{"id":2989,"date":"2015-12-31T16:24:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T22:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2016-01-01T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:00:27","slug":"2015-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2989","title":{"rendered":"2015 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the closing of 2015, I can&#8217;t help but look back at the highs and lows the year has brought to our home and hearts.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the list of blessings is our son&#8217;s success in his life.\u00a0 Though his job is often stressful, he seems overall happy and healthy.\u00a0 We are tremendously proud.<\/p>\n<p>Our most difficult struggle came with DH Bob&#8217;s cancer diagnosis.\u00a0 After two surgeries and multiple treatments, he continues to work at regaining his health.\u00a0 He improves a bit each day and I pray for continued betterment.\u00a0 Other than minor issues, my own health has been uneventful.<\/p>\n<p>This year marked our most successful in gardening.\u00a0 Although we had enough rain to rot most area gardens, our sandy hill garden thrived.\u00a0 I am so thankful our shelves and freezer are full of the bounty.<\/p>\n<p>The quilts I&#8217;ve finished this year include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bright Hopes baby quilt gifted to Braxton<\/li>\n<li>Scrappy Split-16 queen+ quilt for my bed<\/li>\n<li>Wonky Stars sofa quilt for the foot of my bed<\/li>\n<li>Batik Winding Ways sofa quilt gifted to Hearmon and Theresa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I continue hand stitching on String Pyramids quilt nearly every day.\u00a0 The twin+ top is almost complete.\u00a0 There are also some unfinished quilt projects in the stack but I continue to slowly work on them too.<\/p>\n<p>This is also a year that saw me sewing.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve made 2 PJ pants for Jacob and 5 for Bob.\u00a0 Bob also got a new hooded robe.\u00a0 Jake has added 5 new shirts to his office wardrobe while my clothing stash increased with 2 long-sleeved tees and a few pairs of shorts.\u00a0 Yesterday, I finished a stuffed dog bed for Lolita (filled with fabric snips, crumbs and threads.\u00a0 The cover is removable for washing.\u00a0 She LOVES it!<\/p>\n<p>Overall, our year was full of blessings and as we ring in the new year, I wish you good health, success, laughter and love.<\/p>\n<p>Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the closing of 2015, I can&#8217;t help but look back at the highs and lows the year has brought to our home and hearts. At the top of the list of blessings is our son&#8217;s success in his life.\u00a0 Though his job is often stressful, he seems overall happy and healthy.\u00a0 We are tremendously<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2989\"> (continue reading&#8230;)  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,11,14,10,39,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}