{"id":31,"date":"2005-05-29T17:26:25","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T01:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/?p=31"},"modified":"2005-06-15T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T19:27:47","slug":"baptism-birthday-the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Your 1st Baptism Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Beautiful &#8211;<br \/>\nToday you were baptized with Jimmiqua at Spiritus Christi Church.  You are known as &#8220;The Gospel Choir Baby.&#8221; The Gospel choir sang 5 of my favorite songs today in your honor.  It was a wonderful service&#8230; touching, beautiful, personal, and so special.  Father Jim and I discussed the meaning of the word &#8220;sacrament.&#8221;  We decided that is a special event in which we focus on and experience God&#8217;s love in an explicit way.  Today definitely fit that description &#8211; such a special day in which we could feel God&#8217;s love for you&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img src='http:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/wp-photos\/PeanutBaptism_01.jpg' alt='MayaBaptism' \/> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We had a party for you and Jimmiqua after the service at our house at 16 Regent Street.  Some of those in attendance were Auntie Amy, Uncle Matt, Grandma &#038; Grandpa Tatro, Jim &#038; Judi, Susan and her Mom Sally, Carleen, Nanna Sherry, Tracy, Caronline &#038; Drew, Michael, Blythe &#038; Orion, Jan &#038; Justin (friends from  my work), Nancy, MJ, Raffaella, David Hursh, Jim White, Jenel, Karen Donahoe, Anne Falvo, Mike, Melissa &#038; Casy, Shauna &#038; Devon, Jimmiqua, Gardenia, Josh, Justice, De De, Emma (Jimmiqua&#8217;s Grandma),  Mort &#038; Diane, Laura &#038; Alan, Bill &#038; Deb, and  Tracy Ball.  Quite a crowd, huh?<\/p>\n<p>After the party, Judi, Nanna Sherry and I opened and recorded your presents.  You received many very nice gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Here is another picture from the day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img src='http:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/wp-photos\/FamilyPictSmall.jpg' alt='Family Pict' \/> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bottom line, today God formally called you His.  He will never let you go!  What a wonderful thing to be a Child of God.  You are Beautiful little girl who is already a LIGHT in this world! Thank you for all the joy you bring!  I am honored to be your Mom.<\/p>\n<p>I love you,<br \/>\n*Mommy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Beautiful &#8211; Today you were baptized with Jimmiqua at Spiritus Christi Church. You are known as &#8220;The Gospel Choir Baby.&#8221; The Gospel choir sang 5 of my favorite songs today in your honor. It was a wonderful service&#8230; touching, beautiful, personal, and so special. Father Jim and I discussed the meaning of the word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}