{"id":111,"date":"2009-02-14T16:22:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T21:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aprilmichele.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2009-02-14T16:22:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T21:22:52","slug":"happy-happy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/2009\/02\/14\/happy-happy-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy, Happy Valentines Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well you should have seen both Celeste and Little Joe&#8217;s faces when they saw the apartment.\u00a0 Celeste had no idea that the apartment was for her.\u00a0 She thought it might be for me as a get away from everything.\u00a0 That would have been a good idea too but she needed to have a place of her own where she could feel at home instead of just &#8216;staying&#8217; here.\u00a0 She&#8217;s an amazing young woman and I wanted to show her my faith in her.<\/p>\n<p>Little Joe was running from room to room yelling &#8220;Mommy come see this&#8221; he was so excited and down right tickled at just about every turn.\u00a0 He absolutely loved his new bedroom.\u00a0 He came out with a huge smile on his face, looked at me and said &#8220;Is this all for me?\u00a0 Thank you Mamaw April, I love it all&#8221; and then gave me a big hug and a kiss.\u00a0 He loved his bed and the wall mural my friend painted for him of all of the animals he loves so much.\u00a0 I was quite impressed with the way it turned out myself.<\/p>\n<p>Celeste cried.\u00a0 She looked at me and said &#8220;How am I ever going to be able to repay you for all you have done for Little Joe and I?&#8221;\u00a0 The look on their faces was all the repayment I needed.\u00a0 I simply told her &#8220;Make yourself and Little Joe proud by going to college and making a wonderful life for you and Little Joe.\u00a0 That&#8217;s all the repayment I need.\u00a0 Well that and having you two in my life, I can&#8217;t ask for any more than that.\u00a0 You have brought more\u00a0 light and love into my life as I have yours and this is my way of thanking you for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, we stood there and cried like a couple of idiots but isn&#8217;t love grand?\u00a0 Love comes in all shapes and sizes.\u00a0 It comes in many different forms too and people need to realize that.\u00a0 Love of a friend or child is every bit as important as Love of a husband or wife so cherish all forms of love you have!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well you should have seen both Celeste and Little Joe&#8217;s faces when they saw the apartment.\u00a0 Celeste had no idea that the apartment was for her.\u00a0 She thought it might be for me as a get away from everything.\u00a0 That would have been a good idea too but she needed to have a place of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/2009\/02\/14\/happy-happy-valentines-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy, Happy Valentines Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communitycharity","category-familyfriends","category-holidays-parties","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}