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I had to post this picture because it’s what I see across the table from me every weekday morning and I love it so much! The girls come downstairs at 6:30, fully dressed but barely awake, plop themselves down in their chairs and open their books, and read silently while they eat their Eggo waffles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKyNb-1VZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":480,"url":"https:\/\/myfaithandjoy.com\/?p=480","url_meta":{"origin":7439,"position":0},"title":"Fall Morning","author":"Emily","date":"October 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We took the girls to a story hour at a local library this morning.\u00a0 After they ignored the reading of a darling children's book and ate the crayons for the craft project, they were rewarded with a romp outside in the leaves.\u00a0 \u00a0 It was so nice to have my\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"IMG_3991","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/pbarch\/PB\/FallMorning_14568\/IMG_3991_thumb.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3428,"url":"https:\/\/myfaithandjoy.com\/?p=3428","url_meta":{"origin":7439,"position":1},"title":"Morning Festivities","author":"Emily","date":"May 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are the girls sporting their new pajamas from Grammie \u2013 all excited for the big day! 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