{"id":4667,"date":"2014-01-13T12:25:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T19:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2014-04-17T12:41:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T18:41:05","slug":"smiling-with-christine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/smiling-with-christine\/","title":{"rendered":"Smiling With Christine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-4705.jpg\" alt=\"Copyright \u00a9 2014 Leroy Schulz http:\/\/www.leroyschulz.com\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4668\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-4705.jpg 467w, http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-4705-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Smiling With Christine<\/strong><br \/>\nFeaturing Christine Magee<br \/>\nMom, Wife, Daughter, Friend, Well-Rested Mattress Lady<br \/>\nPresident and Co-Founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepcountry.ca\" title=\"Sleep Country Canada website\" target=\"_blank\">Sleep Country Canada<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 13, 2014<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Christine has this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are some moments that truly define me:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>My birth:<\/strong>  That goes without saying.  If not, who would write this?<br \/>\n<strong>My parents:<\/strong> Who believed in me and gave me the confidence to soar.<br \/>\n<strong>My sister and brother:<\/strong> who said I was adopted just because I was the baby.<br \/>\n<strong>My husband:<\/strong> 29 years of marriage, 9 years of dating and he still can make me laugh, cry, get angry and grateful all within minutes.  If that ain\u2019t passion I don\u2019t know what is!<br \/>\n<strong>My children:<\/strong> Whoever said children were easy was nuts but my life without them would not be worth living. I have never learned so much or loved so much until I was blessed with my two girls.<br \/>\n<strong>My company:<\/strong> Thank you Steve and Gord for inviting me on this journey and thanks to my colleagues &#8212; our team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepcountry.ca\/\" title=\"Sleep Country Canada website\" target=\"_blank\">Sleep Country Canada<\/a> who have made it possible.<br \/>\n<strong>To the future:<\/strong> I can\u2019t wait to see what is next<br \/>\n<strong>To the present:<\/strong> Aahhhhh!  I am here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>Christine is shy, although no one believes that.  She doesn&#8217;t like public speaking except when it&#8217;s over and it went well.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>She secretly wants to be great at something.  Like <em>REALLY<\/em> great.  Like a professional athlete.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>She hates being wrong.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>She wishes she had never seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073195\/\" title=\"Jaws IMDB page\" target=\"_blank\">Jaws<\/a> since now she is perpetually afraid of swimming in deep water.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>She married her high school sweetheart and they are still happily married.  She had her first child at 38 and the second at 41.  About the latter point she says, &#8220;that may not be interesting as much as crazy!&#8221;<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>She traveled to India on a service trip with her 13 year-old daughter in the hopes of enlightening her about how privileged we are in Canada.  Instead, &#8220;I found that she was more accepting than I.  I kept thinking of ways to change what I was seeing and experiencing and Riley &#8212; she was just embracing and enjoying every moment.  So who was the teacher and who was the student?  I have begun to understand how little I know and how much there is out there to explore, learn and experience.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring Christine Magee<br \/>\nMom, Wife, Daughter, Friend, Well-Rested Mattress Lady<br \/>\nPresident and Co-Founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepcountry.ca\" title=\"Sleep Country Canada website\" target=\"_blank\">Sleep Country Canada<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 13, 2014<br \/>\n<strong>Click photo for full post<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,51,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}