{"id":6340,"date":"2011-01-27T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2011-01-27T06:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T12:34:00","slug":"thankful-thursday-friends-and-fellow-transplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110127-6340.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: Friends and Fellow-Transplants"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t plan to find myself in Columbus, Nebraska. I interviewed for a job in Omaha–and got offered a job here.<\/p>\n

A head-hunter matched my sister Anna to a job here. <\/p>\n

Few of us really CHOSE to find ourselves in the east central part of Nebraska, in the greater Columbus area.<\/p>\n

But here we are. And for that I am thankful.<\/p>\n

\"Thankful<\/a><\/p>\n

This week, I’m thankful…<\/b><\/p>\n

…for baking with my sister<\/b>, her reading aloud from The Pioneer Woman Cooks<\/i> while I dropped muffin batter into tins and rolled warm muffins in butter and sugar<\/p>\n

…for Pampered Chef parties<\/b> where Anna and Ruth and I bite our tongues while the rep tries to convince me<\/i> that I should be a rep myself (If someone has just told you that she teaches cooking on a college level and that she regularly advises her students that they don’t need all the gadgets sold by companies like Pampered Chef…you probably SHOULDN’T suggest that if she’d just try your products she might just learn that “they’re not a want, they’re a need.”)<\/p>\n

…for large hunks of beef<\/b> and friends who will cut them into steaks for you (and laugh at you for rendering your own tallow from the trimmed fat.)<\/p>\n

…for great reminders<\/b> at Bible study that all work can be sanctified work (Thanks, Beth) and that it’s easy to lose focus at work but putting up reminders for yourself can help (Thanks, Teresa).<\/p>\n

…for upcoming parties<\/b>–hanging out this weekend with another who’ll be around town, a Valentines Party next month, drinks at my house in March (featuring SimplyThick!)<\/p>\n

…for the Providence of God<\/b> that brought me–and these–into this dinky little town at such a time as this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t plan to find myself in Columbus, Nebraska. I interviewed for a job in Omaha–and got offered a job here. A head-hunter matched my sister Anna to a job here. Few of us really CHOSE to find ourselves in the east central part of Nebraska, in the greater Columbus area. But here we are. … Read more Thankful Thursday: Friends and Fellow-Transplants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}