{"id":13260,"date":"2017-04-03T11:42:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=13260"},"modified":"2017-04-04T20:54:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T03:54:43","slug":"i-didnt-see-it-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/i-didnt-see-it-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn&#8217;t See it Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0887.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8746\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0887.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0887.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0887-300x103.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0887-500x172.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, something triggered the thought, &#8220;How did we get to this point, a daughter halfway through college, and sons speeding after her?&#8221; I felt disconnected and shocked to see where time had carried us.<span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">We have been present in the kids&#8217; lives; There are 14 years home schooling to look back on. We have been mindful and careful in parenting decisions. We have been there for almost every important milestone. We&#8217;ve been there for the little things, such as family meals and scripture study, tucking in, and prayers. It seems like we\u00a0have earned the right to feel the situation with more sense of reality, but I don&#8217;t. How could anything creep up on us with all this focus on our family?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that&#8217;s just it, we\u00a0have been so focused on the minutes, I haven&#8217;t grasped the years going by. I keep hearing that this is common. It makes me wonder how it will be when my &#8220;youthful&#8221; self is in a shell that looks much older than I am now. Will that reality be just as shocking? Probably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, something triggered the thought, &#8220;How did we get to this point, a daughter halfway through college, and sons speeding after her?&#8221; I felt disconnected and shocked to see where time had carried us.\u00a0 We have been present in the kids&#8217; lives; There are 14 years home schooling to look back on. We have been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/i-didnt-see-it-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Didn&#8217;t See it Coming<\/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":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260","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=13260"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13322,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions\/13322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}