{"id":1319,"date":"2010-12-23T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T16:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2010-12-23T16:19:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T16:19:49","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#008000;\">And a Happy Thursday and Friday!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#008000;\">We started our family holidays on Tuesday and have been having a magical week.\u00a0 We celebrate over a few days here in order to spend time with extended family and still have our own time together.\u00a0 We have our family celebration, supper and presents on the winter solstice, then Christmas Eve with Great Grandma Lueck and many relatives, and Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa.\u00a0 More snow is coming so that may derail some plans, but we&#8217;ll figure it all out!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><strong>I want to wish you all the happiest of holidays.\u00a0 Thank you for keeping me company on this magical adventure, and thank you for being the delightful parents you are. <\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Lastly, thank you to Samantha, Sarah and Kaitryna for the wonderful ornaments!\u00a0 I love the stories that have come with some of them and every one is so treasured already. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">We&#8217;ve also been busy making ornaments, mostly with things from the recycling bin.\u00a0 The kids have had fun and we have a very eclectic Christmas tree.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Here&#8217;s the delightful ornaments we&#8217;ve received (and some of ours )&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5281\/5285196889_1c4428cb6e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">I also solved the mystery of my missing ornaments.\u00a0 They are indeed gone for good.\u00a0 Last summer I tossed out lots of things that were ruined by water damage in our basement and I piled the trash bags in a large cardboard box.\u00a0 Our giant old Christmas tree box was in the basement with our winter things in it (ornaments plus our winter snowsuits) and that entire box is missing.\u00a0 I realize now that I accidentally piled the trash bags in our winter box along with the empty box, and hauled them both out to the dumpster.\u00a0 I am sad to know that so many years of memories are missing, but I know that <strong>the important things in life are not things<\/strong> and I am so happy for the ornaments some of you have sent to start our new collection!\u00a0 Thank you again!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Merry Christmas!<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5281\/5284318727_1e7f6dd182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And a Happy Thursday and Friday!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09 We started our family holidays on Tuesday and have been having a magical week.\u00a0 We celebrate over a few days here in order to spend time with extended family and still have our own time together.\u00a0 We have our family celebration, supper and presents on the winter solstice,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319"}],"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=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}