{"id":642,"date":"2012-01-28T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T04:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chloewatts.com\/wordpress\/?p=642"},"modified":"2012-01-28T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T04:10:16","slug":"happy-13th-birthday-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloewatts.com\/wordpress\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Happy 13th Birthday Girl!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we celebrated Chloe&#8217;s 13th birthday.  It&#8217;s actually tomorrow, the 29th, but she&#8217;ll have another celebration with her dads&#8217; family in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a celebration, even though it is very hard on Chloe.  We feel we HAVE to honor her birthdays because we love her so much.  It&#8217;s hard on Chloe since she still can&#8217;t fully participate in the celebration.  She can&#8217;t eat her birthday cake!  Imagine the heartbreak of having someone present you with a cake and knowing you can&#8217;t swallow even a small bite of it.<\/p>\n<p>We made it through some good points and some rough points last night.  Chloe received a monstrous gift box from her Aunt Sandy, and cousins Regina and Jeremy from just north of the US Boarder.  What fun that was.  There were a bazillion little presents, all wrapped specially for her, with a dollar hunt that lasted a very long time.  That was a laughfest for all of us.  Uncle Kevin and Aunt Laura helped with the evening and Colin provided the music with his guitar and voice.   <\/p>\n<p>BTW&#8230; Speaking of Colin.  You should have heard his performance of &#8220;Yesterdays&#8221; during the talent show at his High School.  He&#8217;s the fifth Beatle and is sounding better every day.<\/p>\n<p>Today we took Chloe to the mall to get some new school and knock around shoes.  It was a tough time of it as crowds really drain her.  I think the need for her suction machine in public has always been a huge embarrassment, even though she tolerates it much better to late.<\/p>\n<p>Dana is hanging in there and trying to make a better life for everyone.  She still takes on more than anyone I know could or would step up to the plate for.  Dollars are very tight right now but I&#8217;ve started a new job with promise.  I&#8217;m a new Aflac agent.  It&#8217;s a supplemental insurance that I sure wish we had in place before all of this started.  There would be no money challenges if a couple small plans had been set up.  Please let me know if I can talk to you or your boss about this.  It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ll not feel comfortable about if I don&#8217;t let family and friends see what it might do for them.  &#8216;If only&#8217; are two of the biggest words in our language.<\/p>\n<p>So, in closing&#8230;(boy is that an over used closing&#8230;)&#8230; I thank all of you for the warm wishes, prayers, and help in whatever way you participate.  It&#8217;s all noticed, loved and we are honored to have you in our corner and lives.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<br \/>\nRon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we celebrated Chloe&#8217;s 13th birthday. It&#8217;s actually tomorrow, the 29th, but she&#8217;ll have another celebration with her dads&#8217; family in the afternoon. It&#8217;s a celebration, even though it is very hard on Chloe. We feel we HAVE to honor her birthdays because we love her so much. 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