{"id":3221,"date":"2012-04-02T11:56:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/04\/02\/this-weeks-happenings-326-41\/"},"modified":"2012-04-02T11:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:56:59","slug":"this-weeks-happenings-326-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/04\/02\/this-weeks-happenings-326-41\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Happenings 3\/26-4\/1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is so hard for me to believe that Easter is one weekend away.&#160; Anybody doing any fun Easter activities or crafts?&#160; Where has the time gone?<\/p>\n<p>Ben got home last Saturday, so we enjoyed lots of time with him over the weekend and then throughout the week.&#160; It was nice to have him home again.&#160; I think Mikayla enjoyed her daddy time this week as well.<\/p>\n<p>He brought back lots of goodies from the states so we played with those and even ate some too!&#160; He was even able to snag a box of our two favorite Girl Scout cookies (Tagalongs and Thin Mints) so we enjoyed those as well.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter J 004\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter J 004\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Letter-J-004.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Enjoying a Girl Scout cookie daddy brought home!<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter J 007\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter J 007\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Letter-J-007.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Sporting her new apron from her Great Aunt Ellen&#8230;thanks, she loves it and the goodies that were inside!<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">On Thursday, Mikayla and I headed into town with some other staff members to pick up my driver&#8217;s license (and some other errands for others).&#160; I am now an official Swazi driver!&#160; More than I can say for Ben!&#160; Unfortunately, on the way in Mikayla got sick.&#160; She threw up several times and was very lethargic and sleepy for the rest of the day.&#160; The unfortunate thing about our situation was we were two hours from home and with other people so we couldn&#8217;t exactly turn around and head back.&#160; She was a trooper though and curled up on my lap for most of the day sleeping.&#160; By the time we got home she had a temperature of 103.6!&#160; It dropped quickly as soon as we got some Tylenol into her system.&#160; The next couple of days were filled with lots of time on the toilet and very restless nights.&#160; Needless to say, we all took a day of rest on Sunday!&#160; I am thankful to say she is on the mend and was feeling back to her regular self today!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter J 020\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter J 020\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Letter-J-020.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>A silly Mikayla face&#8230;love this picture though!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter J 032\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter J 032\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Letter-J-032.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>I have mentioned Joe a couple of times, but haven&#8217;t posted a picture of him yet.&#160; Here he is showing Ben a bottle of Chicago Bourbon he found at a store in town.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Ben and I plan on getting up at 3 am to watch the National Championship Basketball game.&#160; It will make for a sleepy day tomorrow, but hopefully it will be well worth our time investment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is so hard for me to believe that Easter is one weekend away.&#160; Anybody doing any fun Easter activities or crafts?&#160; Where has the time gone? Ben got home last Saturday, so we enjoyed lots of time with him over the weekend and then throughout the week.&#160; It was nice to have him home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[91,116],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-africa","tag-weeks-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}