{"id":6699,"date":"2011-03-19T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"day-126-records-etc-throw-and-progress-towards-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6699","title":{"rendered":"Day 126 – Records, etc (Throw) and Progress Towards Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tired.\u00a0 I don’t have too much to write\u00a0regarding things I’ve thrown away – I’ve been tossing a lot of stuff about every day\u00a0this week as we get the house prepared for\u00a0our Open House on Sunday.\u00a0 For instance, I had set aside several records that I had various plans for.\u00a0 They were on\u00a0a table in the living room and I just am tired of looking at them, so I tossed them today.\u00a0 Should have done that when I threw all the rest of those records away a few weeks ago. More significant today were two steps toward getting the kids to Haiti this summer.\u00a0 First, Melissa took the four to Walgreens to get passport photos and then we all headed to the post office to get the paperwork finished up and sent off.\u00a0 Melissa had already printed the paperwork off the website, gathered birth certificates, etc.\u00a0 Now all we had to do was write a big old check.\u00a0 Ouch.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Poor\u00a0Princess (age 4)\u00a0wasn’t feeling well… still!\u00a0 She scowled at the photographer at Walgreens.\u00a0 At the post office, she whined about wanting to go home.\u00a0 Once she got home, she crawled into bed and … promptly\u00a0threw up.\u00a0 It was ugly (But I’ve seen worse).\u00a0 She’s had a rough few days now.\u00a0 After a bath, she finally got to sleep, clutching a tissue in one hand and her bucket in the other. (Sorry to get distracted from the other step toward Haiti… but I had to work this picture in!)\u00a0 Here’s the other step.\u00a0 We belong to a church that takes missions very seriously.\u00a0 Fifteen percent of what the church receives through offerings goes directly to support various missionaries – most of them homegrown.\u00a0 Also, the church has the policy of giving 50% financial support to members who go on short-term mission trips.\u00a0 The church supported Melissa last June and me in October and I got an email from the pastor today saying the church would\u00a0fund 50% of\u00a0the kids’ portion of our\u00a0trip this summer!\u00a0 That will be a BIG help in getting us there. Even though it’s been stressful and busy, we’ve certainly had a blessed week of spring break!\u00a0 God is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tired.\u00a0 I don’t have too much to write\u00a0regarding things I’ve thrown away – I’ve been tossing a lot of stuff about every day\u00a0this week as we get the house prepared for\u00a0our Open House on Sunday.\u00a0 For instance, I had set aside several records that I had various plans for.\u00a0 They were on\u00a0a table in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6699","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\/6699","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=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6701,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/6701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}