{"id":1244,"date":"2010-11-30T17:13:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2010-11-30T17:13:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T17:13:13","slug":"10-ways-to-make-today-magical-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-74\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Make Today Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello magical you!\u00a0 So sorry for being a day late (and a dollar short?).\u00a0 We went on an impromptu mini-trip to visit Grandma and Grandpa and help put up their tree on Sunday, and while I could have sneaked off to post a list I was too busy swimming and playing.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving (for those who do Thanksgiving) and that the winter storms are missing you.
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Enough yapping, though.\u00a0 On with some magical suggestions for the week…<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Serve snowmen for supper. <\/span> Make some mashed potatoes and scoop out three mounds per plate, stacked flat like a snowman lying down.\u00a0 (Mash in some butter beans if you want to up the protein.)<\/em> Put out all sorts of veggie props to decorate the snowman — steamed carrots for limbs, peas for eyes and buttons, black olive slices and so on.\u00a0 Try some steamed broccoli trees for background too!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Make a wreath for the door together. <\/span> It can be made of anything — grapevine wreaths decorated with ornaments and ribbon, pine boughs wired in a circle with a big bow, or simple colored paper hand prints.\u00a0 Do it together and hang it proudly.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Got snow?\u00a0 Bring some pans inside and spray paint it.<\/span> When it’s too melted or colored up, dump it and get new!\u00a0 No snow?\u00a0 Try crushed ice!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0 Decorate something silly for the holidays. <\/span>Hang ornaments on the chandelier, stick bows all over the refrigerator, or hang garland in the car.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Take time off with each child to give each other manicures or pedicures. <\/span> Boys too, if they like!\u00a0 My Jack is secure enough with his 7 year-old manliness to have painted toes quite often.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Dress in a holiday theme. <\/span> Put everybody in red and green or silver and blue, add curling ribbon to hair, don jingle bells and so on.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 Make jeweled princess bracelets.<\/span> Crafts by Amanda<\/a> shows you how to use cardboard tubes, felt, craft glue and some baubles in this child-friendly craft.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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8. <\/strong><\/span>Leave silly notes in hiding places all over the house.<\/span> It may take months for somebody to stumble on all of them, but it’s a wonderful way to break up an ordinary day to suddenly stumble on a note that says “Mama loves you” or “Kisses!\u00a0 You must come give your grandma 18 kisses immediately upon finding this!”. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 Assemble a feast for the birds and beasties outside, and leave it where you can watch them nibble. <\/span>Ears of dried corn, peanuts in the shell, berries, seeds and sliced fruit are all favorites.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

10. Learn a song together and videotape yourselves singing it (as flamboyantly as possible!). <\/span>Send the clip to loved ones and spread some smiles.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And with that, chickadees, I’m off to do the not-so-magical task of cleaning the living room and washing 85 loads of laundry.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n


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Hello magical you!\u00a0 So sorry for being a day late (and a dollar short?).\u00a0 We went on an impromptu mini-trip to visit Grandma and Grandpa and help put up their tree on Sunday, and while I could have sneaked off to post a list I was too busy swimming and playing.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 I hope you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244"}],"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=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}