{"id":7135,"date":"2011-05-11T08:50:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=7135"},"modified":"2011-10-01T08:05:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T13:05:56","slug":"readers-recommend-the-gift-i-gave-myself-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/readers-recommend-the-gift-i-gave-myself-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers Recommend: The &#8216;gift I gave myself&#8217; edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What have you read this week that has helped you, inspired you or just given you that giggle you needed to read?<\/p>\n<p>This week, I am embarrassed to admit it,\u00a0 but I remembered why I need to clear the clutter in my kitchen after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeasmom.com\/2011\/05\/3-gifts-to-give-yourself-on-mothers-day.html\" target=\"_blank\">3 Gifts to Give Yourself on Mother&#8217;s Day<\/a> at Life as Mom. The mail, papers, Lego bricks, crayons and other random items had been piling up and, at the same time, I was walking around feeling like a failure in so many other areas so I kept putting off the tidying, thinking I would get to it later.<\/p>\n<p>FishMama&#8217;s post helped me to put two and two together and inspired me to take some action. And now I&#8217;m feeling much better in quite a few ways.This is not a &#8216;how to de-clutter&#8217; post, by the way, so don&#8217;t go there looking for cleaning tips. Look there for life tips.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I can&#8217;t recommend enough that you swing by and check out her post\u00a0 if you are feeling a tad overwhelmed in the job of mom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>What about you? What have you found on the &#8216;net recently that has made an impact on you? There are so many fantastic posts out there and I am hoping this will help me to find even more of them with your help.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To participate, all you need to do is give us a  one-sentence description of why you are recommending a specific post and  then leave a direct link to that post in the comments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>A few guidelines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Readers Recommend<\/strong> posts may not be written by the one who recommends them.<\/li>\n<li>The purpose of the post may not be a sales pitch.<\/li>\n<li>Any affiliate links in the post may not benefit the one who recommended the page.<\/li>\n<li>And the posts must be rated G.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other than that, anything good (and not spammy) goes.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; what favorite post do you have to recommend this week? Please share!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What have you read this week that has helped you, inspired you or just given you that giggle you needed to read? This week, I am embarrassed to admit it,\u00a0 but I remembered why I need to clear the clutter in my kitchen after reading 3 Gifts to Give Yourself on Mother&#8217;s Day at Life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365],"tags":[300],"class_list":["post-7135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-joy","tag-readers-recommend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9287,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}