{"id":8160,"date":"2025-05-26T13:39:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=8160"},"modified":"2025-05-26T13:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:39:03","slug":"memorial-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=8160","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy Memorial Day. We all know what the day is all about. When I was a kid, it seems that every male relative I had served. All my uncles, grandpa, dad, and just about any other man you knew. Nowadays, it seems the opposite is true. It seems more guys my age, didn&#8217;t serve. I think the baby boomer generation, those of us who just missed out getting drafted, didn&#8217;t join up. It wasn&#8217;t that we didn&#8217;t want to, it was just a shift in time when college was the thing to do rather than join the military. I have great admiration for those that did serve. Not an easy decision and to those that served in combat, well, that&#8217;s a whole other level of commitment. So, thank a veteran today and be proud of your Country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday we, (mostly Lori) started on Ty&#8217;s room. Around 3, we decided to run down the street to our local theater and see the new Mission Impossible movie. It was good, as they all are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a little rain yesterday but not much. It&#8217;s blue sky and sunny outside right now. The kids made it home safely from their epic trip. Their plane was delayed an hour out of LA, but all good. I think they&#8217;ll come up later this week. We need to get Jagger&#8217;s graduation announcements sent out. They&#8217;re going to need all the cash they can get, ha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m in the retirement mindset these days. Every decision I make, is geared towards that. That&#8217;s a shift for me as up until a few months or so ago, I never really considered retiring. To be fair, I&#8217;ll always have some side hustle going on, so retirement for us really means having Lori stop working. It&#8217;s like a new chapter in our lives, which is exciting and fun. Life is full of new chapters, graduating from high school or college, having kids, getting a new job, moving to a new place, whatever. Retiring is just another in a long list of new things in your life. Exciting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time to get moving. Have a great day and get ready for the last week of May. In about 90 days, it&#8217;ll be Labor Day and Fall will soon be here. Hard to believe. Then 90 days after that Christmas and the New Year and on and on. Time is precious, don&#8217;t waste it! God Bless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Memorial Day. We all know what the day is all about. When I was a kid, it seems that every male relative I had served. All my uncles, grandpa, dad, and just about any other man you knew. Nowadays, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=8160\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}