{"id":16553,"date":"2019-03-12T23:47:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=16553"},"modified":"2019-03-13T06:27:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:27:48","slug":"with-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/with-a-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"With a Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190311_174436203-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16555\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190311_174436203-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190311_174436203-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"443\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190312_143402575-1-1024x443.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16557\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190312_143402575-1-1024x443.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190312_143402575-1-300x130.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190312_143402575-1-768x332.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-11-video-call-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-11-video-call-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-11-video-call-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-11-video-call-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-11-video-call.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think when I look back on this time in my life, I will be thankful that I was present when Tim came home from Frisbee practice, muddy and smiling. I will not regret being home and available to video chat with Daniel for the first time since Christmas. I will smile when I think of the jokes I made with Mark about the DWISBA as I drove him home from school. I will remember the texture of each boy&#8217;s hair in my fingers as I gave haircuts and the smell of starch while ironing shirts. I will smile at the memory of the beautiful home I worked to create. I will remember the souls I loved and the ones who loved me. I will remember that this was a sweet time. Sometimes I feel weary, unwanted, and stagnant, too, but that will not be the melody when I look back at this time with the perspective of age. I can see myself looking back with a smile. These little moments make me smile today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think when I look back on this time in my life, I will be thankful that I was present when Tim came home from Frisbee practice, muddy and smiling. I will not regret being home and available to video chat with Daniel for the first time since Christmas. I will smile when I think &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/with-a-smile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">With a Smile<\/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":[10,13,21,20,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-family-time","category-home","category-life-according-to-angela","category-missionary","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16553","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=16553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16566,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16553\/revisions\/16566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}