{"id":9965,"date":"2014-10-05T03:19:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T10:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=9965"},"modified":"2014-10-05T19:19:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T02:19:37","slug":"grandmas-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/grandmas-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandma’s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom and I decided to surprise my grandmother in Nevada for her birthday last weekend. Here are a few pictures from the party.<\/p>\n

\"1-IMG_20140928_141616\"<\/a> \"1-IMG_20140928_143029\"<\/a> \"1-IMG_20140928_160737\"<\/a>She allowed us to pamper her for a few days. My grandfather told me over and over how much\u00a0he loved her. She takes good care of him.<\/p>\n

She is quite the decorator. Isn’t her living room lovely?<\/p>\n

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My Aunt Jeanne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Uncle David<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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David, my grandfather, my cousin Elizabeth, and her new husband Ivano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My grandmother asked me to play the violin at her party. My grandfather wouldn’t let me stop. I played and played and he asked for more after the guests left, his face beaming because he loves music.<\/p>\n

Somehow I missed taking a picture of my mom. It’s an all-day\u00a0drive to my grandmother’s house and we talked the whole way there and back again, my voice becoming\u00a0hoarse. My mom and I could probably call driving together “cheap therapy.” Years ago, we got talking so intently that I accidentally drove 30 miles into Wyoming instead of to the cabin where we were headed.<\/p>\n

I learned things about my grandmother on this trip without my children. I saw her marriage, her personality, and her interests in a new way. I’m thankful for the women in my family. I’m thankful for my grandfather, who can’t remember many things, but remembers how much he loves his wife and children.<\/p>\n

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My mom and I decided to surprise my grandmother in Nevada for her birthday last weekend. Here are a few pictures from the party. She allowed us to pamper her for a few days. My grandfather told me over and over how much\u00a0he loved her. She takes good care of him. She is quite the … Continue reading Grandma’s Birthday<\/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":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-family","category-family-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965","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=9965"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9988,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965\/revisions\/9988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}