{"id":1995,"date":"2012-09-19T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2012-09-19T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T06:55:00","slug":"something-left-to-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=1995","title":{"rendered":"Something left to give"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_1184.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1997\" title=\"DSC_1184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_1184-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_1184-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_1184-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I stayed away for oh so long from my blog. \u00a0Recharging? \u00a0Regrouping? \u00a0Hiding? \u00a0Not sure exactly.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time after we adopted Grace that we were online A LOT. \u00a0Keeping connections alive. \u00a0Those invisible life lines were so necessary. \u00a0And it was draining on me.<\/p>\n<p>Those days were followed by the whirlwind adoption of Samuel. \u00a0More online obsessing.<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly my life felt dry and tired. \u00a0So much of the joy of interacting with friends online, jotting down family anecdotes and my heart that desired so much to do more for the orphan and widow, was just sucked dry.<\/p>\n<p>I was dry.<\/p>\n<p>I needed a fresh new start. \u00a0And so did the blog.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I bought myself a new Bible. \u00a0Rejigged our whole homeschool. \u00a0Dejunked my home base. And decided to freshen up the blog. \u00a0Make it more functional.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all there yet. \u00a0The Bible, the homeschool, the minimizing of the house &#8211; they each deserve their own post. \u00a0The blog is still under construction (my fault not my wonderful designer&#8217;s, who I&#8217;ll introduce very soon), but I felt the need to get on here tonight and get the ball rolling. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got something left to give. \u00a0And here I go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I stayed away for oh so long from my blog. \u00a0Recharging? \u00a0Regrouping? \u00a0Hiding? \u00a0Not sure exactly. There was a time after we adopted Grace that we were online A LOT. \u00a0Keeping connections alive. \u00a0Those invisible life lines were so necessary. \u00a0And it was draining on me. Those days were followed by the whirlwind adoption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,21,11,34,13],"tags":[63,60,64,6,68,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995"}],"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=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}