{"id":1571,"date":"2010-04-29T20:38:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T00:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2010-04-29T20:38:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T00:38:19","slug":"imitator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/?p=1571","title":{"rendered":"Imitator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dropcap-first\">Lately I\u2019ve become more<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1572  alignright\" style=\"border: 3px solid black; margin: 6px;\" title=\"block sky \" src=\"http:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/block-sky-1-of-1-629x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"535\" \/> aware of the things I say, mainly because my words often come back to me out of Sky\u2019s mouth. The other night she was having a bath and I\u2019d just finished washing her hair, one of her most dreaded activities. As she rubbed the water out of her eyes she said, \u201cSee Skylar? It\u2019s not so bad!\u201d Yesterday I was trying to make dinner while she fussed and whined and held onto my legs. \u201cCalm down Skylar,\u201d I told her. Suddenly she stopped and said to herself, \u201cTake a deep breath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great to watch Sky\u2019s brain at work, taking in new words and trying them out for herself. It\u2019s also a little scary to think about how closely she\u2019s listening to everything we say. She makes me want to be more careful. And she makes me laugh a lot. Grief over my dad\u2019s death has become much more intense lately. I\u2019m not really sure why it\u2019s hitting me so hard now, other than maybe the permanence of death takes time to absorb. I am so grateful for Micah and Sky, the energy they draw out of me, and the laughter they fill our house with every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I\u2019ve become more aware of the things I say, mainly because my words often come back to me out of Sky\u2019s mouth. The other night she was having a bath and I\u2019d just finished washing her hair, one of her most dreaded activities. As she rubbed the water out of her eyes she said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[29,31],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-motherhood","tag-faith","tag-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}