{"id":772,"date":"2009-11-17T10:13:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/?p=772"},"modified":"2009-11-17T10:13:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:13:56","slug":"thankful-for-the-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Thankful for the boys-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and men in my life.&nbsp; I am surrounded by males.&nbsp;&nbsp; Normally outnumbered by the men in my life, I usually voice my appreciation for the women in my life.&nbsp; But the guys are central and essential to my well being.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Aidans-early-Nov.-visit-077.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"244\" alt=\"Aidan's early Nov. visit 077\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Aidans-early-Nov.-visit-077_thumb.jpg\" width=\"184\" border=\"0\"><\/a> This is not my best picture of my husband, Frank, but it is the way I see him often.&nbsp; He is a fixer, by nature.&nbsp; His hands are full of tools and pieces of stuff to be repaired or replaced.&nbsp; He loves to bring back the beauty and usefulness of&nbsp; broken and tarnished items.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC01127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DSC01127\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC01127_thumb.jpg\" width=\"239\" border=\"0\"><\/a> Jordan.&nbsp; He is my awareness specialist.&nbsp; He keeps me up to date about the world- opens up areas of thought that I may have overlooked- talks to me about ideas and events- and makes THE best coffee I&#8217;ve ever been privileged to drink.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Chincoteague-2009-Luke-050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Chincoteague 2009 (Luke) 050\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Chincoteague-2009-Luke-050_thumb.jpg\" width=\"239\" border=\"0\"><\/a> Luke.&nbsp; It was hard to find a picture of just Luke by himself.&nbsp; He is a father and most pictures show him in that role.&nbsp; And since he is in seminary studying to be a priest, he is truly going to be Fr. Luke.<\/p>\n<p>Luke is my first born- we grew up together- he taught me how to be a mother and he made motherhood a joy for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_6703.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"161\" alt=\"IMG_6703\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_6703_thumb.jpg\" width=\"239\" border=\"0\"><\/a> Aidan.&nbsp; The joy of my life. <a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Aidans-early-Nov.-visit-060.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Aidan's early Nov. visit 060\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Aidans-early-Nov.-visit-060_thumb.jpg\" width=\"239\" border=\"0\"><\/a> Both Aidan and Aiden!<\/p>\n<p>I am so thankful for these boys\/men in&nbsp; my life.<\/p>\n<p>God has blessed me richly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and men in my life.&nbsp; I am surrounded by males.&nbsp;&nbsp; Normally outnumbered by the men in my life, I usually voice my appreciation for the women in my life.&nbsp; But the guys are central and essential to my well being. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=772\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stepsonthejourney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}