{"id":7223,"date":"2021-08-03T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2021-06-25T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:44:07","slug":"your-forever-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=7223","title":{"rendered":"Your Forever Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Avery, Emerson, and Harper,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My sweet precious daughters.&nbsp;&nbsp;When I first decided to create this blog in 2012 and decided to keep it a secret until you were older, I knew this was going to be my greatest gift to you.&nbsp;&nbsp;I loved every moment of being a mom from the moment I was pregnant, to the moment that motherhood meant becoming a mom to two babies at once and then adding a third baby girl to the mix not even two years later. The moments, the experiences, the feelings, the smells, the tastes\u2026all of it was so vivid and beautiful and I never wanted to forget a moment.&nbsp;&nbsp;I knew the details would fade over time and I always wanted to remember.&nbsp;&nbsp;More importantly, I wanted you to know how I felt being your mom and re-live the moments again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last few years there have been questions about what a certain event was like or what your first word was, and honestly I can\u2019t remember some of the details like I thought I would.&nbsp;&nbsp;Every time I am asked, I think to myself I can\u2019t wait until I share this gift that I have been working on in secret all these years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a rough timeline of how long I would blog and I feel that we have reached that milestone.&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019ll still continue to write or document in some capacity as you get older, but for now it\u2019s time that themaddlife.com be a part of history you can enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love you with all my heart and I truly hope that you cherish this priceless gift and these moments and memories forever remain close to your hearts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love, Mommy&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Avery, Emerson, and Harper,&nbsp; My sweet precious daughters.&nbsp;&nbsp;When I first decided to create this blog in 2012 and decided to keep it a secret until you were older, I knew this was going to be my greatest gift to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=7223\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}