{"id":2129,"date":"2007-11-30T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/catching-up-2\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T04:58:00","slug":"catching-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/catching-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many things that have happened since our lives turned into an extended episode of Candid Camera was a visit from Nana (Paul&#8217;s Mom). That amazing Mom intuition must have been at work months ago, when she arranged her travel to arrive the morning after Paul&#8217;s appendectomy.<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I-gg1iCBI\/AAAAAAAAC9g\/zbbJ3uYh3rM\/s1600-R\/IMG_6923-1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I-gg1iCBI\/AAAAAAAAC9g\/X2PvhcvbJUY\/s400\/IMG_6923-1.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139238853074356242\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I-hA1iCCI\/AAAAAAAAC9o\/9wcM8SZitZs\/s1600-R\/IMG_6945-1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I-hA1iCCI\/AAAAAAAAC9o\/_N1zGzotkLg\/s400\/IMG_6945-1.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139238861664290850\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Despite the work that greeted her (me with papers to grade and a fellowship to finish; Paul in the hospital &#8212; leaving two kids and a house in need of extra support) we managed to take a few moments outside. Nana also pitched in at school, spending a day with the kids (i.e.: providing us with translation for the cryptic activities Will describes when we ask him what he did at school that day).<br \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I-hQ1iCDI\/AAAAAAAAC9w\/_6GW_1P-eB8\/s1600-R\/IMG_6977-1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I-hQ1iCDI\/AAAAAAAAC9w\/BKPx8OQZigE\/s400\/IMG_6977-1.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139238865959258162\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I9aQ1iB8I\/AAAAAAAAC84\/PkYgQdH7vK0\/s1600-R\/IMG_6979-1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I9aQ1iB8I\/AAAAAAAAC84\/-QD9Ky_RcSw\/s400\/IMG_6979-1.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139237646188545986\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I9ag1iB9I\/AAAAAAAAC9A\/ZVQ9Jd9KrTw\/s1600-R\/IMG_6982-1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I9ag1iB9I\/AAAAAAAAC9A\/0JUMzYDfjfk\/s400\/IMG_6982-1.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139237650483513298\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I9ag1iB-I\/AAAAAAAAC9I\/exfyM2S1z7o\/s1600-R\/IMG_6983-1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I9ag1iB-I\/AAAAAAAAC9I\/OgxRxBP1IWc\/s400\/IMG_6983-1.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139237650483513314\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I9aw1iB_I\/AAAAAAAAC9Q\/3n4fBkXeq00\/s1600-R\/IMG_6988-1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I9aw1iB_I\/AAAAAAAAC9Q\/MLTzOQo8Wk8\/s400\/IMG_6988-1.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139237654778480626\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>It was wonderful to have the visit and we can&#8217;t wait for the next!<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I9bA1iCAI\/AAAAAAAAC9Y\/L5pV_kZQeCU\/s1600-R\/IMG_7104.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_NeoZjZL4Y_c\/R1I9bA1iCAI\/AAAAAAAAC9Y\/ZtuoYdzQ9nQ\/s400\/IMG_7104.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139237659073447938\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many things that have happened since our lives turned into an extended episode of Candid Camera was a visit from Nana (Paul&#8217;s Mom). That amazing Mom intuition must have been at work months ago, when she arranged her travel to arrive the morning after Paul&#8217;s appendectomy.Despite the work that greeted her (me with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129"}],"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=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}