{"id":2574,"date":"2017-06-14T04:29:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T04:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/family.manandyak.com\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2017-06-14T04:29:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T04:29:13","slug":"winter-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/family.manandyak.com\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been the wettest winter I can recall. \u00a0In fact, it has been the wettest winter anyone can ever recall that is under the age of 96. \u00a0Just non-stop rain for ages, and you’ll see in the pictures below that things are quite soggy around these parts.<\/p>\n

The good news is that I was so incredibly busy at work that I never had time to care or notice. \u00a0From the end of January until mid-April I was working around 65 hours per week. \u00a0Rachael essentially became a single parent and I spent two nights a week down in Eugene at my cousin Beverly’s home. \u00a0It was a long hard slog and both Josef and Rach were real champs. \u00a0As hard as it was, I was always greeted with big hugs and smiles when I came home and I sure did appreciate it after such long days!<\/p>\n

It was hard to be so absent from Josef’s life, and a jarring change from the last 4 years. \u00a0He seemed to grow in leaps and bounds. \u00a0One week he could barely draw a stick figure and the next he would be making elaborate monsters or robots with great detail. \u00a0He seems so long and lean compared to the little chubaloo that I used to tote around!<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, I didn’t have much chance to take any photos so the pickings are slim.