{"id":1765,"date":"2014-01-13T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T23:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2014-03-14T14:03:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T21:03:22","slug":"a-year-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post1765","title":{"rendered":"“A Year of Love”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something I wrote recently about my New Year’s resolution for 2014 was published over at Home & School Mosaics Blog today<\/a>. Here’s some of it:<\/p>\n

\u201cHow would you feel if Evelyn felt the same way about herself as you do about yourself?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

I had an interesting conversation with my husband the other night, in which he posed that question to me. For those of you who know me relatively well, I don\u2019t try to hide the fact that I\u2019ve struggled with depression and anxiety for long periods of time.<\/p>\n

One of the big side effects of my issue is that I put myself down. A lot. So often that I don\u2019t have to TRY to slip in something negative about myself. It comes naturally to me to beat myself up mentally. It\u2019s almost as if I am afraid my pride will get out of control if I don\u2019t give myself a daily deluge of mental criticism and put myself in my place.<\/p>\n

The night that this conversation took place, my husband, our 18-month-old daughter Evelyn, and I were hanging up Christmas ornaments on the tree. The majority of our ornaments are special to us \u2013 dated ornaments from each year we\u2019ve been married, or gifts we\u2019ve been given through the years, etc. A favorite is from when we went to Disneyland on our honeymoon. (YES, that is absolutely what I wanted, and my sweet hubby delivered, even though we were still poor college students!) While there, we got a picture of our faces pressed together with big smiles etched into a flat glass cutout of Mickey Mouse\u2019s head.\"Family2013\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more, please continue reading HERE<\/a>!<\/p>\n

What are some of your new year’s resolutions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something I wrote recently about my New Year’s resolution for 2014 was published over at Home & School Mosaics Blog today. Here’s some of it: \u201cHow would you feel if Evelyn felt the same way about herself as you do about yourself?\u201d I had an interesting conversation with my husband the other night, in which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22,9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-evelyn","category-family","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}