{"id":27470,"date":"2018-07-02T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?p=27470"},"modified":"2018-07-02T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:16:07","slug":"june-come-and-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=27470","title":{"rendered":"June, come and gone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And that&#8217;s the first month of summer done, without so much as a please or thank you!<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t do anything too remarkable &#8211; no big ranch trips or sight seeing. We tried to hit the summer studies with some regularity (with plenty of push-back, and therefore, mixed success), but mostly June was a chance to really settle into the experience of life without constant interruptions: absolutely no licensing or DCS visits, no hearings, no court ordered counseling appointments; just being together as a family. What exquisite luxury! I&#8217;m still pinching myself.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what it looked like on Instagram:<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The big event of the month was Alyssa&#8217;s birthday &#8211; #6 for our sweetie-pie! Her big present this year was an art kit with an easel, plus acrylic, watercolor, and oil paints. She&#8217;s really taken off artistically and I&#8217;m thrilled to give her better tools with which to explore her creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the rest of my small collection of June photos &#8211; including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the children having an impromptu painting party with Megan on her bedroom floor<\/li>\n<li>the birthday<\/li>\n<li>a family dinner<\/li>\n<li>kids greeting daddy as he arrived home<\/li>\n<li>a typical game of Hop on Pop<\/li>\n<li>and some great shots of the boys having a water fight in the front yard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned for July &#8211; we&#8217;ll be starting things off with a bang (hahaha!) by going up to the ranch for the holiday weekend. Can&#8217;t wait to show you the fun!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that&#8217;s the first month of summer done, without so much as a please or thank you! We didn&#8217;t do anything too remarkable &#8211; no big ranch trips or sight seeing. We tried to hit the summer studies with some regularity (with plenty of push-back, and therefore, mixed success), but mostly June was a chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[628,350,659,101,43,3,228,91,121,273,490,700,638,338,156],"tags":[703,551,420,484,152,476,691,702,34,701],"class_list":["post-27470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adopted-joy","category-adoption","category-bw","category-birthday","category-celebrations","category-family","category-fellowship","category-food","category-fun","category-gatherings","category-gifts","category-instagram","category-kids-in-action","category-love","category-photography-art","tag-action","tag-birthday","tag-black-and-white","tag-celebration","tag-family-3","tag-fun","tag-homeschool","tag-instagram","tag-photography-2","tag-water-fight","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27470"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27548,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27470\/revisions\/27548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}