{"id":109,"date":"2024-04-07T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/?p=109"},"modified":"2024-04-14T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T14:08:08","slug":"family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/2024\/04\/07\/family\/","title":{"rendered":"Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.a-to-zchallenge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgEa2q08KqGVk33pfP3clBPjKq8g38JpwLZDRnody_bCt8o_ZC5wL9xddhdvv8FB8v-Pzk5yW34WTe72syX3DP4IUkzDeaDfxh3T7F0hgTWu8qmnriGzG9UDoqbeVwVDbKDVIouari3C7G8cK9DMqQTbNOv31pxILp2Hv1pHF2fEQyvwL2x-4UQpW-wfU8g\/s1080\/f.jpg\" alt=\"#AtoZChallenge 2024 letter F\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I realize the schedule for this challenge is to blog Monday through Saturday, but I am choosing to blog Sunday through Friday instead, and take my rest on the seventh-day Sabbath.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s wonderful when we can all get together, as a family, for family gatherings, especially holidays and birthdays. I&#8217;d certainly like for it to happen oftener than that, but it&#8217;s a challenge. My boy in the Hawaiian shirt lives in Texas, and doesn&#8217;t get over here very often. My oldest son and his wife and son live nearby, but I rarely get to see them, either. I don&#8217;t have a vehicle; and they have a busy schedule.<\/p>\n<p>I count my blessings whenever we are able to get together. I love on my grandson as much as I can at those times. &lt;smooches&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Do your children and grandchildren live nearby? or far away? How do you connect with your grandchildren if they live far away?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I realize the schedule for this challenge is to blog Monday through Saturday, but I am choosing to blog Sunday through Friday instead, and take my rest on the seventh-day Sabbath.) It&#8217;s wonderful when we can all get together, as a family, for family gatherings, especially holidays and birthdays. I&#8217;d certainly like for it to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/grandmumsysmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}