{"id":9868,"date":"2014-09-15T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=9868"},"modified":"2014-11-08T19:53:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T02:53:17","slug":"a-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/a-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where have you been during my absence online? I hope you’ve seen something beautiful or read something good or eaten a delicious meal without having to do the dishes afterwards.<\/p>\n

We have been inside the house, at parks, in our schools, church, and work. It’s a full life. Richard works very long hours and on Saturdays. It\u00a0is stressful for him. I\u00a0am used to having him gone on weekdays, but\u00a0those desolate Saturdays without him are just no fun.<\/p>\n

The tepee is finished and looks so fun in Mark’s room.<\/p>\n

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Mark continues to pass through the gate behind our house to his friend’s house to play each day. There are kittens! There is a puppy! Our house lacks these things, but we do have\u00a0Legos to make up for it, and I have been told that our\u00a0food is good and I’ve been enlisted to sew a couple of projects for the little boy.<\/p>\n

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Paige completed the first two applications for awards and scholarships that she will submit this semester. What a task that is! Here is a collage of some of her art.<\/p>\n

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Paige spoke in Stake Conference on Sunday. We are so proud of her. She was calm, confident, and her talk about the Book of Mormon was beautiful. I wish you could have been there. Someone took this picture from another building where her message was being viewed on a screen.<\/p>\n

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Timothy made some great plays as catcher and first baseman last week and he tells me that he’s not ready to play the trombone for me yet.<\/p>\n

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Mark is good at hitting baseballs in his red helmet.<\/p>\n

Daniel travels in a pack of friends that I really like. There are movie nights and Frisbee games at the park, game nights in our basement, and lunchtime ball games at school. Hooray for good friends!<\/p>\n

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The new violin had two\u00a0debut performances this weekend at Stake Conference. I have been given\u00a0so much praise. At first it made me feel shiny to get all of the\u00a0attention. Now I feel a little dulled by it. I can’t explain it. Perhaps\u00a0it’s just too much for me to take in. I do like hearing that people were touched by the music and that some people have translated the music to an expression of my testimony.\u00a0Because it is.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>The weekend of music and speaking at Stake Conference made me feel like we’re accepted here. It’s not easy to integrate into a new place with people who have lived here a long time. The kindness of our neighbors\u00a0has always made the transition softer, but to be invited to share thoughts and music makes\u00a0me feel like people accept\u00a0our version of contribution.<\/p>\n

Richard made lemon ice cream to celebrate everything. All is well.<\/p>\n

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Where have you been during my absence online? I hope you’ve seen something beautiful or read something good or eaten a delicious meal without having to do the dishes afterwards. We have been inside the house, at parks, in our schools, church, and work. It’s a full life. Richard works very long hours and on … Continue reading A Summary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-art","category-family-time","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","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=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10155,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions\/10155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}