{"id":11065,"date":"2015-07-19T17:34:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T23:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=11065"},"modified":"2015-07-19T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T04:53:45","slug":"newport-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/newport-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1-DSC_3266\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3382\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3368\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3364\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3351\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3347\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3340\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3338\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3335\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3324\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3314\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3309\"<\/a>\"1-DSC_3296\"<\/a>\"1-DSC_3281\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3276\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_3272\"<\/a>Are you in the mood to look at beach pictures?These triennial beach trips have become important markers for the progress of\u00a0our family. Mark was a newborn and produced his first smile on the first beach trip we made with Richard’s family. Over the years, Paige towered over her brothers in height, until suddenly she didn’t. This is the last family vacation before she leaves home. When we go again, Daniel might be\u00a0on a mission. The early\u00a0beach trips with Mark kept me in the waves, holding him tightly because he loved the rush and pull of the water. This year he spent most of his beach time in the water, not needing my hand, and not caring how far the water carried him down the beach from the group. I watched him with squinty eyes from a distance, his jaunty walk and hop over the waves matching the imprint I have of him in my mind.\u00a0Courage and skill have grown in all of the children. Interest in sand castle building has remained a constant, whether their legs are short or long, and whether they own a cell\u00a0phone or not. I like constants like that. Some years we can find sand crabs. Timothy’s area of interest is always the wildlife. This year the treasure was sand dollars and on the final night, a tiny\u00a0octopus in the tide pools. The boys are lucky to have cousins that match their ages and interests, and these cousins\u00a0gathered for card games, baseball, amusement park rides, and electronics. Richard and his brothers always make me smile when they joke around together, which is\u00a0almost\u00a0all the time, except when they are working on a computer issue or shopping for something online. Then things get very, very serious indeed.<\/p>\n

Walking on sand with a broken toe is a bad, bad idea, so I didn’t do a lot of that. I sat on the deck and looked out over the palm trees, stitched hair on a doll, and thought about Relief Society. On the days that\u00a0I ventured to the beach,\u00a0I spent the whole afternoon there to avoid having to walk back and forth over the sand. I’m normally pretty terrible at doing nothing, but sometimes it’s good to be still.<\/p>\n

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Are you in the mood to look at beach pictures?These triennial beach trips have become important markers for the progress of\u00a0our family. Mark was a newborn and produced his first smile on the first beach trip we made with Richard’s family. Over the years, Paige towered over her brothers in height, until suddenly she didn’t. … Continue reading Newport Beach<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-extended-family","category-family-time","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11087,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11065\/revisions\/11087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}