{"id":265,"date":"2010-02-20T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/art-of-yelling\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:22:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:22:37","slug":"art-of-yelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/art-of-yelling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of YELLING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_EzNMDgf7WQE\/S4BCGMwd6BI\/AAAAAAAAE9Q\/gkv5BCOJtsI\/s1600-h\/2-20-2010%2B010.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440421024134719506\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 173px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2-20-2010-010.jpg?w=628&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m actually really amazed she stood still long enough for me to take this picture!<br \/>Yesterday was definitely a test of my patience. I loaded both girls up in the car to attend a Valentine&#8217;s Day brunch given by the mom&#8217;s ministry at our church. Childcare was provided, thank the Lord, because I really needed a break from Charlie. I love my sweet girl, and she is funny, but man&#8230;yesterday I exercised my lungs more than I thought possible.Yelling. When did I become this person? How do I find myself standing in the living room <em>screaming<\/em> at my toddler? Sometimes I feel like the only way she&#8217;ll listen to me is if I raise my voice and GET. VERY. FIRM. like THIS. She just wasn&#8217;t LISTENING yesterday and I had to tell her things two or three times. Just willfulness, plain and simple. That, coupled with Baby Ella&#8217;s bad case of gas&#8230;well, let&#8217;s just say I was a pretty frazzled mommy.So, how grateful was I to have $5 childcare for my toddler, all the coffee I could drink, great conversation, and a kind and lovely mom of school-age children to hold my baby for me after I had been pacing with her for 20 minutes of unadulterated fussiness?? Pretty grateful. What a blessing our mom&#8217;s ministry is!! I was reminded how precious these relationships are and how invaluable they are to me. I would surely go CRAZY if it weren&#8217;t for the sweet moms in my life. Amen? Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m actually really amazed she stood still long enough for me to take this picture!Yesterday was definitely a test of my patience. I loaded both girls up in the car to attend a Valentine&#8217;s Day brunch given by the mom&#8217;s ministry at our church. Childcare was provided, thank the Lord, because I really needed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2-20-2010-010.jpg?fit=173%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}