{"id":1831,"date":"2013-01-09T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2013-01-09T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:45:26","slug":"8-things-i-treasure-about-this-past-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2013\/01\/09\/8-things-i-treasure-about-this-past-month\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Things I Treasure About this Past Month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. When Becca arrived 3 weeks ago Tyler looked up at her in surprise and said, “Hey I have a picture of you by my bed”.\n
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    It was fun to see our family members become people and not just pictures to our boys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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    Silliness and all<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  2. Our family doesn’t have to imagine what our life is like, they can picture it.\n

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    They got to see, taste, smell, hear and experience life as we know it<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  3. We are more settled into our new home after one month than we were in our old house after 6 months. \u00a0It is amazing what 2 McMartin men can accomplish in 1 month.\n

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    Yes that is solar heated water being piped to my home...(BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER!!!!)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  4. For one month we were completely comfortable, interacting in a language and culture we naturally understood.\n
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    Nothing like a good old American BBQ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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    And Picnic<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  5. We now know new songs, stories, games and crafts to do with the boys\n

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    My Favorite was the running around and then getting back for a picture before the timer ran out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  6. We took vacation, which is not always easy to do here.\n
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    We did puzzle and games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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    Trips to the beach and everything else a good vacation should have<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  7. We now have so many new memories to treasure\n
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    There are so many things we will always remember<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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    So many memories, we just can't forget<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  8. We were together, which for me was a small taste of eternity.\n
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    We all cried when it was time to say goodbye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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    But we are thankful for the memories we have<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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    And the hope that no matter what we will all be together again.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When Becca arrived 3 weeks ago Tyler looked up at her in surprise and said, “Hey I have a picture of you by my bed”. Our family doesn’t have to imagine what our life is like, they can picture it. We are more settled into our new home after one month than we were in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-updates-and-news","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}