{"id":3135,"date":"2019-10-31T13:45:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T21:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:47:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T19:47:46","slug":"im-a-grandma-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/31\/im-a-grandma-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a grandma again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God is so good to our family! My son and DIL, after experiencing the stillborn death of their firstborn last year, just gave birth to a healthy baby girl. They say only 5% of babies are born on their due date. She&#8217;s in that 5%, born on her due date of October 30. God graciously granted the parents desire of their daughter not be born on Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>Being grandma hasn&#8217;t changed my life other than <a href=\"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/28\/not-a-real-grandma\/\" target=\"_blank\">using up my day off <\/a>to visit them.<\/p>\n<p>My couple of my friends go to their daughters&#8217; house to babysit their grandkids regularly, 1-2 days a week. I suppose if I wasn&#8217;t working I could do that. It sounds fun but tiring. We are grandmas, not moms anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be building into my schedule to visit one granddaughter in LA and one in OC. Of course they have to live in opposite directions!<\/p>\n<p>My job now is to pray for the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Albert says we are not naturally drawn to pray. That is true of me. In our culture of activities and productivity, prayer is seemingly a useless passive activity. But as a grandma I can do nothing for my kids but to pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God is so good to our family! My son and DIL, after experiencing the stillborn death of their firstborn last year, just gave birth to a healthy baby girl. They say only 5% of babies are born on their due date. She&#8217;s in that 5%, born on her due date of October 30. God graciously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}