{"id":9078,"date":"2014-04-22T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9078"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:30","slug":"good-friday-water-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9078","title":{"rendered":"GOOD FRIDAY WATER WARS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While\u00a0our friends and family back home in Indiana are barely a week out from the latest (and last??) snow shower, we are well into the heat of what feels like SUMMER here.\u00a0 Good Friday was hot and sunny and we had the day off from school.\u00a0 After spending some time in Daniel&#8217;s neighborhood in the morning (more about that in another post), it was refreshing in more ways than one to have a simple task like washing the truck turn into a raging water war among\u00a0our four\u00a0kids and my\u00a0three\u00a0&#8220;Haitian sons&#8221; &#8211; Ruysdael, Johnny, and Mikenn.It started with a simple chore request from Melissa: &#8220;Somebody&#8221; needs to wash the truck.\u00a0 Our kids decided they should put on swimsuits since the work might get a bit wet.I drove the truck around to the back of the house, broke out some rags and borrowed a hose from the Bundy&#8217;s next door.\u00a0 For the first few minutes of the job, some actual work got accomplished.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140418_132840-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140418_133526-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140418_132400-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Caleb broke out a water gun &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140418_133610-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All downhill from there!<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140418_133915-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140418_135129-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For well over an hour.Finally, Melissa called a truce for some freezer pops.\u00a0 (Looks like Caleb is experiencing a bit of brain freeze here!)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But then out came the water balloons!<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140418_151607-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0our friends and family back home in Indiana are barely a week out from the latest (and last??) snow shower, we are well into the heat of what feels like SUMMER here.\u00a0 Good Friday was hot and sunny and we had the day off from school.\u00a0 After spending some time in Daniel&#8217;s neighborhood in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9078","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\/9078","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=9078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9096,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078\/revisions\/9096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}