{"id":2066,"date":"2011-04-16T19:31:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T02:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2017-06-29T08:25:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T15:25:16","slug":"ramping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=2066","title":{"rendered":"Ramping up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been chastised for neglecting my updates here, so I need to rectify that oversight.\u00c2\u00a0 I truly have been very busy this week, and it isn&#8217;t going to get any less busy until after Easter.<\/p>\n<p>Today, for example, I got out of taking Jacob to Karate while the older girls went to shooting practice only because I had a 9-11am choir rehearsal (which, in case you were curious, was as always, extremely fun).\u00c2\u00a0 Got home from that around 11:20, had time to bring in the mail and say hello to mother, eat several slices of Dave&#8217;s Spicy Pickles, load up Geneva and Megan, and drive them first to QT to pick 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