{"id":1352,"date":"2011-02-13T23:33:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T07:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2011-02-13T23:33:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T07:33:33","slug":"we-are-getting-so-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"We are getting so close!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One more ring left on the paper chain in our dining room.\u00a0 2 more empty days waiting for <em>Cars <\/em>stickers on our Samuel&#8217;s calendar in Beijing.\u00a0 Everybody&#8217;s doin&#8217; the countdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bags appear to be packed, but I&#8217;m sure some more shuffling is inevitable tomorrow.\u00a0 Last minute errands and a final tutoring session for one of the kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Housesitter has come for her pre-trip visit\u00a0and gone again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Final e-mails are coming in from China.\u00a0 &#8220;Why are you only staying for <em>&#8220;x&#8221;<\/em> number of days?\u00a0 Please come visit my home!&#8221;, they say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lots of questions from the kids.\u00a0 Lots of &#8220;Don&#8217;t forget to pack such and such!&#8221;, from the adults.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Absolutely tickled over<a href=\"http:\/\/newdayfosterhome.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/do-you-love-me.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\"> this post\u00a0<\/a>on the New Day blog tonight.\u00a0 I love the absolute trust and innocence.\u00a0 Oh Lord, Jesus, that all people would be so gentle as that young lady!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Overflowing with thankfulness for our church family&#8217;s support and prayer.\u00a0 Unmerited outpouring of support from the virtual adoption world.\u00a0 A surprise\u00a0gift from a beloved great-grandma, not to mention a box of cookies, devoured by my children (okay, and me!).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/jesus-calling\/id355182562?mt=8\"><em>Jesus Calling<\/em> by Sarah Young<\/a>.\u00a0 How is it that what He spoke to her a few years ago,\u00a0is exactly what I need to hear today?<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">(Oh and btw, it comes in a hard copy too.)<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pondering the question: How did I get to be so blessed to be living this life, in this moment?\u00a0 And oh, am I thankful He picked me!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more ring left on the paper chain in our dining room.\u00a0 2 more empty days waiting for Cars stickers on our Samuel&#8217;s calendar in Beijing.\u00a0 Everybody&#8217;s doin&#8217; the countdown.\u00a0 Bags appear to be packed, but I&#8217;m sure some more shuffling is inevitable tomorrow.\u00a0 Last minute errands and a final tutoring session for one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,40,12,19,29],"tags":[63,41,62,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}