{"id":100,"date":"2010-11-21T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/passportsnothallpasses.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/21\/awww-sweet-vacation\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T09:12:07","slug":"awww-sweet-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/passportsnothallpasses.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/21\/awww-sweet-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Awww&#8230; Sweet Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We moved to Amsterdam August 5, 2010. Scott traveled back and forth to the USA for one week on and one week off until mid-October. He then returned for just over four weeks. I stayed in Amsterdam, well, all over Europe considering my work, and did my best to hold down the fort. It made me truly appreciate what single mothers do. I have been so lucky to have a husband who was involved with the kids to such a great extent. His absence confirmed what I already knew, which was it would be extremely difficult to do it all by myself.<\/p>\n<p>We made it. It was tough. Tougher than I expected. But we made it.<\/p>\n<p>He returned, and five days later, Scott and I went on a four day vacation to Venice, Italy. It was fantastic. We were able to experience high tide. We were able to eat, drink, and sleep. We were able to simply hang out with no &#8220;to-do&#8221; lists hanging over our heads. It was much needed.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a short video of our holiday together. I look forward to returning to Italy!<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"vp150luN\" class=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"240\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.animoto.com\/swf\/w.swf?w=swf\/vp1&amp;e=1290368758&amp;f=50luNYaXFcKGPQHx48A60g&amp;d=81&amp;m=a&amp;r=w&amp;i=m&amp;options=\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We moved to Amsterdam August 5, 2010. Scott traveled back and forth to the USA for one week on and one week off until mid-October. He then returned for just over four weeks. I stayed in Amsterdam, well, all over Europe considering my work, and did my best to hold down the fort. 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