{"id":61963,"date":"2015-04-10T17:07:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T17:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/?p=61963"},"modified":"2015-04-10T17:08:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T17:08:47","slug":"my-adorable-elder-son-is-30-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2015\/04\/10\/my-adorable-elder-son-is-30-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"My Adorable Elder Son is 30 Years Old!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"geddeswannabepic\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I mean, I just blinked! <\/p>\n

\"picnic<\/a><\/p>\n

And poof!<\/p>\n

\"happyboyhood2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"spider<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Kataboy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ninja<\/a><\/p>\n

\"sunfish\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And now he is married to a lovely woman<\/strong> and they live in another state, and I am become one of those annoying ladies who tells young mothers \u201cappreciate it, even though it\u2019s hard, because it goes so fast\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sweetest baby, most relaxed baby ever born \u2014 and still the same dreamy planet he was the day he arrived<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\"fezboys2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2026despite all of my best and worst days of parenting \u2013 [my sons] are pretty much precisely the people they were on the days they were born.
\nThey are both, in a way, from outer space. Elder Son has always been the quiet dreamer of a planet, and Buster has always been the impatient supernova; they circle around us, in their own orbits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wouldn\u2019t have them any other way.<\/p>\n

\"Little<\/a><\/p>\n

Happy Birthday to my adorable, creative, autodidactic, strangely right-wing-leftist-determined-to-think-for-himself elder son. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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