{"id":209,"date":"2007-10-09T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/MamaOKnits\/2007\/10\/09\/the-down-side-of-soar\/"},"modified":"2007-10-09T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T04:25:00","slug":"the-down-side-of-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/the-down-side-of-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Down Side of SOAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not what you&#8217;re thinking.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having a wonderful time. I&#8217;ve met the nicest (and most interesting) people, who I&#8217;m only rarely able to get on the microphone (folks are SHY!). I&#8217;m learning a ton from Joan&#8211;about both spinning and weaving&#8230;and how to turn a military career into a fiber shop.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>No, the downside is October. Last year we missed Halloween at home, which stunk, but the Grandparents were there (all of them) so really, the kids didn&#8217;t suffer with me gone (would they have anyway? They love their Daddy!).<\/p>\n<p>No, the problem is that in October I have my husband&#8217;s birthday and our anniversary (11 years of marriage this year, 12 of living together and 19 of me being in love with him&#8211;but who&#8217;s counting?).<br \/><span class=\"on down\" style=\"display: block;\" id=\"formatbar_CreateLink\" title=\"Link\" onmouseover=\"ButtonHoverOn(this);\" onmouseout=\"ButtonHoverOff(this);\" onmouseup=\"\" onmousedown=\"CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 10);ButtonMouseDown(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/img\/gl.link.gif\" alt=\"Link\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><br \/>So, this year, Andrew gets a phone call. And that sucks. I don&#8217;t like it at all. But there isn&#8217;t much I can do about it this year. I can make it up to him on our anniversary&#8230;I hope&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So here it is, your birthday clipart:<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/RwxWn8H2OOI\/AAAAAAAAAOo\/_rEjbI57hxM\/s1600-h\/fortune.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/RwxWn8H2OOI\/AAAAAAAAAOo\/_rEjbI57hxM\/s320\/fortune.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119562120567339234\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>And, hey? If you get a chance, can you <a href=\"http:\/\/agathon-sbh.blogspot.com\/\">swing by<\/a> and leave a happy birthday comment to him?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">THURSDAY UPDATE:<\/span><br \/>HA!<br \/>I was able to corral my Dad, Stepmom, Mom, and Sister into surprising Andrew for his birthday. He had NO idea. We had Thing 1 and the babysitter in on it. He sounded SO happy when I phoned the restaurant. At least it was something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not what you&#8217;re thinking. I&#8217;m having a wonderful time. I&#8217;ve met the nicest (and most interesting) people, who I&#8217;m only rarely able to get on the microphone (folks are SHY!). I&#8217;m learning a ton from Joan&#8211;about both spinning and weaving&#8230;and how to turn a military career into a fiber shop. Seriously. No, the downside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-soar","category-spinning","category-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}