{"id":62336,"date":"2014-12-29T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/?p=62336"},"modified":"2018-05-25T16:20:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T20:20:41","slug":"times-to-make-a-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/times-to-make-a-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Times to Make a Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>img#mv-trellis-img-1::before{padding-top:150%; }img#mv-trellis-img-1{display:block;}<\/style><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of UPS. All opinions are 100% mine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">As a kid, I can remember making wishes on anything I could find. I relished the opportunity to make a wish &ndash; whether it was on my birthday or as we passed a fountain. Now, as an adult, I don&rsquo;t often look for those opportunities anymore, but there are still times I&nbsp;<em>wish<\/em>&nbsp;that my wishes could be granted. Here are 5 traditional&nbsp;<strong>times to make a wish.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish.jpg\" alt=\"5 Times to Make a Wish\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish-500x750.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish-650x975.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 40px), 728px\"><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62338 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20800%201200'%3E%3Crect%20width='800'%20height='1200'%20style='fill:%23e3e3e3'\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"5 Times to Make a Wish\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" title=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 40px), 728px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish.jpg\" id=\"mv-trellis-img-1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish-500x750.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/times-wish-650x975.jpg 650w\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Wish on a Star &ndash;&nbsp;<\/strong>The tradition goes you can wish on the first star in the sky at night and also make a wish on any shooting stars you see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Add a coin to a Wishing Well &ndash;&nbsp;<\/strong>Toss in a penny or another coin into a fountain, well, or even a pond and secretly share your wish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Birthday Candle Wishes &ndash;&nbsp;<\/strong>Once a year, make the best use of your Birthday candles! Make a wish and then try your best to blow out all of your candles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Wishbones &ndash;&nbsp;<\/strong>Two lucky people can grab a hold of one end of a Wishbone, like from a cooked turkey or other fowl. Make your wish then tug and pull until the bone breaks, hoping to end with the larger piece of the wishbone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Dandelions &ndash;<\/strong>&nbsp;When dandelions have turned to wispy seeded puffs, make a wish and then blow as hard as you can trying to blow off all the seeds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">It&rsquo;s been fun to share the different times to make a wish with my boys as they have grown. But with the fun, has also come some real and hard moments. Just a few weeks ago, my 6 year old told me his holiday wish, and it brought me to tears because I know it&rsquo;s not something I have any power to grant for him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">My son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes about 6 weeks ago. It&rsquo;s been a huge learning curve and change for our family as he needs daily insulin shots and blood sugar level checks to keep him healthy. So when my son told me, &ldquo;I wish my diabetes would go away&rdquo; I stopped in my tracks. Forget the wish of toys or games that a 6 year old boy should be wishing for. His wish was real and heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">It&rsquo;s my wish, too, despite how impossible it is.&nbsp;<strong>I wish for a cure for diabetes.<\/strong>&nbsp;While there may not be a cure available today, I have hope that with all the research underway, advancements will become available during his lifetime that will help improve his body&rsquo;s ability to make insulin again on it&rsquo;s own. It&rsquo;s not a wish that will be granted anytime soon, but I still hold out hope for a wish come true. In the meantime, our family will do what we can to keep him well and support diabetes research in whatever way we are able to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of UPS. All opinions are 100% mine. As a kid, I can remember making wishes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","disable-in-feed":false,"article-schema-type":"","disable-critical-css":false},"categories":[2987,11],"tags":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amomstake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}