{"id":14977,"date":"2018-06-06T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T07:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=14977"},"modified":"2018-06-06T00:43:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T07:43:23","slug":"joyful-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/joyful-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyful Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most of us will never know what it is like to lead the class procession at graduation and give the valedictory speech, but I can say that being Daniel’s mother this evening felt pretty great. I felt distant among all the conversations and congratulations with friends, I think because I was busy finding dedicated places in my heart for all that this evening meant to me. Now, late at night, I am going through pictures, alternately smiling to myself and drying tears.<\/p>\n

Tonight was one of the last nights it will be possible to have all of our children together for a few years. Paige left for New York tonight, accompanied by Richard, and she’ll come back just in time to say goodbye to Daniel before he leaves on his mission.<\/p>\n

On my shelf in the kitchen, I just placed a sign that says “Gather,” but I keep thinking that the more fitting word for us this summer is “Fly.”<\/p>\n

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  Most of us will never know what it is like to lead the class procession at graduation and give the valedictory speech, but I can say that being Daniel’s mother this evening felt pretty great. I felt distant among all the conversations and congratulations with friends, I think because I was busy finding dedicated … Continue reading Joyful Celebration<\/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-14977","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\/14977","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=14977"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14997,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977\/revisions\/14997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}