{"id":26398,"date":"2023-09-05T00:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T06:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=26398"},"modified":"2024-04-10T23:47:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T05:47:05","slug":"update-on-our-grown-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/update-on-our-grown-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on our grown children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1998008073889766.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"461\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1998008073889766-461x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1998008073889766-461x1024.jpeg 461w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1998008073889766-135x300.jpeg 135w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1998008073889766-691x1536.jpeg 691w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1998008073889766.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Child is a word that applies to any age when a person is linked to a parent. Even though they are independent and strong, I am glad that I am still allowed to think of Paige, Daniel, and Timothy as my children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I haven&#8217;t written about our older kids in a long time because they are living their own lives, very independent from us. But in my journal of tender mercies, any day that I get to talk to one of them, it makes the list of blessings for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paige and I have a phone appointment each Wednesday morning. It is something I look forward to each week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paige and Mike bought a house in Alabama this spring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot_20230409-1944142.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot_20230409-1944142-1024x516.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot_20230409-1944142-1024x516.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot_20230409-1944142-300x151.png 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot_20230409-1944142-768x387.png 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot_20230409-1944142.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They both work from home. Michael is an accountant, and Paige works as an illustrator, and she has done a lot of digital art for the online Investopedia magazine. She mostly illustrates financial concepts, but she has also done some medical illustrations and more. This summer, her work was featured in a printed version of Investopedia magazine. She also did an illustration for the January 2023 Friend magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paige and Michael serve in the Primary organization at church. We will visit them later this fall, and it will be our first trip to Alabama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PXL_20230529_235659684.MP_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PXL_20230529_235659684.MP_-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PXL_20230529_235659684.MP_-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PXL_20230529_235659684.MP_-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PXL_20230529_235659684.MP_-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PXL_20230529_235659684.MP_-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PXL_20230529_235659684.MP_-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daniel lives nearby, and he begins his senior year at BYU this week, studying electrical engineering. He did an internship at L3 Harris (Richard&#8217;s company) this summer, so Richard talked to him quite a bit during the past several months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PXL_20230617_174040877.MP_-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PXL_20230617_174040877.MP_-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PXL_20230617_174040877.MP_-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PXL_20230617_174040877.MP_-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PXL_20230617_174040877.MP_-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PXL_20230617_174040877.MP_-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PXL_20230617_174040877.MP_-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After graduation next spring, Daniel will pursue a masters degree, and L3 Harris has offered him a job. Daniel and McKenna are quick to serve wherever they are needed. Daniel plays the organ in sacrament meeting and piano for choir, plus he serves in the elders quorum as service coordinator. McKenna served as assistant girls camp director this summer. Both of them help their local grandparents with all their hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230902_142249-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230902_142249-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230902_142249-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230902_142249-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230902_142249-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230902_142249-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230902_142249-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Timothy, our missionary, is on a new island, Saipan, a Northern Mariana island. This is country #4 where he has served during his mission, so I bought a new flag to display in the yard. He is excited to be on Saipan, and he and his companion are very busy teaching people. He is happy, as you can see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He alternates with other missionaries to fly to a small island called Tinian on weekends to support a tiny group of members for church services. Here is a picture of their sacrament meeting last Sunday on Tinian.  Oh, my! \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1311375176167579.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1311375176167579-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26403\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1311375176167579-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1311375176167579-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1311375176167579-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1311375176167579-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/received_1311375176167579.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have a video call with Elder Ross each Sunday in the late afternoon, which is Monday morning for him. I have a hug scheduled with him on November 1 when he arrives home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230904_080929-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230904_080929-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26426\" style=\"width:338px;height:254px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230904_080929-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230904_080929-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230904_080929-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230904_080929-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230904_080929-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child is a word that applies to any age when a person is linked to a parent. Even though they are independent and strong, I am glad that I am still allowed to think of Paige, Daniel, and Timothy as my children. I haven&#8217;t written about our older kids in a long time because they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/update-on-our-grown-children\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on our grown children<\/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":[10,30,8,13,39,20,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-byu","category-church","category-family-time","category-joy","category-life-according-to-angela","category-missionary","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398","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=26398"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27461,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398\/revisions\/27461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}