{"id":19932,"date":"2021-04-19T10:17:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=19932"},"modified":"2021-04-19T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:43:44","slug":"things-we-do-when-we-anticipate-a-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/things-we-do-when-we-anticipate-a-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Things we do when we anticipate a goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/319202193826.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/319202193826.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19934\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/319202193826.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/319202193826-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/319202110048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/319202110048.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19936\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/319202110048.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/319202110048-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/31920219390.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/31920219390.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19935\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/31920219390.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/31920219390-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/31920219390-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tim spoke in church and it was the longest I have heard his voice in years. He keeps it all to himself, the humor, the insights, the excellence. Some people just don&#8217;t show a need for approval, and he is the most independent person I have ever known. In only one class has he asked for help. Even when we were homeschooling, he would take his work to his room and do it alone. I came home from church and took a personal video of the recording of church services so I can hear his voice and his testimony whenever I need it, and I hugged him up and told him how proud I am of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard went on a trip to Moab with friends over the weekend, and our dog, traumatized by the separation, found a place in his suitcase as he unpacked on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all self-soothe in some way about anticipated separations. I make a recording and the dog tries to stow away.  I have found 3 gray hairs during my life so far. All have happened around the time of high school graduations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim spoke in church and it was the longest I have heard his voice in years. He keeps it all to himself, the humor, the insights, the excellence. Some people just don&#8217;t show a need for approval, and he is the most independent person I have ever known. In only one class has he asked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/things-we-do-when-we-anticipate-a-goodbye\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things we do when we anticipate a goodbye<\/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":[10,8,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-church","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19932","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=19932"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19944,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19932\/revisions\/19944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}