{"id":12383,"date":"2019-09-28T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=12383"},"modified":"2019-09-28T15:12:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T20:12:58","slug":"august-2019-emma-and-eli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=12383","title":{"rendered":"August 2019: Emma and Eli"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Happy School Year! \u00a0I love that we start a calendar year in January and a school year in August. \u00a0New beginnings that are all full of possibilities!<\/div>\n
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Emma is in 5th grade this year, which is middle school at NCCS. \u00a0Eli is in 1st grade. \u00a0These are exciting days for our kids and we love watching them learn and grow! \u00a0This is also my 15th year at NCCS and I am more thrilled than ever about this amazing calling that the Lord has placed on my life to watch our high school students take steps towards what God has called them to spend their lives doing. \u00a0Another new thing for us is that Emma is playing middle school softball for the school and I\u2019m enjoying being the assistant coach for that team. \u00a0She is really enjoying her new teammates and the chance to play for her school. \u00a0Eli is running cross country again this year and also playing soccer through the Y. \u00a0The goal is to keep Eli super active so that he can sleep well each night!<\/div>\n
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The first week of school we took the entire Upper School on retreat which is always a precious time for our faculty and students. \u00a0The next week Emma went on the Middle School retreat for the first time ever! \u00a0I always go up to visit the MS retreat for one day and it was such a treat to get to see her there with her friends. \u00a0We decided at the last minute to hit the road to Memphis for a big reunion of the Abel-Graffam-Strange families. \u00a0It had been almost 2 years since the whole crew was all together\u2026Mom, all the siblings and spouses, and all 6 grandkids\/cousins. \u00a0We had a BLAST together\u2026tons of giggles, lots of great food, and awesome quality time! \u00a0My brother and his family just moved back from being stationed in Germany and will now be based on out DC. \u00a0So happy to have them stateside! \u00a0My mom had one goal for the weekend\u2026a family picture with all the people.<\/div>\n
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Clint and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary on August 23.\u00a0 What a treasure to see the way that Clint loves and leads our family so well.\u00a0 These first 16 years have FLOWN by.\u00a0 We can’t wait to see what God has in store for the years ahead!<\/div>\n
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We spent the rest of August doing all the summer things that we wanted to do before fall arrived. \u00a0Insider info\u2026I\u2019m writing this towards the end of September and fall STILL hasn\u2019t arrived. \u00a0We had snow cones at Pelican\u2019s, did lots of swimming, played outside for hours, and soaked up all the sunshine we could!<\/div>\n
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Emma and Eli are growing so much. \u00a0This summer was such a treat to get to know more about them as little people as they are becoming more of who God created them to be. \u00a0They are both so enjoyable to be around! \u00a0We love their sense of humor, their thirst for knowledge, and mostly the way that they are both growing in their faith and seem to have a heart for serving others. \u00a0With a new school year underway, we can\u2019t wait to see what God has in store for them both!<\/div>\n
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Happy School Year! \u00a0I love that we start a calendar year in January and a school year in August. \u00a0New beginnings that are all full of possibilities! Emma is in 5th grade this year, which is middle school at NCCS. \u00a0Eli is in 1st grade. \u00a0These are exciting days for our kids and we love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,37,12,16,32,18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-eli","category-emma","category-family","category-marriage","category-north-cobb-christian","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}