{"id":18716,"date":"2013-11-09T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=18716"},"modified":"2013-11-08T12:52:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T17:52:45","slug":"30-days-of-gratitude-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/30-days-of-gratitude-day-9\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Days of Gratitude: Day 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>SugarBabe Maria shares her gratitude for a favorite treat.<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18717\" title=\"Ray &amp; Maria: Fall Faves 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lbw-SBasic-WeGiveThanksFor-lo-700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lbw-SBasic-WeGiveThanksFor-lo-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lbw-SBasic-WeGiveThanksFor-lo-700-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lbw-SBasic-WeGiveThanksFor-lo-700-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lbw-SBasic-WeGiveThanksFor-lo-700-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lbw-SBasic-WeGiveThanksFor-lo-700-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I started 2013 with the desire to be more present and celebrate the little things. A lot of my scrapbooking reflects this, and I&#8217;ve grown more reflective and grateful as a result.<\/p>\n<p>I always laugh about the disproportionately large number of donut layouts I scrap, but it&#8217;s true . . . I&#8217;m grateful for donuts.<\/p>\n<p>My boyfriend and I pick ours up from an area donut shop with unpredictable hours and hyperbolic signs on the door reading, &#8220;Be back in 5 minutes.&#8221; Even when we do manage to make it through the front doors, we consider ourselves lucky if there are more than a couple flavors still left in the cases. But despite our grumblings, I think it makes the donut victory that much sweeter when we do manage to grab an orange creme (my favorite) or a maple bacon (Ray&#8217;s).<\/p>\n<p>While I would gladly gorge myself on donuts on the regular, I realize, like with anything else in life, a more balanced approach is advisable. I know that without bad things there couldn&#8217;t be good things&#8211;If an orange creme donut was delivered to me every morning would I still think it was special? Or, if our favorite donuts were produced in unlimited quantities, would they be any different than their less flavorful, mass produced brothers and sisters?<\/p>\n<p>So yes, I&#8217;m grateful for donuts, and I can&#8217;t help but think how lucky I am everytime I eat one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SugarBabe Maria shares her gratitude for a favorite treat. I started 2013 with the desire to be more present and celebrate the little things. A lot of my scrapbooking reflects this, and I&#8217;ve grown more reflective and grateful as a result. I always laugh about the disproportionately large number of donut layouts I scrap, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":18717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18722,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions\/18722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}