{"id":7158,"date":"2011-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7158"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","slug":"day-83-hairbows-for-haiti-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7158","title":{"rendered":"Day 83 &#8211; Hairbows for Haiti (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were stranded at home today (like 100 million others) by the &#8220;historic&#8221; snow and ice storm.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve just had the ice part of it.\u00a0 The trees are starting to lose some branches and Melissa swears she is seeing our lights flicker now and then.\u00a0 The kids are all hoping the power goes out because Melissa made the mistake of telling them that if the power goes, we might just have to invite ourselves over to Steve and Keri&#8217;s house.\u00a0 They have a fireplace and a kerosene heater and are within walking distance.\u00a0 Melissa and I are thinking survival &#8230;\u00a0our kids are thinking Monster Slumber Party with Steve and Keri&#8217;s four kids.\u00a0 Dats (age 9) wants a schedule:\u00a0 &#8220;If the power goes out, when do you think that will be?&#8221;\u00a0  Of course, Melissa and I were going to get all sorts of things done today.\u00a0 Reality fell short of expectations.\u00a0 Steve&#8217;s accomplishments:\u00a0 showered, cut fingernails, carried on a political argument on Facebook, stayed awake throughout a family viewing of &#8220;Nanny McPhee Returns&#8221;, made homemade lemonade, and caught up on my blog writing (assuming I do finish this entry).\u00a0 Melissa&#8217;s accomplishments:\u00a0 showered, cooked chicken-fried chicken and mashed potatoes for dinner, checked the weather repeatedly, endured wallering by The Princess (age 4) throughout &#8220;Nanny McPhee Returns&#8221;, and sorted through the girls&#8217; hairbow collection.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEho3TgDPOMCRwRFozHbMQFHI2kRH0v_bEicr0O0wuU3TBu5Y0rO4LxL8PaMeXsmc8EMaSoHsqygKe0xYOl6OfOSPuDj3N5knAnQaTRNe3OOKl1qz7UAkoW0nKDh-3HfANL4eQ9r0LZTbE4\/s200\/Picture+169.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The extra hairbows are to be given away.\u00a0 If we can keep track of them for the next several months, we&#8217;ll take them to Haiti with us this summer to give away.\u00a0 The little girls there LOVE their hairbows.\u00a0  By the way, &#8220;Nanny McPhee Returns&#8221; was pretty decent.\u00a0 The moral of the story, as I saw it (through half open eyes), was that a family doesn&#8217;t need Nanny McPhee and her magic once Dad comes home&#8230;\u00a0 Good message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were stranded at home today (like 100 million others) by the &#8220;historic&#8221; snow and ice storm.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve just had the ice part of it.\u00a0 The trees are starting to lose some branches and Melissa swears she is seeing our lights flicker now and then.\u00a0 The kids are all hoping the power goes out because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7158","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\/7158","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=7158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7159,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions\/7159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}