{"id":491,"date":"2012-12-25T22:49:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T21:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secham.org\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2013-07-27T21:17:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T19:17:53","slug":"christma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secham.org\/blog\/christma\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noel, Frohe Weihnachten, Vrolijk Kerstfeest !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you are also enjoying Christmas time. I really love that period of the year and this Christmas was really particular because it was Ketsia&rsquo;s first Christmas. We celebrated it just the 3 of us as Ketsia&rsquo;s condition was not ideal for travelling to France. We spent the last week at the hospital but were allowed to go home a the feeding tube in order to spend Christmas at home. Tomorrow we are heading back to the hospital and on Thursday (27th) Ketsia will have a catheter balloon intervention .<br \/>\nIt is\/was quite a tough time for us: spending a week at the hospital and then waiting for a new intervention&#8230; But still this Christmas was wonderful. I do miss France, my family and the really great time with my cousins, but I&rsquo;m so thankful for Ketsia and for the fact that we could spend Christmas as a family.<br \/>\nI realized the way we have done so far, all the grace and joy we received.<br \/>\nAs a proper Christmas celebration we had a lot of presents and also a really good meal as you can see on the pictures. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[noel]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secham.org\/Galleries\/noel_blog\/noel_blog-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-453\" title=\"Merry Christmas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.secham.org\/Galleries\/noel_blog\/noel_blog-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But first of all we also took the time to think about the true meaning of Christmas, namely the fact that once upon a time Jesus came to earth. The angel said \u00ab\u00a0Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord\u00a0\u00bb (Lucas 2, The Bible).<br \/>\nThis is it \u00ab\u00a0Fear not and rejoice\u00a0\u00bb! Although all our troubles, I know I can have \u00ab\u00a0no fear\u00a0\u00bb and rejoice.<br \/>\nI wish you all the same. Merry Christmas!  <\/p>\n<p>And as a small bonus, a small video that I made for Christmas Eve<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/56238063\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/56238063\">Ho holy night at the farm<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user11390689\">sam rakoto<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[noel]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secham.org\/Galleries\/noel_blog\/noel_blog-2.jpg\" ><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[noel]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secham.org\/Galleries\/noel_blog\/noel_blog-3.jpg\" ><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"lightbox[noel]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secham.org\/Galleries\/noel_blog\/noel_blog-4.jpg\" ><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[noel]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secham.org\/Galleries\/noel_blog\/noel_blog-5.jpg\" ><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"lightbox[noel]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secham.org\/Galleries\/noel_blog\/noel_blog-6.jpg\" ><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[noel]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secham.org\/Galleries\/noel_blog\/noel_blog-7.jpg\" ><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"lightbox[noel]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secham.org\/Galleries\/noel_blog\/noel_blog-8.jpg\" ><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[noel]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secham.org\/Galleries\/noel_blog\/noel_blog-9.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you are also enjoying Christmas time. I really love that period of the year and this Christmas was really particular because it was Ketsia&rsquo;s first Christmas. We celebrated it just the 3 of us as Ketsia&rsquo;s condition was not ideal for travelling to France. We spent the last week at the hospital but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/secham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/secham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}