{"id":17979,"date":"2017-03-19T14:22:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/?p=17979"},"modified":"2017-03-19T14:22:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T12:22:25","slug":"entering-our-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/19\/entering-our-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Entering Our Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had the opportunity to host our team leaders for a week of blessing this past month. The Jacksons are just such a wonderful family and we&#8217;re thankful to have gotten the chance to share our normal with them.\u00a0They were overflowing with grace at our early rising crew and\u00a0Karla made quick friends with our little ladies, distracting and playing away the morning\u00a0while Matt and I were in language. The girls got used to their consistent hugs and the house just felt too quiet without them. Hannah ask 2 days after they left, &#8220;When&#8217;s Karla coming down for breakfast?&#8221; before she thought about it. =)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18293 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/img_8066.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8066\" width=\"584\" height=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Cheers, Karla! =)<\/p>\n<p>We got the chance\u00a0to do some fun things that week too, enjoying pizza at the restaurant down the road, going to a local park and even taking a whole day off of school and language to go play at the beach. We also enjoyed the normal together:\u00a0picking up the girls from school, running errands, Friday night pizza and a movie night, skyping with one of the Jackson kiddos (if that term is even applicable once their &#8220;kid&#8221; in in college. hehe), and family worship song\u00a0time.<\/p>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18295 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/img_8074.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8074\" width=\"481\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-18297 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/20170224_093048.jpg\" alt=\"20170224_093048\" width=\"527\" height=\"297\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-18298 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/20170224_094202.jpg\" alt=\"20170224_094202\" width=\"542\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Karla and Steve were beyond gracious to smile through the kid interruptions, convince Titan that he doesn&#8217;t need to use his teeth to\u00a0play (*sigh* puppies), and the realities of toddler tantrums. But I&#8217;ve got to tell you, friends, the sweetest time by far for me was\u00a0after the kids went to bed. I loved\u00a0just sitting around the table playing ticket to ride together and sitting out on the couch talking about God&#8217;s work in our lives. I loved the randomly placed times throughout the day when we got the opportunity to absorb wisdom about future ministry and laugh about Portuguese confusion. Karla and Steve are just such a blessing and we&#8217;re so thankful to have had the opportunity to do a week of life together. We can&#8217;t wait to work closer together on\u00a0the team down\u00a0south once we complete our training here.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for being\u00a0just another part of the family, Steve and Karla.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18288 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/img_8081.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8081\" width=\"574\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the opportunity to host our team leaders for a week of blessing this past month. The Jacksons are just such a wonderful family and we&#8217;re thankful to have gotten the chance to share our normal with them.\u00a0They were overflowing with grace at our early rising crew and\u00a0Karla made quick friends with our little&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/19\/entering-our-normal\/#more-17979\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/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-17979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17979","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=17979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}