{"id":4317,"date":"2011-06-15T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2011-06-15T21:10:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T01:10:21","slug":"the-gift-of-grandchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?p=4317","title":{"rendered":"THE GIFT OF GRANDCHILDREN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;children&#8217;s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.&#8221; proverbs 17:6<\/p>\n<p>enola climbed up in bed with great grandma to give her a kiss:)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?attachment_id=4318\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4318\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/enola-deandra-great-gramma-6-15-2011-003.jpg\" alt=\"enola, deandra &amp; great gramma 6-15-2011 003\" title=\"enola, deandra &amp; great gramma 6-15-2011 003\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i remember when elijah got to meet great grandma and i thought our new baby wasn&#8217;t going to get that chance! boy she is getting to meet more of them, than we ever thought!!!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?attachment_id=4319\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4319\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/enola-deandra-great-gramma-6-15-2011-005.jpg\" alt=\"enola, deandra &amp; great gramma 6-15-2011 005\" title=\"enola, deandra &amp; great gramma 6-15-2011 005\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>girl talk:)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?attachment_id=4320\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/enola-deandra-great-gramma-6-15-2011-007.jpg\" alt=\"enola, deandra &amp; great gramma 6-15-2011 007\" title=\"enola, deandra &amp; great gramma 6-15-2011 007\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>we truly get to see the gifts of God&#8217;s glory through the eyes of these precious little ones!<br \/>\ni love the legacy my mom passed to me and i am now passing to my children and their children, listening to evia sing Jesus loves me and reciting the Lords prayer yesterday, warmed my heart and i thank the Lord, they have Jesus in their hearts:) grandchildren are gifts from God, one of the best gifts you could receive&#8230; a true reward!<\/p>\n<p>But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD&#8217;s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children&#8217;s children &#8212; with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts Psalm 103: 17-18<\/p>\n<p>once again thanking whitney for coming and letting us enjoy enola and deandra&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. we are so very blessed!<\/p>\n<p>we took the girls to the park, while whitney studied.enola made a friend there:)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?attachment_id=4324\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMAG0930.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0930\" title=\"IMAG0930\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>came home and enola wanted papa to come sit with her! i kept thinking the empty chair should have had eliza sitting in it! when enola looks at my computer, she says liza&#8230; she wants me to show her movies of eliza:)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?attachment_id=4325\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMAG0925.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0925\" title=\"IMAG0925\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>while up at stephs, enola got to have dilly bars with zac and connor, thanks susie for the visit:)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?attachment_id=4323\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMAG0934.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0934\" title=\"IMAG0934\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4323\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>enola playing with mom in the sand box<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?attachment_id=4326\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4326\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMAG0933.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0933\" title=\"IMAG0933\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>whit i really did enjoy our conversations these past few days and our readings to each other, even if they were hard to get through for me.<\/p>\n<p>Inspirational quote:<br \/>\n<em>Grown don&#8217;t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What&#8217;s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don&#8217;t mean a thing.<br \/>\n~Toni Morrison, Beloved<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;children&#8217;s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.&#8221; proverbs 17:6 enola climbed up in bed with great grandma to give her a kiss:) i remember when elijah got to meet great grandma and i thought our new baby wasn&#8217;t going to get that chance! boy she is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4341,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}