{"id":33,"date":"2007-05-27T15:39:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T22:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=33"},"modified":"2007-05-27T15:39:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T22:39:35","slug":"fun-times-with-papa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/fun-times-with-papa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Times with Papa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/100_4951.jpg\" title=\"Dad and J as a walrus\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/100_4954.jpg\" title=\"Bunny Ears\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/100_4950.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"Dad and J goofing around\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/100_4950.jpg?w=840&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dad and J goofing around\" title=\"Dad and J goofing around\" \/><\/a>We had breakfast with my parents yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jon was still wokring at the conference.\u00c2\u00a0 It was his last day, and to be quite honest with you &#8211; I was on my last nerve.\u00c2\u00a0 The kids had started bickering quite a bit on Thursday, and had moved into full blown fighting on Friday, and well&#8230;..I didn&#8217;t really have much hope that Saturday would be fabulous.\u00c2\u00a0 Jon had taken Xandra with him to be the &#8220;Soundman&#8217;s Helper&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/100_4951.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"Dad and J as a walrus\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/100_4951.jpg?w=840&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dad and J as a walrus\" title=\"Dad and J as a walrus\" \/><\/a>I remember going to &#8220;help&#8221; my dad play golf.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m really sure that he didn&#8217;t need the &#8220;help&#8221; from me, but those are some of the best memories I have&#8230;..getting up really, really early, and going with dad for the super long drive up to Squamish or wherever else they&#8217;d go, and walking around the course.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember washing the balls a million times, and getting to stop after the first nine holes so we could get a snack, and\u00c2\u00a0attempting to drag the golf bag around, and being super quick with a new tee when they&#8217;d wreck the one they had been using, or even getting a new ball from the bag when they wacked it\u00c2\u00a0too far in to the trees or into the pond.<\/p>\n<p>Any way, so Jon took Xan, and at least that meant that I only had to referee between two, and not three.\u00c2\u00a0 As it turns out, it was the wrong two.\u00c2\u00a0 For some reason, Gelica and Jeremy fight&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..and fight, and fight , and fight&#8230;&#8230;.it never seems to end.\u00c2\u00a0 The Friday night, Jon had taken Geli to help out, and Xan and J got along so perfectly.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s just Xan&#8230;..she seems to be able to get along with anyone.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well!\u00c2\u00a0 So, I got a hold of my parents, and they hadn&#8217;t left to go in to see Chris, yet.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We met up at the Ricky&#8217;s in Walnut Grove, and had a really nice breakfast.\u00c2\u00a0 This is my favorite picture of J and Dad.\u00c2\u00a0 Dad looks so happy, and relaxed.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice to see him like this.\u00c2\u00a0 He carries quite a bit of the stress of everything that&#8217;s going on right now.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice to get those little moments when you can forget about &#8220;things&#8221; for just a second and just &#8220;be in the moment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/100_4954.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"Bunny Ears\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/100_4954.jpg?w=840&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bunny Ears\" title=\"Bunny Ears\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had breakfast with my parents yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 Jon was still wokring at the conference.\u00c2\u00a0 It was his last day, and to be quite honest with you &#8211; I was on my last nerve.\u00c2\u00a0 The kids had started bickering quite a bit on Thursday, and had moved into full blown fighting on Friday, and well&#8230;..I didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/fun-times-with-papa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fun Times with Papa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-jeremy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}