{"id":5449,"date":"2026-07-26T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:01:54","slug":"how-about-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5449","title":{"rendered":"how about now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning, although I\u2019m not just sure<br>I\u2019m feeling great<br>my heart is full to overflowing with<br>gratitude<br><br>I can say, first of all<br>it is Sunday<br>and the first part of Sundays I do love<br>a day to just be<br>ease<br>easy like Sunday morning, I mean<br>they\u2019ve written a song about it<br><br>Sunday evenings are a different story, where I might<br>get into a mild-to-major frenzy about the week ahead,<br>however, we won\u2019t talk about that, let\u2019s just stick with<br>my early disposition, shall we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this Sunday morning starts just, I believe<br>as a Sunday morning should<br>the day awakening quiet<br>and slow<br>bird song in the garden<br>and a little bunny<br>while in the chair next to mine<br>not today my love, but my \u2018other\u2019<br>puppy love<br>snores<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when I am a few chapters in to a new book<br>and fully immersed<br>I hear the back door open<br>and a voice&#8230; wondering if anyone is home<br>initial panic strikes, (obviously forgot my no trespassing sign) <br>it only takes a few seconds<br>to realize<br>it\u2019s my son and his wife<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>now, always, always, always<br>any day, every day<br>I am happy to see any one of my kids<br>so absolutely there is that,<br>but after this little visit<br>I am filled to the brim, with how very grateful I am<br>for the gift<br>that is my lovely daughter-in-law<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as a parent, you know<br>you always want<br>that your children will be happy<br>that life<br>will treat them kind<br>and as a Mother, you know <br>that your child or each <br>of your children <br>has <br>a very special heart<br>(as part of it comes&#8230; from your own)<br>for my son to have joined his life<br>to someone so<br>perfectly<br>matched<br>to him<br>fills me with enormous heartwarming joy<br><br>our dear Emily is<br>wildly intelligent, has a wicked, fine tuned <br>sense of humour<br>is quite remarkable in all ways<br>she is artistic, creative, confident, compassionate, courageous<br>and<br>kind<br>she is beautiful in every perfect sense<br>of the word<br>everything from the inside<br>out<br><br>and I will continue to be grateful<br>for just what she brings to our lives<br>in loving<br>our<br>son<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>anyway,  that&#8217;s just what I&#8217;m thinking about today<br>and now I&#8217;ve said it out loud<br>because<br>I believe that&#8217;s <br>worth doing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>so&#8230;   how about you?<br><br>I hope you<br>have something or someone<br>to be extra, extra grateful for too<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and maybe now <br>is just the right time<br>to say it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and always,<br>keep an eye<br>on<br>the <br>clouds \u2665<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, although I\u2019m not just sureI\u2019m feeling greatmy heart is full to overflowing withgratitude I can say, first of allit is Sundayand the first part of Sundays I do lovea day to just beeaseeasy like Sunday morning, I meanthey\u2019ve&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5449\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[446,195,223,74,85],"class_list":["post-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inthiswritersgarden","tag-livingmygratitude","tag-noticelife","tag-toyouthisday","tag-writelife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5454,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions\/5454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}