{"id":85,"date":"2024-04-01T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/?p=85"},"modified":"2024-04-01T15:34:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:34:47","slug":"april-blogging-from-a-to-z-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/2024\/04\/01\/april-blogging-from-a-to-z-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"April Blogging from A to Z Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-86\" src=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2024\/04\/IMG_4260-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2024\/04\/IMG_4260-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2024\/04\/IMG_4260-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2024\/04\/IMG_4260-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2024\/04\/IMG_4260-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2024\/04\/IMG_4260-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2024\/04\/IMG_4260-850x567.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I decided to give this blog a bit of a jumpstart by participating in a blogging challenge. I plan to share parenting\/grandparenting tips, musings, perhaps even some homeschooling tips, throughout the month. I hope you&#8217;ll follow along!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.a-to-zchallenge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiPgTVuKDjtEvLTdXBI5yOZ-T0XdzvK-jGpfuZQQh4tkyIk8TyWmKBsmwXpDkxWx6PrlffkRQQx6THBFYk53eLI3_GFwo2mqBCNaatlgkWlAum6YlpwuP4oSzC_pbSeli3fHTDSeoyUN-SvBQrxIJehmfMixmwM1NaxiHSJUAXBWFQ2zkQ-sVJgJXbr5f_E\/s320\/a.jpg\" alt=\"#AtoZChallenge 2024 badge A\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Off the top of my head, all I could come up with for the letter &#8220;A&#8221; is <em>azalea<\/em>. How does that fit in with my aforementioned topics? I really have no idea! Ha!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we could look at it this way: <strong>Slow down<\/strong>. Take time to enjoy the simple things, like flowers in the spring, the songs of the birds, the blue of the sky, the clouds sailing by. Spend time with your children. Read to them. Cuddle with them. Take their hands as you take your nature walk. Relish their laughter and their smiles. Cherish each hug.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of book suggestions:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89\" src=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2024\/04\/pg20404.cover_.medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/20404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Round the Year by Caris Brooke and E. Nesbit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88\" src=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2024\/04\/pg17782.cover_.medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/17782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Animal Children: The Friends of the Forest and the Plain by Edith Brown Kirkwood<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87\" src=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2024\/04\/pg15809.cover_.medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"129\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/15809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Apple Pie by Kate Greenaway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find all the above books on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Gutenburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll come back again tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to give this blog a bit of a jumpstart by participating in a blogging challenge. I plan to share parenting\/grandparenting tips, musings, perhaps even some homeschooling tips, throughout the month. I hope you&#8217;ll follow along! Off the top of my head, all I could come up with for the letter &#8220;A&#8221; is azalea&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}