{"id":12721,"date":"2009-02-09T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=12721"},"modified":"2009-02-09T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T03:36:00","slug":"ice-cream-makes-me-such-a-better-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/ice-cream-makes-me-such-a-better-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cream Makes Me Such a Better Mom."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><object height=\"525\" width=\"660\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6I8FCgaoaG8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6I8FCgaoaG8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"660\" height=\"525\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I would move Heaven and Earth for my children. They are my greatest treasures in the world. My love for them truly knows no bounds. In all honesty, I wake up every morning excited to just be with them. But (again) in all honesty, motherhood is not for the faint hearted. I am constantly praying for guidance on the best way to nurture, love, provide, and discipline them. And once in a blue moon&#8230;.after a long long day (like today)&#8230; and when Lee is on an extra business trip (like tonight)&#8230; and when I have cleaned up a lot of unmentionable things (like a few minutes ago) &#8211; I pull out the ice cream and am relieved to hear the endearing sound of their little sleep noises. And somehow the ice cream brings a renewal of my spirit making the next morning so much more. A woman must have invented ice cream&#8230; or a husband that was really really in trouble. Either way, I owe a lot to the ice cream inventors. Ice cream makes me such a better mom. What&#8217;s your favorite flavor?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would move Heaven and Earth for my children. They are my greatest treasures in the world. My love for them truly knows no bounds. In all honesty, I wake up every morning excited to just be with them. But (again) in all honesty, motherhood is not for the faint hearted. I am constantly praying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12721","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=12721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}