{"id":169,"date":"2007-08-01T14:31:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T18:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2013-12-02T15:19:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T20:19:56","slug":"one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/169","title":{"rendered":"One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1074\/976156995_099997efa6.jpg\" align=\"top\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll look at the timeline above this post, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll notice that today marks ONE YEAR waiting for Lainey. To be more exact, our adoption paperwork was logged into China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s adoption system on 8\/1\/06. So, today is our LID anniversary. Since we began this process in March \u00e2\u20ac\u212206, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been waiting for about 16 months. Not that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m counting.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, are you wondering what that picture is? Since we were LID, we began a paperchain to mark out wait. We add a link at the completion of each week. I added the purple link to signify our 1 year milestone! Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a picture of the whole chain, as it drapes our kitchen window.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1176\/977012482_a5a8737807.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"296\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll add a link on the date we receive our referral, too. The kids loved seeing what 52 weeks \/ one year looks like. Happy LID anniversary to us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll look at the timeline above this post, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll notice that today marks ONE YEAR waiting for Lainey. To be more exact, our adoption paperwork was logged into China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s adoption system on 8\/1\/06. So, today is our LID anniversary. Since we began this process in March \u00e2\u20ac\u212206, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been waiting for about 16 months. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}