{"id":322,"date":"2012-05-25T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fitsteph.com\/2012\/05\/52412-so-life-has-been-kind-of-tough-on.html\/"},"modified":"2012-05-25T02:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T02:47:00","slug":"52412-so-life-has-been-kind-of-tough-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fitsteph.com\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nSo life has been kind of tough on me lately. You’ve seen my posts. Pregnancy emotions running wild. Financial struggles, husband working a lot, etc. You’ve read the sob stories. Ha. Well, thankfully I am breathing again and my emotions are a little bit better. This has been a good week and God is pouring blessings down. Obviously He is good all the time and whether I’m getting “blessed” or “not” doesn’t change His goodness. Also, I know that my view of blessings can be different, at times, than God’s view and I sometimes don’t see them until later. <\/div>\n
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\nALRIGHT ALRIGHT…..blessings!! Here’s my little list of things for the past couple days!!<\/div>\n
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\n1. Making these AWESOME headbands and hair clips. I love MOPS. It has been a blessing to me this year. I have been wanting to learn how to make these and now I know!<\/div>\n
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\n2. A neighbor of ours had a mattress and box spring in her garage. Well, we needed a box spring for a queen mattress someone graciously gave us last year. It’s been sitting on our full size box spring. Yikes! So they sold it to us for $30.00!! It pays to be nosy and ask sometimes. Hehe. Anyways, our bed frame didn’t extend to a queen size like I thought it would. So I decided to ask again, and see if they had a bed frame. Well, they did and it had a headboard and the shebang……<\/div>\n

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\nLeather……and we are talking FREE. Yes, they gave it to us for free. Can you believe it?! Here it is without pillows on it. It’s amazing. I am so grateful. <\/div>\n
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\n3. A dear friend of mine, who lives in another state, wrote me and said she wanted to get that chandelier I need (want) for Abby’s new room. Bam. Wow. What generosity from friends! I am overwhelmed. So this is one she had picked out to buy for me….and it’s lovely. Matches perfectly. <\/div>\n

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\n4. I am also thankful for all the amazing deals I’ve found at garage sales. Here’s another item I have made-over for Abigail’s room. I like it! I am currently working on her night stand and will post pics later. <\/div>\n
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\n5. Oh yes, another blessing is another friend who is going to watch Abigail a whole day for me next week. She volunteered and it is very nice. <\/div>\n
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\n6. Going to dinner last weekend and a movie with my in-laws. It was fun to go out with them and have parents that treat these fun outings \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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\n7. Having wonderful friends and neighbors to hang out with on hot days with kids running around.<\/p>\n

8. Having an amazing doctor to go to this pregnancy. The place I went last time was good but this blows me away every time. I have never had such efficiency at a doctor’s office as this place.  My average time at appointments is about 20 minutes in and out…yup. Start to finish! The doctor is wonderful and I couldn’t be happier. Also, my ultrasound is scheduled!!! 3 weeks and we’ll find out the gender!!<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nThere are many more blessings I know I am forgetting but these at least give you a taste of my life…just in the last week or so! <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5\/24\/12 So life has been kind of tough on me lately. You’ve seen my posts. Pregnancy emotions running wild. Financial struggles, husband working a lot, etc. You’ve read the sob stories. Ha. Well, thankfully I am breathing again and my emotions are a little bit better. This has been a good week and God is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitsteph.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitsteph.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitsteph.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitsteph.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitsteph.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fitsteph.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitsteph.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitsteph.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitsteph.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitsteph.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}