{"id":1777,"date":"2013-01-06T08:56:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T14:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2013-01-06T08:56:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T14:56:48","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started blogging again several years ago, I rarely went a month without putting a post up.&#160; Unfortunately, it looks like I got out of the habit and have gone almost 6 months with a post.&#160; Whoops!&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Looking back at the last six months, it has been anything but uneventful.&#160; In fact, there has been so much going on that it probably contributed to the blog-silence.&#160; So, here is a quick run down on the big things that have gone down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There has been a lot of traveling with the Cabrini crew \u2013 both coming and going<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>3 staff members went to the states for the AIDS 2012 conference<\/li>\n<li>Five &quot;sisters in training&quot; came and stayed with us for spiritual development<\/li>\n<li>We had a fundraising trip in the states that all the Kickerts plus Sister Diane went on (more on that later).<\/li>\n<li>The sisters have been all over the place doing &quot;sister&quot; work and taking some down time<\/li>\n<li>We have had two short-term volunteer come and go<\/li>\n<li>Joe has gone to the states for some time with Family<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>We were able to spend 6 weeks in the US and it was very busy time<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>I spent time in New York, Philadephia, St. Louis, Chicago, Nashville<\/li>\n<li>It was great catching up with friends and family<\/li>\n<li>I became an uncle on my side when Tim and Chel had their first baby <\/li>\n<li>My grandmother passed away<\/li>\n<li>We got to enjoy some down time together as a family and see the sites in NYC and London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>We wrapped up our funding year and took some time to look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabriniministries.org\/about-us\/annual-program-report\" target=\"_blank\">all the accomplishments<\/a> happening in Swaziland<\/li>\n<li>Simo, one of the twins we watched <a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/12\/29\/simo\/\" target=\"_blank\">was killed<\/a> when his house collapsed on him.<\/li>\n<li>We found out we were <a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/12\/30\/big-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\">pregnant<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you really want scoop on what has gone on with the Kickerts in the last six months, be sure to go to Beth&#8217;s blog&#8230; she even does pictures!&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/beth.kickert.info\">http:\/\/beth.kickert.info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started blogging again several years ago, I rarely went a month without putting a post up.&#160; Unfortunately, it looks like I got out of the habit and have gone almost 6 months with a post.&#160; Whoops!&#160; Looking back at the last six months, it has been anything but uneventful.&#160; In fact, there has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[420,748,747,749],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-random","tag-blogging","tag-catching-up","tag-events-2","tag-kickerts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}