{"id":4305,"date":"2016-01-21T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:29","slug":"time-doing-what-it-does-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4305","title":{"rendered":"TIME &#8211; DOING WHAT IT DOES BEST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This past weekend we celebrated our little Princess who is now an unbelievably BIG 9-year-old.I really don&#8217;t know what to write about the affair because the &#8220;time flies&#8221; angle has been done to death. I am now at the age when at least once a day one of my contemporaries will Facebook post\u00a0A. Where does the time go?B. They grow up so fast!C. I can&#8217;t believe how big s\/he has gotten!or the like.It&#8217;s all so bittersweet. We have a digital picture frame on the shelf in our living room and the pictures get a little more dated each day &#8211; and a bit more precious. Sarah is halfway to 18.\u00a0Halfway to 18. And if these 9 years flew this quickly, what about the 9 coming up? And when THOSE 9 years pass, we will initiate the &#8220;empty nest&#8221; years! \u00a0&gt;Gulp!&lt;I am freaking myself out with these thoughts and need to refocus on the present. Here are some photos to get me back on track&#8230;Friday celebration at Cowman with chocolate cupcakes. (The recipe on the side of Hershey&#8217;s cocoa makes a better cake mix than anything you can buy in the store!)<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160115_093501-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Late Friday night, after Sarah went to bed, the three older kids decorated the living room to surprise her in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160116_064342-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday morning Skyping with Grandma Trudy while Sarah opens one of her presents.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160116_084738-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friends over for a party with a Lego theme. Floor very dangerous!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afternoon on the new zipline with her friends.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160116_205236-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160116_115523-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160119_205035-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160116_110432-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160117_070248-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The morning after&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend we celebrated our little Princess who is now an unbelievably BIG 9-year-old.I really don&#8217;t know what to write about the affair because the &#8220;time flies&#8221; angle has been done to death. I am now at the age when at least once a day one of my contemporaries will Facebook post\u00a0A. Where does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","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\/4305","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=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}