{"id":9124,"date":"2021-05-23T02:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9124"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","slug":"patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9124","title":{"rendered":"PATIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We had a wonderful day today – our niece Lauren got married.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

Here’s the happy couple at the reception:<\/p>\n\n\n

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And here’s my brother Spencer doing the Father\/Daughter dance with Lauren:<\/p>\n\n\n

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It really got me thinking – Melissa and I MIGHT be just a few years away from such a scene in our own family. Not that any of our kids is currently on a fast-track towards marriage, but three of the four are college age now and who knows what the next couple of years could bring.<\/p>\n\n\n

I suspect I will be one of those rare fathers who is overly-emotional at each of his kids’ weddings. I won’t be able to hold it together.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

I’ve known parents who push, push, push for their kids to get married and start families, but, for me, time is already moving way too quickly, so I am in no rush to see that day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

It will come soon enough.<\/p>\n\n\n

In the meantime, Melissa and I are enjoying this new stage in our family’s life – having children who are young adults.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

Here’s a family shot from before the ceremony, courtesy of my brother, Russ:<\/p>\n\n\n

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One last thought that occurred to me in the midst of my niece’s wedding festivities today: While I am patiently awaiting my own kids’ wedding days, I might want to start figuring out a way to earn a little extra money …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a wonderful day today – our niece Lauren got married.\u00a0 Here’s the happy couple at the reception: And here’s my brother Spencer doing the Father\/Daughter dance with Lauren: \u00a0 \u00a0 It really got me thinking – Melissa and I MIGHT be just a few years away from such a scene in our own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9124","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\/9124","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=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9129,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions\/9129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}