{"id":1911,"date":"2010-12-03T08:50:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2010-12-03T08:50:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T12:50:16","slug":"bring-on-the-christmas-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"Bring on the Christmas traditions&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-03a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1912\" title=\"2010-12-03a\" src=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-03a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-03a.jpg 550w, https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-03a-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So this month&#8230;I think I might be talking a lot about our Christmas traditions&#8230;I&#8217;ve done it a bit in the past..but it might be more this year..so be warned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-03b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1913\" title=\"2010-12-03b\" src=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-03b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-03b.jpg 550w, https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-03b-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of our first traditions is getting out our advent calendar.\u00a0 My mom gave this to us years ago and I love it because it is reusable.\u00a0 I also love it because it challenges me to get gifts that are small enough that they fit into these little tiny drawers..which usually means candy or small amounts of change&#8230;which is a good thing..because to me the advent calendar is about little tiny things&#8230;..(okay..the first day I cheated&#8230;I put a little note in the drawer that said to look somewhere else..I got snowman candy bars and they wouldn&#8217;t fit in the drawer&#8230;but I couldn&#8217;t resist..they were delicious&#8230;white and dark chocolate with pepermint pieces!!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-3c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1914\" title=\"2010-12-3c\" src=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-3c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-3c.jpg 550w, https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-3c-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 85vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We try to do the advent calendar first thing in the morning&#8230;when things aren&#8217;t too crazy&#8230;but River doesn&#8217;t always cooperate.\u00a0 She likes to sleep in..and Tuesday and Quinn have to be off early for school.\u00a0 So, we will either do it first thing in the morning&#8230;or right after school.\u00a0 If we end up not doing it in the morning, it drives River crazy.\u00a0 She spends the whole day asking why Tuesday and Quinn aren&#8217;t home from school yet!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-03d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1915\" title=\"2010-12-03d\" src=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-03d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-03d.jpg 550w, https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-03d-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this month&#8230;I think I might be talking a lot about our Christmas traditions&#8230;I&#8217;ve done it a bit in the past..but it might be more this year..so be warned. One of our first traditions is getting out our advent calendar.\u00a0 My mom gave this to us years ago and I love it because it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/?p=1911\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bring on the Christmas traditions&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,18,4,24,9,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-family","category-family-fun","category-quinn","category-river","category-traditions","category-tuesday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p172S4-uP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}