{"id":80,"date":"2017-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforiainh\/2017\/05\/30\/home-and-who-to-thank-first\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T00:00:00","slug":"home-and-who-to-thank-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/2017\/05\/30\/home-and-who-to-thank-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Home and Who to Thank First?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iain and I arrived home last Saturday afternoon to a beautifully redecorated house thanks to our wonderful friend Doug Ryder. &nbsp;(Just do not tell him I said that because he can be a right tyrant). &nbsp;The house itself sparkled, the fridge and pantry stocked and the garden was neat and tidy thanks to a crew led by Sarah and Lisa. &nbsp;Thank you to my mum, Sonia, the Pendergasts, the Mitelhaus&#8217;, the Berk family, the Ropp-Maringa family, the Aiduns, the Young-Schwemms, the Abrahams, the Dowlings, the Heiser-Diddams family, and the Guild-Douhtit family. &nbsp;Thank you to those who offered to help and for those care packages we received. If I have forgotten to mention anyone I am sorry. &nbsp; It was such a pleasure to walk into a house and have a cup of tea with milk and just enjoy the house and garden. &nbsp;Ok, after unpacking the jam-packed Jeep which fortunately made it back even though the newly fixed air conditioner seemed to stop working half-way through Missouri (fortunately the temperature dropped significantly into Kansas).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/231\/images\/home%201.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/231\/images\/home%202.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is great to be home. &nbsp;Iain seemed to get another lease of life as we crossed the Kansas-Colorado border and I have barely seen him since we arrived. &nbsp;I went back to work and it was lovely to see everyone and feel somewhat normal again. My dad is in a lovely assisted living in Boulder so now I just have to relieve the Prakash family in Los Gatos from the little monkey that has been living there for the last few months. &nbsp;I am sure after all this time with a boy on their hands they will breath a sigh of relief as they no longer have to &#8220;persuade&#8221; him to do his homework. Truly, I am very grateful that they provided such a loving place for Simon during this pretty awful time for his brother. &nbsp;Thank you again for reading and your messages of support which Iain and I still go back to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iain and I arrived home last Saturday afternoon to a beautifully redecorated house thanks to our wonderful friend Doug Ryder. &nbsp;(Just do not tell him I said that because he can be a right tyrant). &nbsp;The house itself sparkled, the fridge and pantry stocked and the garden was neat and tidy thanks to a crew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}