{"id":12573,"date":"2008-05-11T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=12573"},"modified":"2017-10-29T07:26:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T12:26:48","slug":"mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Loralee-holding-Vienna-tightly-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"1151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Loralee-holding-Vienna-tightly-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Loralee-holding-Vienna-tightly-768x1236.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Loralee-holding-Vienna-tightly-636x1024.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Loralee-holding-Vienna-tightly-810x1304.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Loralee-holding-Vienna-tightly-1140x1835.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Loralee-holding-Vienna-tightly.jpg 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/e3-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/e3-2-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/e3-2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Motherhood has changed my life. I <strong>love<\/strong> my children. They have made me a different woman, a better woman. Last year, I had no children in my home. This year I have a son <em>and<\/em> a daughter. God works in the most miraculous ways. I feel so lucky to be a mom. Yet, I can&#8217;t celebrate today without celebrating my children&#8217;s birthmothers. They have given me everything. How do you thank someone for giving you everything? Mr. E&#8217;s birthmother gave her life in childbirth to bring his little body into the world. Princess V&#8217;s birthmother also sacrificed so so much to bring her into this world and my home. Their names will always be sacred in this house. I owe them so much. They gave birth to their bodies for me and I am trying to give birth to their spirits for them. How do you thank someone for giving you everything? The only answer I can come up with is to just always remember them and what they did for you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motherhood has changed my life. I love my children. They have made me a different woman, a better woman. Last year, I had no children in my home. This year I have a son and a daughter. God works in the most miraculous ways. I feel so lucky to be a mom. Yet, I can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1018,1034],"tags":[1155,2023,2058,2057],"class_list":["post-12573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adoption-catharsis","category-lewis-family-2","tag-adoption","tag-lewisfamily","tag-mothersday","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}