{"id":124,"date":"2009-06-08T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/08\/10-ways-to-make-tonight-magical\/"},"modified":"2009-06-08T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T00:30:00","slug":"10-ways-to-make-tonight-magical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/08\/10-ways-to-make-tonight-magical\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Make Tonight Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(204,0,102);\">Hello magical you!&nbsp; I&#8217;m up late and ready to climb into bed so I&#8217;m (mostly) stealing today&#8217;s list from June of 7 years ago, complete with assignments for the week.&nbsp; This time of year it&#8217;s fun to do nighttime magic so it&#8217;s a nocturnal theme this time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:xx-large;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i><font face=\"Garamond\">10 Ways to Make Tonight Magical&#8230;&#8230;.<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/font><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><font face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i><font face=\"Garamond\"><font color=\"#3366ff\">1.&nbsp; Put glow-in-the-dark bracelets in balloons and blow them up, then play volleyball with them in the dark.<\/font><\/font><\/i><\/b> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i><font face=\"Garamond\"><font color=\"#ff0080\">2.&nbsp; Set up a tent in the back yard and sleep under the stars.<\/font><\/font><\/i><\/b> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i><font face=\"Garamond\"><font color=\"#ff6600\">3.&nbsp; Go plant a packet of seeds in the moonlight &#8212; folklore said it was good luck!<\/font><\/font><\/i><\/b><\/font><span style=\"color:rgb(153,51,204);\"><font face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(153,51,204);\"><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i><font face=\"Garamond\">4.&nbsp; Have a slumber party in the living room or guest room.<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/font><\/span><font face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,51);\"><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i><font face=\"Garamond\">5.&nbsp; Put old baby videos in the VCR at bedtime and fall asleep cuddling and watching them.<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/font><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,102,255);\"><font face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,102,255);\"><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i><font face=\"Garamond\">6.&nbsp; String Christmas lights in their bedrooms.<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/font><\/span><font face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i><font face=\"Garamond\"><font color=\"#8000ff\">7.&nbsp; Get glow-in-the-dark paint and help the kids write secret messages &amp; pictures on the ceiling.<\/font><\/font><\/i><\/b><\/font><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,255);\"><font face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,255);\"><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i><font face=\"Garamond\">8.&nbsp; Start reading a few chapters a night from your favorite childhood book at bedtime.<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/font><\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,0);\"><font face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,0);\"><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i><font face=\"Garamond\">9.&nbsp;&nbsp; Dance with them (and your sweetie) on the lawn after dark.<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/font><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><font face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\"><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i><font face=\"Garamond\">10. Go on a late-night trip to the donut shop.<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/font><\/span><\/span><font face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i><font face=\"Garamond\"><font color=\"#ff0080\"><font size=\"+1\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/i><\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><font face=\"Tahoma\"><font size=\"+1\">And now my dears, I&#8217;m off to read <u>Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash<\/u> with a little girl, make some goodies, and go for a rainy day walk.<\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><font face=\"Tahoma\"><font size=\"+1\">This week your assignment is to eat chocolate, do an anonymous nice thing for somebody, and take at least a minute every day to make the day memorable.<\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><font face=\"Tahoma\"><font size=\"+1\">Or just have fun.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><font face=\"Tahoma\"><font size=\"+1\">Peace,<\/font><\/font><\/font><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><font face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font face=\"Tempus Sans ITC\">Alicia<\/font><\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello magical you!&nbsp; I&#8217;m up late and ready to climb into bed so I&#8217;m (mostly) stealing today&#8217;s list from June of 7 years ago, complete with assignments for the week.&nbsp; This time of year it&#8217;s fun to do nighttime magic so it&#8217;s a nocturnal theme this time&#8230; 10 Ways to Make Tonight Magical&#8230;&#8230;. 1.&nbsp; Put&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[114,155,253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}