{"id":2137,"date":"2010-10-04T08:36:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2010-10-15T09:34:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T14:34:30","slug":"making-my-home-a-haven-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/04\/making-my-home-a-haven-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Making My Home a Haven \u2013 Week #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this post, I am participating in <a href=\"http:\/\/womenlivingwell-courtney.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/are-you-distracted-and-distant-or.html\" target=\"_blank\">Making Your Home a Haven<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comehaveapeace.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marriage Mondays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have been looking forward to this challenge!! When I mentioned it to my husband, we both thought how perfect a time it is for this challenge to enter our life, as we are just getting settled into our new house. We&#8217;ve been here for a month this weekend, and we&#8217;re all unpacked and solidifying our schedules and routines. <\/p>\n<p>This week, we are to light an extra large candle and say a prayer for peace in our homes and families every time it catches our eye. I lit mine around 6:30 this morning, so I&#8217;ve already said a few prayers for peace. I have been pretty open on this blog about being a bit of a &#8216;self help junkie&#8217; where I&#8217;m always pushing myself to be better, but it&#8217;s not that I ever think I&#8217;m perfect. So, so, so very far from it. I struggle with daily frustrations and obstacles. Maintaining my patience with my children when they are misbehaving and staying cheerful when my husband is feeling grumpy or stressed out are challenges I face daily. Those are two other things I will pray about when I see my kitchen candle throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>From an example on Courtney&#8217;s blog, I&#8217;m focusing on staying engaged with my family, smart in my time management, content with my life and to keep praying everyday. <3\n\nThese examples are some of the reasons we left the city for the woods!! It's only been a month, but I do feel that the slow down of our lives has helped our family already.\n\nWish me luck with my patience this week!!\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this post, I am participating in Making Your Home a Haven, and Marriage Mondays. I have been looking forward to this challenge!! When I mentioned it to my husband, we both thought how perfect a time it is for this challenge to enter our life, as we are just getting settled into our new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[270,167,99,271],"tags":[280,327,273,272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}