{"id":2121,"date":"2007-11-19T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/19\/benefits-put-to-use\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T05:26:00","slug":"benefits-put-to-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/19\/benefits-put-to-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits Put to Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the thoughtfulness of some of Paul&#8217;s coworkers, he is getting disability for last week and this week &#8212; a welcomed relief since now he is not eating through his precious vacation time as he recovers.  This has made us feel so much better; Paul may not be able to drive or work long hours, but he can catch up on little things&#8230; like pulling the family video off of tapes and burning it onto disc AND drawing up plans on graph paper for the back of the house.  We&#8217;re trying to look at this as an extra bit of time to get really prepared for the renovation (since we are seriously delayed at starting it)&#8230; pricing out doors and windows, deciding on materials.<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s Mom left this morning and we are officially on our own.  We were really lucky to have her here; if Paul had to loose his appendix, we&#8217;re glad it happened the day his Mom was scheduled to arrive.  One more pair of hands offers many moments of respite for me&#8230; they let me sleep in little two mornings and have generous time in the bathroom to do things working Moms only dream of&#8230; like brush my hair and floss.   I&#8217;m the only driver now which brings one more logistical issue to the already overwhelming mess of kids, class, guest speakers, assignments, and grading.  Through on party-planning, holiday prep, house plans, Paul care-taking, and general things like laundry and meals&#8230; wow.  I have absolutely no idea how single parents manage.  Thank goodness I have the Abeona Village helping out with the kids each day.<\/p>\n<p>The assignments I had intended to turn back in tomorrow?  Five are graded out of the two hours I worked on them.  I&#8217;ve got 38 more to go.  I&#8217;d really like to finish them on Wednesday before family arrives.  I have high hopes for down time this holiday weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the thoughtfulness of some of Paul&#8217;s coworkers, he is getting disability for last week and this week &#8212; a welcomed relief since now he is not eating through his precious vacation time as he recovers. This has made us feel so much better; Paul may not be able to drive or work long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}