{"id":5557,"date":"2010-04-17T23:11:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T06:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:23:52","slug":"sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/04\/17\/sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days I look at my child and am astounded that she has made another leap toward growing up. Today was such a day. She rarely permits me to &#8220;do&#8221; her hair, but today I insisted on trying pigtails, which she loved. But oh! She looked so much older with them, and her thoughts and speech are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Her imagination soars. I sit and watch her. I hang out with her and play. I soak in each moment that I&#8217;m capable of bringing my full attention to; it&#8217;s all going so fast, and once it&#8217;s gone, it&#8217;s just&#8230; gone. She was once a wee babe that I cherished, but that&#8217;s ancient history; yet I&#8217;m not sad because I paid attention to what she was then. I didn&#8217;t focus on a future time when she&#8217;d be walking, or telling stories, because I knew that would come and didn&#8217;t want to miss what was right in front of me. I&#8217;m so lucky to have this bit of wisdom by which to live (thanks to my mother and my friend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karenmaezenmiller.com\/\">Karen<\/a>), and I&#8217;m so lucky to be Bean&#8217;s mom.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4530443924\/\" title=\"having fun by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4010\/4530443924_b89277e048.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"having fun\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days I look at my child and am astounded that she has made another leap toward growing up. Today was such a day. She rarely permits me to &#8220;do&#8221; her hair, but today I insisted on trying pigtails, which she loved. But oh! She looked so much older with them, and her thoughts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,214,217,34,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-domestic-arts","category-meditation","category-motherhood","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13593,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions\/13593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}