{"id":8753,"date":"2011-08-11T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T16:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=8753"},"modified":"2011-08-10T13:32:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T18:32:47","slug":"my-number-one-cant-do-without-it-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/my-number-one-cant-do-without-it-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"My number one, can&#8217;t-do-without-it routine&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s539.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff360\/Momstoolbox\/?action=view&amp;current=bb9fcb75.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bb9fcb75.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Hotel Bible Reading\" width=\"274\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me with my number one routine... even in a hotel on vacation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>10 years ago I became a mom and I am still trying to get the hang of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems that once I begin to understand one stage, it is time to move onto the next and I have to start learning again from scratch. And every time I try to come up with a new chore chart, behavior system or even a simple routine to-do list, something changes. It\u2019s enough to make a girl who craves routine (like me) want to lose it sometimes!<\/p>\n<p>There has been one routine I put in place years ago that has stuck&#8230; and that one has helped me to make it through the craziness of being a mom of three young kids (plus a couple of foreign exchange students through the years.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Wanna know more? Click on over to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommynelson.com\/?p=836\" target=\"_blank\"> Raising Faithful Kids<\/a> on TommyNelson.com and I&#8217;ll tell you all about it&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 years ago I became a mom and I am still trying to get the hang of it. It seems that once I begin to understand one stage, it is time to move onto the next and I have to start learning again from scratch. And every time I try to come up with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[351,348],"class_list":["post-8753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moms-journal","tag-routines","tag-tommy-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753","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=8753"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8758,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions\/8758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}