annoying children will leave us one day.”<\/em><\/p>\n I knew right then that someone was telling me something, and I’m pretty sure I went to sleep feeling a little less tired and frustrated. Thanks, “sign.”<\/p>\n -M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I very much believe in signs and little messages from the universe, and I’m pretty sure I got one a few nights ago, when I was still feeling tired and frustrated and generally emotional from Zoe’s sickness and subsequent sleep problems. I was flipping through a parenting magazine that had arrived that day when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20seventeen-to-eighteen-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}