{"id":122,"date":"2010-12-21T14:33:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=122"},"modified":"2010-12-21T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:33:31","slug":"christmas-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2010\/12\/21\/christmas-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so it&#8217;s officially the week of Christmas and it&#8217;s unlikely Xanga will see much traffic for a few days. &nbsp;So I thought I&#8217;d make sure I got at least one post for this week done. &nbsp;Maybe I&#8217;ll get another one in, but we shall see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This morning, the twins and I made cut-out sugar cookies together. &nbsp;I wasn&#8217;t sure it would go so well, but they did a surprisingly good job. &nbsp;Alex was totally into the making of the dough (don&#8217;t worry&#8230;I did that part myself). &nbsp;And then I rolled it out so we could cut the shapes out. &nbsp;They thought that was so much fun. &nbsp;We had to take turns (Erin kept track for me): Alex, Erin, Mommy, Alex, Erin, Mommy. &nbsp;I made sure I got a turn so at least some of the cookies turned out right! &nbsp;And then our snack was one of our freshly baked cookies. &nbsp;Good times!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m brave enough to let them &#8220;help&#8221; with the icing, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We have new neighbors who moved in the first weekend of December. &nbsp;I still haven&#8217;t been over to greet them. &nbsp;I must do that soon. &nbsp;It&#8217;s annoying me that I haven&#8217;t done it yet&#8230;but maybe I can take them some cookies. &nbsp;The ones I cut out, of course!<\/p>\n<p>Alex and Erin are quite the little Yin\/Yang pair. &nbsp;It&#8217;s been very funny to watch them this week. &nbsp;Erin is my &#8216;destroyer,&#8217; meaning that disarray tends to follow in her wake. &nbsp;Alex, on the other hand, tends to need his little world in order. &nbsp;He&#8217;s spent the week lining toy cars and wooden spoons up, all in a row. &nbsp;And I did see him take a toy from Erin recently because she wasn&#8217;t playing with it &#8216;right.&#8217; &nbsp;I guess I should just be thankful that they balance each other out&#8230;one makes the mess, the other can clean it up!<\/p>\n<p>Megan loves to be naked. &nbsp;Have I ever told you that? &nbsp;Seriously, I may have a little exhibitionist on my hands&#8230;who know how hard it will be to keep her clothed when she has a choice in the matter!<\/p>\n<p>I have about half of my wrapping done. &nbsp;I think Karen will be proud of my bows. &nbsp;Thankfully, I think I&#8217;m done shopping, so at least my pile of &#8220;to-wrap&#8221; shouldn&#8217;t get much bigger!<\/p>\n<p>On a less happy note, my MIL called to say that Eric&#8217;s dad was admitted to the hospital last night. &nbsp;Last year, just after Thanksgiving, he had an episode where his heart lost its normal rhythm. &nbsp;He ended up in the hospital then, too. &nbsp;But once they got it reset, things seemed fine. &nbsp;It hasn&#8217;t happened again since then, until last night. &nbsp;So, hopefully, they can get that taken care of soon. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And that is about all I have for today. &nbsp;I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so it&#8217;s officially the week of Christmas and it&#8217;s unlikely Xanga will see much traffic for a few days. &nbsp;So I thought I&#8217;d make sure I got at least one post for this week done. &nbsp;Maybe I&#8217;ll get another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2010\/12\/21\/christmas-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}