{"id":7,"date":"2014-02-07T06:06:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T06:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2014-02-07T06:06:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T06:06:01","slug":"christmas-morning-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Morning 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC03491.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11\" alt=\"_DSC0349[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC03491-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC03491-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC03491-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC03411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10\" alt=\"Christmas 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC03411-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC03411-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC03411-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>May I never forget the joy of Christmas with these two littles. \u00a0In the midst of sleepless nights due to teething, nightmares, and the stress of keeping up with life&#8217;s commitments (aka the laundry and dishes, not to mention bills) something magical happened this past Christmas morning. \u00a0Here I was in a cute little cottage of a house with a huge backyard with two smiling kiddos and a husband who still loves me after a decade&#8230; \u00a0There are have been several moments lately when the reality of all the blessings in my life come and smack me in the face. \u00a0Christmas morning was one of these times. \u00a0I sometimes don&#8217;t know what to do with the abundance of grace and blessings in my life, so I squander it by stressing on this big bill or that stack of dishes, or some fight with Zach about who&#8217;s turn it is to get up in the middle of night. \u00a0I make those the things of life instead of what is real. \u00a0And this is what is real &#8211; I have an amazing family, \u00a0I get to raise two wonderful babies, I have a husband who helps me to take myself less seriously and loosens me up a bit, AND I serve a God who is victorious and lavishes his grace on me. \u00a0Yes may I never forget the joy of Christmas with these two littles. \u00a0Because this I think is what truly matters, this is what I should dwell on &#8211; this is God&#8217;s lavish unending grace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May I never forget the joy of Christmas with these two littles. \u00a0In the midst of sleepless nights due to teething, nightmares, and the stress of keeping up with life&#8217;s commitments (aka the laundry and dishes, not to mention bills) something magical happened this past Christmas morning. \u00a0Here I was in a cute little cottage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}