{"id":229,"date":"2009-07-21T07:32:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T11:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2009-07-22T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T11:24:08","slug":"priorities-july-21-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/priorities-july-21-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Priorities: July 21, Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Priorities<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"My

My four children<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cA hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

-Successories<\/span><\/p>\n

Not long after Aaron and I got married we went into a Successories store they sell motivational messages with stunning pictures attached to the message.\u00a0 Priorities is the one you see above.\u00a0 He bought the large 16X20 framed one with a print of a little girl in front of a sunset for me years ago.\u00a0 It is hanging in our foyer.\u00a0 It is the first thing you see when you walk into my house.\u00a0 It is what I live by. It is against what the majority of our culture believes.<\/span><\/p>\n

When we went camping this weekend we rented a boat and everyone was able to go tubing and swimming off the boat it was lots of fun.\u00a0 One evening I was able to take a sunset ride with a friend and her family.\u00a0 It was unbelievable how still the water was it was like a mirror reflecting the surrounding trees.\u00a0 The sky was a pink\/purple hue.\u00a0 The man who owned the boat was teaching his niece to drive the boat, he of course was holding on to the steering wheel as well.\u00a0 My good friend her mom said to me “I wish I could give this to my daughter, I grew up coming to the lake on a boat, I want her to have it too”.\u00a0 My friend is not caught up in the material possession thing, she wanted her child to be able to appreciate nature and have those same experiences as she did as a child.\u00a0 We want to give our children all the good things we ever had not because we want to spoil them but because we love them so much.\u00a0 I said to the mom ” I know you want to be the one to give her these experiences but she is making memories with her uncle that will never be forgotten.\u00a0 She will relate going to the lake and boats and fun times tubing with him and you as well.\u00a0 It’s great that another member of your family can share those precious times with your children.”<\/span><\/p>\n

We want to be the ones to give our children the world.\u00a0 But I have learned over the years that we need to share the giving with others.\u00a0 Each year around my children’s birthdays they have an Oma\/Opa day and a Grandma\/Grandpa day.\u00a0 It is a day that each of my children go for the day with each set of grandparents and they get to go where they want and do what they want and spend the entire day with them.\u00a0 These times will be forever etched into their memories because it was time spent with someone they loved so much.\u00a0 I want to be the one to give them time and spoil them rotten but what a gift it is to let them be loved so much by others as well.\u00a0 I am not saying shove your children off on others at all! I am saying try sharing the memories of your children’s childhood with other family members as well.\u00a0 We can give our children things but what they want is time and what a gift to let them have time with grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

So today think about it.\u00a0 Are you in a family situation in which you would feel comfortable letting your child have a grandparent day.\u00a0 Do you have a brother\/sister you would like to spend the day with along with your children. Don’t send your child alone if you don’t feel comfortable you can be right by their side but taking the time to let them be a part of new memories will always be treasured by your child as well as yourself. How wonderful is it for a child to know he\/she was important to not just to\u00a0his\/her parents but to his\/her grandparents and aunts or uncles as well, the more they are loved the more they will love!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Priorities \u201cA hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.\u201d -Successories Not long after Aaron and I got married we went into a Successories store they sell motivational messages with stunning pictures attached to the message.\u00a0 Priorities is the one you see above.\u00a0 He bought the large 16X20 framed one with a print of a little girl in front of a sunset for me years ago.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[46,66,53,64,62,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}