{"id":795,"date":"2008-04-14T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/monday-april-14-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:10:00","slug":"monday-april-14-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/monday-april-14-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday April 14, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> <\/font><\/span>It’s history.  Funny how you think and plan and talk about an event for so long and suddenly, it’s over.  Darius and Ro had a beautiful wedding.  Vibrant colors.  Gorgeous music.  And superb food.  <\/font><\/p>\n

And I had an incredible gift from God.  After all the “should I or shouldn’t I” mental debates, I decided to try it.   After a week with some good moments and some really rough moments, I was hoping I was prepared for the worst.  We left at 4 in the morning since that’s the most pain-free part of my day.  And would you believe, I travelled in relative comfort for the first seven hours.  I could not believe it.  All I could say was, “this is God.”  It was just such a gift to be able to be there.  Yesterday, well, that wasn’t so great.  Especially not the last half of it.  But at least we were coming home.   <\/font><\/p>\n

Adam was an incredible traveller both ways.  Every time we go somewhere, I can’t believe how different it is to travel with a four year old as opposed to a baby.  He loves to watch the semis and listens to his Bible story CD’s over and over.  We stayed with John and Karen Hostetler.  I think they re-defined the word hospitality.  From the moment we stepped in the door dripping wet they were so gracious and accomodating.  “Our house is your house while you’re here” they kept saying and it was so obvious they meant it.  And then there were all the special things that went so far beyond what anyone would have to do.  Karen had a child’s size tent just right for Adam to sleep in.  And best of all, they had a little toy airplane, just the same size as the one Dan and Frieda have that he always remembers and won’t put down.  He played and played with it and Karen said it was fine for him to take it along to the wedding.  I was afraid we’d lose it; but I shouldn’t have worried.  He could barely lay it down for the ceremony and begged for it as soon as we were done for the reception.  Family pictures were supposedly at 10:30; but didn’t happen til 10 til 12 and what a lifesaver that airplane was.  <\/font><\/p>\n

That night I got Adam ready for bed and sent him out to tell John and Karen goodnight and to thank them for letting us stay there.  When he went out, Karen gave him a brand new little airplane just the same size as theirs for him to keep.  I told him we’d open it in the car the next morning and he wanted to hold the box in bed.  We got in the car at 10 after 5 the next morning and he squinted around, “Mommy, can I have that airplane now.”  And for the next eight hours he barely put it down long enough to eat.  I didn’t even read one story the entire trip home.  I’d say he likes it!<\/font><\/p>\n

And now, a “few” pictures for those of you who wanted to be there and couldn’t..<\/font><\/p>\n

\"April<\/a> <\/span>\"April<\/a> <\/span>\"April<\/a> <\/span>\"April<\/a> <\/span>\"April<\/a> <\/span>\"April<\/a> <\/span>\"April<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

                                                             \"April<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

                            \"April<\/a> <\/p>\n

<\/span>\"April<\/a> <\/span>\"April<\/a> <\/span>\"April<\/a> <\/span>\"April<\/a> <\/span>\"April<\/a> <\/span>                         \"April<\/a> <\/span>\"April<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 It’s history.  Funny how you think and plan and talk about an event for so long and suddenly, it’s over.  Darius and Ro had a beautiful wedding.  Vibrant colors.  Gorgeous… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39ynQ-cP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}