{"id":2637,"date":"2010-07-16T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/photocardblog\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2010-07-16T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:06:20","slug":"om-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/om-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"OM :: The Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/speckles.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"speckles\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/speckles.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/speckles-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Meet Speckles.<br \/>\nA creation from Abe, my 7-year-old.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAbe loves to draw.  It&#8217;s the one thing that can hold his attention just as long as reading.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnd almost as long as TV watching or video game playing.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy moment came when Abe said during breakfast clean-up one morning that he&#8217;d like to be a card designer and have his own business one day.  Awww, really?  Thanks buddy.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOf course, this will be his third career.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFirst, he&#8217;ll become the lighting director for American Idol.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThen, he&#8217;ll try his hand as a full-time inventor for awhile (he&#8217;ll be working on a time machine, among other ideas.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;ll take that moment, fleeting as it was.  Moms know that these moments can be the most memorable.  We just have to pay attention.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<center>:::<\/center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamodestuffblog.com\/2010\/04\/organizing-meet-up-om-one-moment-wanna.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"om [one moment] meet up\" src=\"http:\/\/i748.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx125\/alamodestuff\/OM_alamodemeetupbutton.jpg\" class=\"alignleft height=\"90\" width=\"125\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOM is *one moment* and is a meetup designed to notice &#038; relish a moment in everyday life.  The meetup idea was created by Linda at her blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamodestuffblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">a la mode stuff<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;d like to participate in OM, just click the button and you&#8217;ll be taken to Linda&#8217;s post explaining it all.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/om-frog\/\"><\/div><script>\r\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\r\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1331825;\r\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\r\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Speckles. A creation from Abe, my 7-year-old. Abe loves to draw. 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