{"id":10003,"date":"2013-11-04T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10003"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:31","slug":"fun-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10003","title":{"rendered":"FUN ADULTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve spent a good chunk of time this weekend on catching up with my grading because it’s the end of the first quarter already and report cards are due this week.\u00a0 (The rest of the weekend was spent on procrastinating on catching up with my grading.)So this afternoon I came across this bit of writing from Samuel about his Uncle Spencer and I just have to share it somewhere, so why not here?\u00a0 It was supposed to be a “Character Sketch” paragraph, but it basically describes how Samuel treats his uncle like a jungle gym:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Whenever I lounge beside my Uncle Spencer, he’ll mumble, “Who’s your favorite uncle?” I usually admit, “Uncle Ryan.”\u00a0 If I want to sit on his lap, I reply, “You!”\u00a0 Then he’ll drop me onto his knee.\u00a0 We worship at the same church.\u00a0 After the sermon I always fly toward him and he heaves me up in his arms.\u00a0 Then I’ll shift onto his back and put my arms around his neck.\u00a0 He’ll present to me a piggy-back ride.\u00a0 I push off and he throws me side to side in his hands. He is my favorite uncle.<\/em>Sorry Ryan, Russ, Darin and Randy!\u00a0 (Though I am sure Samuel is thinking of you all too – and missing you all.\u00a0 Not to mention all the aunts, cousins, grandmas and friends.)I did notice that\u00a0Samuel wrote\u00a0this in the present tense … which somehow\u00a0strikes me as bittersweet.I should also include the bit of brainstorming he did at the top of the page this was written on.\u00a0 I asked all the students to\u00a0list five people they could write about and include\u00a0a defining characteristic of each\u00a0before they chose one as the subject of their paragraph.Here’s what Samuel wrote:Ashley – worst enemy<\/em>Thomas – best friend<\/em>Kendal – little scientist<\/em>Sammy – cute baby boy<\/em>Uncle Spencer – fun adult<\/em>(I’m not sure what all Ashley, a former classmate,\u00a0did to Samuel, but she is marked for life!)All in all, though, my takeaway is that\u00a0Melissa and I\u00a0have\u00a0reason to be\u00a0thankful for Uncle Spencer and all the other “fun adults” in our kids’ lives, both in the States and in Haiti!\u00a0 You all are in our thoughts and prayers and we appreciate all the positive ways you impact our family’s life.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This was a few years back but it was the only picture I recalled of Samuel climbing on Uncle Spencer!\n\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent a good chunk of time this weekend on catching up with my grading because it’s the end of the first quarter already and report cards are due this week.\u00a0 (The rest of the weekend was spent on procrastinating on catching up with my grading.)So this afternoon I came across this bit of writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10005,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions\/10005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}