{"id":6278,"date":"2018-01-05T23:13:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T06:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/?p=6278"},"modified":"2018-01-05T23:13:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T06:13:39","slug":"new-year-wishes-and-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/new-year-wishes-and-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year Wishes and Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey team, here we are in another year together, how awesome is that? <\/p>\n<p>As you can tell, Mel&#8217;s Desk has been pretty much in mothballs since I became a supervisor three years ago. I miss it so much but it&#8217;s been smarter to let it go while I&#8217;ve tackled the steepest learning curve of my career. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done any updates, I haven&#8217;t checked comments, I haven&#8217;t answered questions&#8230;but more than once over the past couple of months, totally out of the blue, I&#8217;ve been blessed to hear from friends and readers that Mel&#8217;s Desk is still serving as a resource and reference even in its cobwebby state. I am overwhelmed with gratitude that this is the case and I appreciate each of you who checks in from time to time and looks up a post or a pattern. <\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, I feel that I am approaching a cruising altitude again at work and I am hoping to take steps back into blogging over the spring and summer. I can&#8217;t wait to share my storytime experiences again and to hear what you&#8217;ve been thinking and learning over the last little while. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime:<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_6279\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6279\" src=\"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3420-789x1024.jpg\" alt=\"[image of a light blue card with black lettering reading &quot;here&#039;s to many wonderful moments in 2018&quot; above two banners of triangular pennants cut out of colored felt]\" width=\"640\" height=\"830\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3420-789x1024.jpg 789w, http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3420-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3420.jpg 997w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[image of a light blue card with black lettering reading &#8220;here&#8217;s to many wonderful moments in 2018&#8221; above two banners of triangular pennants cut out of colored felt]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey team, here we are in another year together, how awesome is that? As you can tell, Mel&#8217;s Desk has been pretty much in mothballs since I became a supervisor three years ago. I miss it so much but it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/new-year-wishes-and-plans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2LHEP-1Dg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6280,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions\/6280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}