{"id":353,"date":"2007-01-03T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2007-01-03T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T20:51:09","slug":"happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/xmas06_6.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xmas06_6.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/xmas06_6-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chas asked me to make a nativity scene like the one on the table at our local church. He has played with it the past few weeks and I&#8217;ve rounded up the little figures for many evenings. I&#8217;ve found baby Jesus in the bedsheets, under the nightstand and in a shoe, among other places.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/xmas06_7.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xmas06_7.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/xmas06_7-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ford wanted a houseful of gems, &#8220;Gems, Everywhere!&#8221; he mentioned many times. Santa met him somewhere on the way to halfway. But he got a microscope, so the handfuls (or little felted bowlfuls) of miniatures seemed pretty magnificent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/xmas06_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xmas06_11.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/xmas06_11-thumb.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/chas_guitars.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chas_guitars.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/chas_guitars-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All Chas wanted were balls, which he was very pleased to recieve. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/xmas06_1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xmas06_1.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/xmas06_1-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our favorite Christmas book this year was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christmas-Noisy-Village-Picture-Puffins\/dp\/0140503447\">Christmastime in Noisy Village<\/a>, so I thought it was cute that, instead of skiiing on Christmas day (as the children did in the book), we instead skateboarded the rest of the day. I think it might become a new tradition, and the book is so wonderfully loaded with old family traditions that we continue today, anyway. have you read it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/xmas06_nightboarding.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xmas06_nightboarding.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/xmas06_nightboarding-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/xmas06_O.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xmas06_O.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/xmas06_O-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We skated into the night and until eleven. So, that&#8217;s <em>moonlight<\/em>. We don&#8217;t have streetlights on our rural road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/newyears06_01.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"newyears06_01.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/newyears06_01-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/newyears06_02.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"newyears06_02.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/newyears06_02-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel like that rocket in the picture above.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/newyears06_03.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"newyears06_03.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/newyears06_03-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chas asked me to make a nativity scene like the one on the table at our local church. He has played with it the past few weeks and I&#8217;ve rounded up the little figures for many evenings. I&#8217;ve found baby Jesus in the bedsheets, under the nightstand and in a shoe, among other places. Ford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}