{"id":11612,"date":"2007-02-01T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/01\/simple-solitude-without-minivan-babysitting-goodness"},"modified":"2007-02-01T08:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T13:28:00","slug":"simple-solitude-without-minivan-babysitting-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2007\/02\/01\/simple-solitude-without-minivan-babysitting-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Solitude without Minivan Babysitting Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a dream…. seriously, last night<\/span> I did. [I confess to you as Cheddar stares me down from atop of Robin’s journal on the dresser<\/span>.] It was a funny little dream. Andy Weems<\/span>, the director of Crosswalk Campus<\/span> Ministries, was there. He needed to meet with me for lunch. But I had all of Matt’s brothers and sisters to take care of, so they had to come with me. [Boots pops up into my lap, smelling the keyboard.] I knew James (8yr old) would get bored really quickly so I debated whether or not to go to lunch. But I did not want to let Andy down. I was at church with part of the Stauffer<\/span> clan; William, James, Sarah, Steven, Cat (by default). [Cheddar approaches, feeling unloved and needing a pet.] The only ones<\/span> missing out the the Stauffer<\/span> clan were Ellen, Ron and Matt. I remember the tedious phone call<\/span> with Andy as I attempted to figure out where we were having lunch and tried to round up the Stauffer<\/span> clan. There occurred much interruption and massive confusion added with a dose of frustration. [Cheddar purrs.] The lunch location was decided to be at a friend’s house. This friend was not a mutual friend of me and Andy’s, but they knew Andy. The attraction to that destination? They had a pool. That would entertain the masses. [Boots curls up on my heated blanket.] And right as I pulled the Stauffer<\/span> van into the driveway I thought to myself, “We don’t have swimming gear.” And I woke up.<\/p>\n

You know, it can be lonely sometimes to wake up to a quiet house with only a few cats on the prowl.<\/p>\n

But other times, I really do enjoy the solitude of me…
and my Cheddar…
and Boots.<\/p>\n

Thank You, God, for those moments of simplicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a dream…. seriously, last night I did. [I confess to you as Cheddar stares me down from atop of Robin’s journal on the dresser.] It was a funny little dream. Andy Weems, the director of Crosswalk Campus Ministries, was there. He needed to meet with me for lunch. But I had all of… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}