{"id":20653,"date":"2013-11-06T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/?p=20653"},"modified":"2013-11-06T08:59:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:59:02","slug":"deployment-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/deployment-day-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Deployment Day #7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I painted the girls’ room. They are getting a new bed tomorrow and I wanted to get it painted before the bed arrived. The last new<\/em> bed we bought was when we lived in Virginia Beach, before any of our girls were born.<\/p>\n

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I remember taking all three kids to the furniture store and picking it out. I remember thinking I would never take ALL three kids to a furniture store again. We picked out a sturdy bunk and a dresser. I wanted something that could take a beating from our two little boys.<\/p>\n

That was twelve years and ten houses ago.<\/p>\n

It seems like a lifetime. All seven of our kids have had that bunk bed in their room over the past twelve years. Today I”ll put an ad in Craigslist and give it away.<\/p>\n

Some of the kids are struggling.<\/p>\n

My oldest boy has grown up more in one week than in the past year. He’s “stepped up” because that’s what you do.<\/p>\n

I’m proud of him.<\/p>\n

I’m proud of all of them.<\/p>\n

They didn’t ask for this life, but they’ve accepted it and lived it with few complaints and much joy.<\/p>\n

My husband has been deployed to the Middle East for 274 days.\u00a0 These are my real thoughts expressing my heart during his absence.\u00a0 I appreciate your prayers and kind words as we cope, adapt, and carry on without him until August 2014.\u00a0 To read from the beginning, click here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I painted the girls’ room. They are getting a new bed tomorrow and I wanted to get it painted before the bed arrived. The last new bed we bought was when we lived in Virginia Beach, before any of our girls were born. I remember taking all three kids to the furniture store and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[785,2795],"class_list":{"0":"post-20653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-military","7":"tag-deployment","8":"tag-deployment-2013","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20656,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653\/revisions\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}