{"id":1285,"date":"2009-01-02T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2009-01-02T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T11:00:29","slug":"the-christmas-post-i-never-got-the-chance-to-write-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/2009\/01\/02\/the-christmas-post-i-never-got-the-chance-to-write-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas post I never got the chance to write – Pt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I am a week or so late. Whateva. Christmas is so awesome I can do this whenever right?\u00a0 Anyway, I’ve had the pictures up in my Flickr<\/a> since day after, so that has to count for something, right?<\/p>\n

So…\u00a0 Christmas Eve this year was just really laid back. Gramma & Nani came down to visit.\u00a0 Worked out really well, because I had a doctor appointment.\u00a0 Yes, on Christmas Eve.\u00a0 It was actually follow up from my surgery a few weeks past.\u00a0 Boils down to, the foot is doing well. A bit of soreness stil, but DUH! I had a chunk of bone cut off!\u00a0 So it’s all good now.\u00a0 WOOHOO!\u00a0 But, while I was at the Podiatrist’s office, Gramma & Nani were home with the kids, gettin’ their Gingerbread House on.<\/p>\n

\"GeekBoy,<\/a><\/p>\n

They actually made a cute little house.\u00a0 I caught this photo of it just before the kids started to devour it.<\/p>\n

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So then, we made butter cookies.<\/p>\n

\"TheKytiKat<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, so Hawt, I know. Totally sporting the Crazy Food Lady bun, all I was missing was the hair net to go with it.\u00a0 But we had fun.\u00a0 And, we even found a game on the Wii that Gramma can play! Tetris Party.\u00a0 She had a blast.<\/p>\n

\"Gramma<\/a><\/p>\n

We totally remembered the Reason for the season.\u00a0 DH read the Christmas Story before we put the kids to bed.<\/p>\n

\"Under<\/a><\/p>\n

I was having so much fun with the camera, the kids asked for a turn, so I let them.\u00a0 Yup. I let my 3 year old use a good camera.\u00a0 His dad’s camera because there is no way in hell I’m going to give him mine<\/span> mine is just too big for his little hands.\u00a0 So what does a three year old find worthy of documenting? One of our favorite TV specials of course.<\/p>\n

\"Small<\/a><\/p>\n

“Small One, Small One, Small One for sale!”<\/p>\n

Soon after the flix, we managed to get all three kids settled for the night.\u00a0 They have a sleep-over in one of thier rooms, for three reasons. One, it’s fun, and we don’t let them do it often.\u00a0 Two, with family visiting, they needed places to sleep, so it worked out great.\u00a0 And Three, we put the stockings (filled with little treats and small Dollar Store type toys) at the foot of each child after they are asleep. That way, when they wake up early in the AM, they can open the stockings and play with each other while Mom & Dad sleep in till 7am. No one comes out of the room before 7AM.\u00a0 Makes for a much more relaxed day when Mom & Dad get enough sleep.<\/p>\n

But once we were sure that the kidlets were fast asleep, out came the gifts. And I took the traditional Tree photo, but with a new twist.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Got the idea from someone online, and sorry whoever you were, but I forgot to bookmark it! The other person had taken a photo from what looked like the top of the stairs, looking over the rail into the living room at the aftermath of Christmas.\u00a0 I don’t have stairs, but I have a big cut out in the wall between the kitchen and living room.\u00a0 A tripod on top of the kitchen cabinets gave me just the right perspective for this shot. and it was fun!<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for part two: Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I am a week or so late. Whateva. Christmas is so awesome I can do this whenever right?\u00a0 Anyway, I’ve had the pictures up in my Flickr since day …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family_life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}