{"id":514,"date":"2008-09-17T07:56:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T07:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=514"},"modified":"2008-09-17T07:56:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T07:56:19","slug":"its-only-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/09\/17\/its-only-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s only Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but it sure feels like it should be later in the week.&nbsp; Yesterday seemed to take at least 2 days, and I wasn&#8217;t even at the hospital!&nbsp; Thank you all again for the support, encouragement and prayers.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>For an update on Deb, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/chrissdeb\">Deb&#8217;s blog<\/a> where Chris updated last night and this morning already.&nbsp; You can also see pictures she&#8217;s recently posted a couple of blogs down.<\/p>\n<p>Also, since Deb had only recently gotten into Xanga, I thought I might introduce you all to her a little bit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deb is originally from Michigan, and she and my brother met their freshman year of college at Cedarville University.&nbsp; They dated most of college and got married after graduation in 1997, so they just celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary.<\/li>\n<li>Deb&#8217;s birthday is next week, September 25, and she&#8217;ll be 33 years old this year.&nbsp; She&#8217;s a great mom to their two girls, Holly (3) and Kelly (almost-6), and she quit her job as an elementary school teacher to stay home with them.&nbsp; She does work part-time for CU, teaching a basic math class a couple of times a week.&nbsp; Other than that, though, she spends a lot of time taking care of Chris and the girls and helping out with the moms group at their church. <\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s already been a hard year for Deb.&nbsp; Her mom has a kidney disease that required a transplant a few years back, but this year has seen a number of complications arise.&nbsp; Deb&#8217;s been phenomenal, even long-distance, as they dealt with her mom having a stroke earlier this year and then, very unexpectedly, losing her leg because of complications of her diabetes and an aggressive infection.&nbsp; I know that Deb&#8217;s really struggled to know how to help her mom, but she&#8217;s done a great job trying to balance her family&#8217;s needs with her parents&#8217; needs 5 hours away.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Debbie is incredibly crafty and uses watermelons as her kitchen theme.&nbsp; She&#8217;s decorated most of their house herself, doing faux wall finishes and such.&nbsp; And she&#8217;s one of those people who never, ever takes a bad picture, even with no make up or after hours of labor.&nbsp; She&#8217;s got a great sense of humor and loves my brother immensely.&nbsp; She&#8217;s been a fantastic addition to our family for the last (more than) 11 years!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s a very brief introduction.&nbsp; Feel free to leave comments on my brother&#8217;s updates even though he doesn&#8217;t know any of you.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure it will encourage him!<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, this was the passage from the daily devotional email I got today.&nbsp; It just seemed to fit really well, and I hope it encourages you, this morning, too.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica\">The LORD always keeps his promises;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;he is gracious in all he does.<br \/>\nThe LORD helps the fallen<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and lifts those bent beneath their loads. &#8230;<br \/>\nThe LORD is righteous in everything he does;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;he is filled with kindness.<br \/>\nThe LORD is close to all who call on him,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;yes, to all who call on him in truth.<br \/>\nHe grants the desires of those who fear him;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;he hears their cries for help and rescues them.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 145:13&#8211;14, 17&#8211;19<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but it sure feels like it should be later in the week.&nbsp; Yesterday seemed to take at least 2 days, and I wasn&#8217;t even at the hospital!&nbsp; Thank you all again for the support, encouragement and prayers.&nbsp; For an update &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/09\/17\/its-only-wednesday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}