{"id":927,"date":"2009-04-17T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2009-04-16T11:18:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T18:18:28","slug":"the-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"The Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"

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??This morning Tori was on the couch while I made breakfast.?? I could see by her wide eyes that she was watching me to see if I would “catch her” up to no good.?? Those eyes are always a dead give away to trouble.?? She had the remote.?? When I asked her to hand it over she puckered, cried, and slowly extended it to me.?? I took her in my arms and said “Mommy is so proud of you!?? When you obey when you don’t want to it counts twice.?? You didn’t want to give that to me but you did it anyway – good job baby girl!”.?? In that moment – I felt it – God winked at me (hee hee).??<\/p>\n

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??I love her happy smile.?? Life is good.<\/p>\n

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Lately I have been thinking a lot about different ways to accomodate and work with Ty.?? He is capable of so much…but still…there are struggles.?? I have received a few encouraging notes from Dad lately with his own fatherly tips on how to approach things – I love those.?? He knows I have been quite stressed on this subject – even dreaming about it.?? Last night watching American Idol, I listened to the words of the Miley Cyrus’s song “The Climb”.?? As a side note, I am not a Miley fan.?? David told me I would be if I had a girl.?? Now I have one.?? Still not.?? Anyhow, I can’t say I cared for the performance but I did appreciate the words and couldn’t help but thing of my sweet boy.<\/p>\n

The chorus says:<\/p>\n

There is always going to be another mountain
\nI am always going to want to make it move
\nAlways going to be an uphill battle
\nSometimes I am going to have to lose
\nAint’ about how fast I get there
\nAin’t about what is waiting on the other side
\nIt’s the climb<\/p>\n

I appreciate those lyrics on many levels.?? Where Ty is concerned, the line that jumps out at me is that it doesn’t matter how fast one gets there.?? Ty doesn’t do anything on anyones schedule.?? It makes no difference though.?? In Ty time – it comes.?? Uphill battles have a big place in building character.?? Ty lives on the side of that hill and he doesn’t even realize it.???? I pray that Jim and I are able to teach him to appreciate the climb.?? I hope I learn to appreciate my own climb.?? He still can’t climb to the top of the bunkbed but as he said to me the other day “can you help me up there mommy??? Maybe when I am seven I can do it”.?? :)?? His character is already better than mine.?? He doesn’t demand that the mountain be moved.?? He is content to wait it out and goes about his happy business in the meantime with a spirit of joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

??This morning Tori was on the couch while I made breakfast.?? I could see by her wide eyes that she was watching me to see if I would “catch her” up to no good.?? Those eyes are always a dead give away to trouble.?? She had the remote.?? When I asked her to hand it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}