{"id":7811,"date":"2014-05-15T05:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T10:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/?p=7811"},"modified":"2014-05-15T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:12:00","slug":"ltym-2014-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/2014\/ltym-2014-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"LTYM 2014: Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I need to be honest before I talk about LTYM 2014: Austin. I was a little jealous about not being able to share my story, Breakdown<\/a>. It reflected a very dark, scary time in my life and I really wanted to share with others because I have not completely healed. I needed to force myself to tell others what I went through and share, openly, how I felt. My husband rarely reads my blog so I was able to publish the story knowing he’d likely never read it and I’d never have to talk to him about my insecurities.<\/p>\n

If I was forced to read aloud in front of 200+ people, I’d have to talk to him. Alas, I was NOT chosen, not even as a semi-finalist, so I needed to pull up my big girl panties and tell others to go see this amazing show. I did just that, and happily. I tweeted. I shared it on Facebook and I even invited a friend new to the blogging world to come with me. I was excited for these women that would get to share their story at LTYM 2014: Austin, even if I was still just a little sad. Oh, and as an added bonus my name was in the program!<\/p>\n

\"ltymaustin\"<\/p>\n

The night of the show I laughed. I cried. I was still a little jealous. I was incredibly relieved, proud of my friends and felt so incredibly guilty.<\/p>\n

I went to the show and I TRULY enjoyed it. When I saw the crowd, I was relieved that I would not be speaking. It looked like a tough crowd.<\/p>\n

I was so proud of my sweet friend, Kim<\/a> for sharing her story of PPD. I cried when I heard about the first wife from another Momma, understood on a certain level when one mom talked about “being crooked”, though I’ve never referred to myself that way; I related.<\/p>\n

I nodded my head in agreement as not ONE<\/a> but TWO<\/a> Moms talked about their breastfeeding journey. Let the record show that I have been breastfeeding my third child for 1,058 days. I’m not prepared to count the total days of all 3 children. No thanks. I’ll remain oblivious that the total reaches over 3000 days.<\/p>\n

I laughed as one woman talked about sperm donors, another talked about how her journey with her mother began on NYE in the 70s and another told a revised story of having great comebacks to an impossibly rude comment. I wish i could mention how each and every story touched me but I think I will save some surprises for you when all the speeches are available on Youtube.<\/p>\n

The show had so much to offer and I can’t imagine having missed a single story. I was pleased with the choices that were made and I felt so guilty for being jealous. I unbelievably impressed with how poised these women were upon that stage. Surely I would haven thrown up my margarita. They did drink to calm themselves, right?<\/p>\n

The beautiful women that were behind the scenes of the show did an amazing job organizing and choosing fantastic speakers. Kristen<\/a>, LeAnn<\/a> and Heather<\/a> worked tirelessly to chose the best show to represent our city and I want to thank them for their hard work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I need to be honest before I talk about LTYM 2014: Austin. I was a little jealous about not being able to share my story, Breakdown. It reflected a very dark, scary time in my life and I really wanted to share with others because I have not completely healed. I needed to force myself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,344,335,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured","7":"category-networking","8":"category-sponsors-reviews","9":"category-wheelchair-stuff","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zEve-21Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}