{"id":5729,"date":"2012-05-08T10:28:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2012-05-08T10:35:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:35:06","slug":"frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2008-12-13-December-cookies-and-dance-089.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5730\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2008-12-13-December-cookies-and-dance-089.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2008-12-13-December-cookies-and-dance-089.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2008-12-13-December-cookies-and-dance-089-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/2008-12-13-December-cookies-and-dance-089-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each of us lives to forge a path through a frontier, a place no one has traveled. I don&#8217;t count myself as unique in my feelings, but it feels a bit lonely in my frontier today. Motherhood has always felt like parting curtain after curtain over vistas I could barely imagine. Paige has been the little pioneer who has borne the task of living the results of my reactions to each new vista.<\/p>\n<p>I realized this week that my vision for my children during the past few years hasn&#8217;t stretched much past the age of 15. We&#8217;ve passed that ridge and now I feel more than a little suspended. I don&#8217;t want Paige to feel as suspended as I do. To whom can I talk? I worked for years to build a community among home educators here, but as the years have passed, Paige and Daniel&#8217;s age group has dwindled.\u00a0 In our church congregation I am one of the oldest mothers. Paige has no one her age who attends church. She never complains. I just keep telling her that Heavenly Father knows where she lives and that it will all work out. My question, through my certain knowledge of God&#8217;s hand in our lives is, &#8220;What do we do now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I feel a little jump of excitement inside for whatever is next. We&#8217;ll figure it out like we always do, remembering that Heavenly Father knows where we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each of us lives to forge a path through a frontier, a place no one has traveled. I don&#8217;t count myself as unique in my feelings, but it feels a bit lonely in my frontier today. Motherhood has always felt like parting curtain after curtain over vistas I could barely imagine. Paige has been the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/frontier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frontier<\/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-5729","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\/5729","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=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5735,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}