{"id":692,"date":"2009-09-24T18:25:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T00:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2009-09-24T18:27:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T00:27:58","slug":"to-dad-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"To Dad-in-law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have said it before and I will say it again: I am amazingly lucky in my in-laws. I married into an awesome family. This includes a really nice, very thoughtful father-in-law who is always planning and executing events for the family.<\/p>\n<p>And to this very nice father-in-law I have lied about four times over the summer. He has continually asked for pictures of the children, and my reply has repeatedly been, &#8220;I&#8217;ll post those tonight!&#8221; but then I would never deliver on my promise. So to Dad-in-law, first a public apology for not being reliable and then the promised photos&#8230; finally.<\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_v\">We visited my grandmother in Tennessee in May.<br \/>\nWe tried to wrangle the great-grandkids together<br \/>\nfor a photo with Great Grandma. I&#8217;ll let you decide<br \/>\nwhether we were successful or not.<br \/>\n16 May 2009<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2009\/09\/GG_16May2009_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2009\/09\/GG_16May2009_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2009\/09\/GG_16May2009_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\">This is me and my siblings<br \/>\nwith the paternal side of our family.<br \/>\n16 May 2009<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2009\/09\/GG_16May2009_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\">The next day, while we were still all together in Nashville,<br \/>\nwas Matt&#8217;s birthday. All the nieces and nephews wished him<br \/>\na happy birthday in their own special way.<br \/>\n17 May 2009<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2009\/09\/Matts_bday_17May2009_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2009\/09\/Matts_bday_17May2009_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\">Before everyone went home from Nashville,<br \/>\nwe took a picture of Nana and Granddad with all the grandkids.<br \/>\n17 May 2009<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2009\/09\/grandkids_17May2009.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\">Damian enjoys watching his cousin Cody play videogames.<br \/>\n03 July 2009<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2009\/09\/playing_game_03July2009.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\">Damian fell asleep on the couch.<br \/>\n27 July 2009<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2009\/09\/D_sleeping_27July2009.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry that there aren&#8217;t more pictures. Besides not blogging, I also have not been taking many pictures. The summer of 2009 was extremely oppressive in Texas, and I got depressed with the drought and the triple-digit heat, as I think many Texans did. But, with the arrival of autumn and cooler temperatures and rain, my mood is starting to lift. It&#8217;s nice not being stuck in recycled air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have said it before and I will say it again: I am amazingly lucky in my in-laws. I married into an awesome family. This includes a really nice, very thoughtful father-in-law who is always planning and executing events for the family. And to this very nice father-in-law I have lied about four times over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}