{"id":70,"date":"2014-06-27T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2014\/06\/and-then-she-was-ten.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:02:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:02:28","slug":"and-then-she-was-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2014\/06\/and-then-she-was-ten.html","title":{"rendered":"And Then She Was Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">Ella turned ten on Saturday with a quiet birthday celebration with her best friend. The half-dozen girls she had planned on when she first started talking birthday in March would have been exhausting to her now.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Instead, we picked up her bestie and her mom on Satuday morning and headed to the mall for lunch, makeovers, and a movie.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The girls were thrilled with purple eye shadow and actually being allowed to wear mascara! (That was really what thrilled them\u2026mascara.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-OHwehi50GlM\/U647h68AS1I\/AAAAAAAACnQ\/Tfbt1UDTez0\/s640\/blogger-image-201093193.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-OHwehi50GlM\/U647h68AS1I\/AAAAAAAACnQ\/Tfbt1UDTez0\/s640\/blogger-image-201093193.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-v3cLOk6y4_g\/U647cd16ugI\/AAAAAAAACnA\/a4CRYCTG_Y8\/s640\/blogger-image--2085914224.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-v3cLOk6y4_g\/U647cd16ugI\/AAAAAAAACnA\/a4CRYCTG_Y8\/s640\/blogger-image--2085914224.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\">See those long lashes?<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\">After that it was <i>Maleficent<\/i> (which we LOVED!!!) and dinner with family and friends.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\">Sunday afternoon, we went and picked up her new wheelchair and said a prayer of thanksgiving for all of the people who so generously donated money so that she could get out of that yucky rental. Today we took it to the local auto body shop where he promised to paint it any way she wanted free of charge. (She wants royal blue like the Tardis.)<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\">All in all, it was a quiet but joyful celebration of our sweet girl, and a swell of gratitude for the people in our lives.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-tXQ62kk2PBA\/U647fIiL_0I\/AAAAAAAACnI\/cUSA6bb1urc\/s640\/blogger-image-208800627.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-tXQ62kk2PBA\/U647fIiL_0I\/AAAAAAAACnI\/cUSA6bb1urc\/s640\/blogger-image-208800627.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thank you all for sticking with us on this journey.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ella turned ten on Saturday with a quiet birthday celebration with her best friend. 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