{"id":153,"date":"2009-02-08T08:50:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T13:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenotic.net\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-02-08T08:51:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T13:51:36","slug":"hints-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/08\/hints-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Hints of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been an interesting weekend for me; for the first time since we’ve been married, I haven’t really seen Mika for about three days. Between her work schedule, going to see a wrestling match Friday evening at John Paul Jones Arena with Mike and Justin (awesome<\/em>) and going skiing at Massanutten <\/a>on Saturday, I won’t really get the chance to be with her until tonight.<\/p>\n

I know that 3 days doesn’t seem like a long time, but this is different for me. The first year that Mika and I started dating, I was part of a fellowship program called the Trinity Fellows Program<\/a> out of my church here in Charlottesville, Trinity Presbyterian<\/a>. Just about every hour of every week was scheduled and planned out, and I was living with a wonderful family out in Crozet, 25 miles outside of Charlottesville. Suffice to say, during that year I didn’t see Mika all that much. We would get an hour here and there at night before I drove back to Crozet, but I would sometimes go 4-5 days without really seeing her.<\/p>\n

And that was ok.<\/p>\n

I didn’t like it, but I simply looked forward to when I would get to see her. I still do, of course, but now that we’ve been married for a little more than four months, I’ve noticed a change in myself, a greater attachment. I mean, she’s my wife<\/em>. \u00a0Things just feel different<\/em>. \u00a0I see her almost every day now, but I feel like I need that. \u00a0From the moment we took our vows, I’ve never spent as much time with one person as I have with Mika, and I guess it becomes the norm. \u00a0It’s a great thing; I love it. \u00a0It just makes it that much harder when that person is gone.<\/p>\n

It’s a gorgeous day. \u00a0At 8:45 AM, it feels like it’s in the upper 50’s outside. \u00a0I didn’t get a chance to take advantage of the weather yesterday, so I’m hoping to today; get outside, work out, take some pictures, and enjoy these hints of spring.<\/p>\n

And tonight I’ll have something wonderful to come home to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been an interesting weekend for me; for the first time since we’ve been married, I haven’t really seen Mika for about three days. Between her work schedule, going to see a wrestling match Friday evening at John Paul Jones Arena with Mike and Justin (awesome) and going skiing at Massanutten on Saturday, I won’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[228,95,55],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-musings","tag-life","tag-living","tag-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}