{"id":1583,"date":"2010-01-09T01:25:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T08:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2021-03-17T19:54:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T02:54:37","slug":"ethernet-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/09\/ethernet-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethernet Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about my dad a lot lately. December 30th would have been my parents’ 40th wedding anniversary – if he had lived that long. I remember how much my neices and nephews enjoyed their grandpa – and he them – story time, living room forts, tickle monsters… I know there is little sense in dwelling on what is not possible, but sometimes I imagine what would have been – my daughter with her grandfather.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine was going through her photos recently and found a couple I had not seen before. These pictures were taken four years ago at a dear friends wedding, and they landed in my inbox right when I needed to see them (Thanks Sharon).<\/p>\n

The first photo: my two favorite men, my husband and my father. This may be the only picture we have of just the two of them.<\/p>\n

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The second photo: my husband and I with my parents.<\/p>\n

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So what little blessings have taken your breath away recently?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about my dad a lot lately. December 30th would have been my parents’ 40th wedding anniversary – if he had lived that long. I remember how much my neices and nephews enjoyed their grandpa – and he them – story time, living room forts, tickle monsters… I know there is little sense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[695,138,1041,1047],"tags":[39,287,27,28,631,671,11,24,13,329],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-2","category-parenting-living-well","category-life-skills","category-someone-you-love-has-cancer","tag-alaska","tag-blessings","tag-dad","tag-extended-family","tag-grieving","tag-life-lessons-2","tag-mom","tag-photography-creating-a-living","tag-mr-h","tag-weddings","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"695":{"name":"Cancer","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/cancer-2\/"},"138":{"name":"Parenting & Family","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/parenting-living-well\/"},"1041":{"name":"Tools & Skills for Living","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/life-skills\/"},"1047":{"name":"When Someone You Love Has Cancer","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/parenting-with-cancer\/someone-you-love-has-cancer\/"}},"tags_names":{"39":{"name":"Alaska","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/alaska\/"},"287":{"name":"blessings","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/blessings\/"},"27":{"name":"dad","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/dad\/"},"28":{"name":"Extended Family","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/extended-family\/"},"631":{"name":"grieving","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/grieving\/"},"671":{"name":"life lessons","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/life-lessons-2\/"},"11":{"name":"mom","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/mom\/"},"24":{"name":"Photography","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/photography-creating-a-living\/"},"13":{"name":"The Husband","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/mr-h\/"},"329":{"name":"weddings","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/weddings\/"}},"comments_number":0,"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fDeG-px","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":144,"url":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/27\/count-your-blessings\/","url_meta":{"origin":1583,"position":0},"title":"Count Your Blessings","author":"Judy Schwartz Haley","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"Since Dad got sick, Mom's been going through a downsizing mode. 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