{"id":6865,"date":"2023-12-18T04:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6865"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","slug":"calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6865","title":{"rendered":"CALENDAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I finished some of my Christmas &#8220;shopping&#8221; this evening &#8211; I always create a calendar on Snapfish for everyone in the family.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been procrastinating on this project (like I do every year) because it&#8217;s time consuming, but once I get started, I enjoy the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For one thing, I was glad to rummage around in the cloud and pull a few of the better photos from last year to get a little more exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even better, putting the calendar together reminded me that 2023 has been a great year. Outside of my mother-in-law&#8217;s cancer diagnosis, the year was full of significant positive milestones and some memorable times out of town.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Melissa switched from her kindergarten classroom to first grade.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Caleb graduated from Wabash College and started his service with the Army.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Hannah spent 5 weeks in Rome.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Samuel made more than $10,000 over the summer selling books door to door.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Sarah got into two show choirs as a high school junior, took leadership as a dance captain, got her driver&#8217;s license, and bought her first car.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>And I finished up two years of doctoral level classes and started into my dissertation while learning how to juggle missionary work with pastoring a little country church.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were trips to Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, and Florida with lots of time among family.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But best of all, I feel I made some real progress spiritually this past year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God willing, there&#8217;s much more ground to cover in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished some of my Christmas &#8220;shopping&#8221; this evening &#8211; I always create a calendar on Snapfish for everyone in the family.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been procrastinating on this project (like I do every year) because it&#8217;s time consuming, but once I get started, I enjoy the process.\u00a0 For one thing, I was glad to rummage around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865","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=6865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}