{"id":766,"date":"2011-12-22T22:05:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T05:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2011-12-23T12:59:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T19:59:37","slug":"the-best-birthday-present-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/the-best-birthday-present-ever","title":{"rendered":"The Best Birthday Present Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Blog Readers,<\/p>\n<p>Some of you know that Rebecca has a Christmas-time birthday.\u00c2\u00a0Well, this year is no different, in that we are rejoicing in God&#8217;s goodness in her life.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is an extra special birthday present that the Lord has given her this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2138.jpg\"><\/a>Actually, it&#8217;s a birthday present for Rebecca <em>and <\/em>Steven.\u00c2\u00a0And, a Christmas present too, for that matter. And, a New Years present. And a Valentine&#8217;s Day present . . . and a Resurrection Day present . . . and a . . . well, you get the picture.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right folks, God has blessed us with the gift of a precious new baby. : )<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2050.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-771\" title=\"IMG_2050\" src=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2050-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2050-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2050-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2050.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We&#8217;ve been keeping our baby under wraps for a while, watching and waiting as we seek the Lord to sustain <a title=\"(singular &quot;they&quot;)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Singular_they#Examples_of_generic_they\">them<\/a>. Many of you have known about Baby Praise (their in-the-womb-name) and have been both praising God for them, and praying to the Lord on behalf of our whole little family.<\/p>\n<p>Our Lord has really blessed this pregnancy. Baby Praise is now in the 2nd trimester. Everything seems to be going very well, praise God!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve made it through the morning sickness stage (WAY more sick than ever before!!) where Steven banned Rebecca from the kitchen, and literally did all the cooking for several months. There is just a tad bit of <del>morning <\/del>all-day-sickness still hanging on, but Rebecca is getting a bit better week by week.<\/p>\n<p>We are enjoying each day with our sweet baby\u00e2\u20ac\u201dtalking to them, praying with them, singing with them\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhat a privilege.<\/p>\n<p>We praise God for our new baby, and ask you to join us in thanking Him too! Every day is a gift from Him.<\/p>\n<p>Love in Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Steven, Rebecca, and Baby Praise<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2039.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2039.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-774\" title=\"IMG_2039\" src=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2039-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2039-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2039-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2039.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Blog Readers, Some of you know that Rebecca has a Christmas-time birthday.\u00c2\u00a0Well, this year is no different, in that we are rejoicing in God&#8217;s goodness in her life. However, there is an extra special birthday present that the Lord has given her this year. Actually, it&#8217;s a birthday present for Rebecca and Steven.\u00c2\u00a0And, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby","category-events","category-marriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}