{"id":228,"date":"2005-09-21T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2005-09-21T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T00:16:00","slug":"little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/09\/21\/little-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Little things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow Ottawan Andrea at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quietfish.com\/notebook\/archives\/000233.html\">QuietFish<\/a> tagged me on this. She was talking about how we all have those little somethings in our houses that we love &#8211; things that give you a little ping of joy when you look at them.<\/p>\n<p>Although we have a really lame little mantle in our living room (oh, how I drool over the Home Depot Wish Book) it does provide a good central shelf where my most sentimental treasures can be admired but not swallowed, squashed or otherwise boyhandled. There&#8217;s a paper frame with a photo of the boys with Thomas the Tank Engine, a chunky frame with a cut-out of our wedding invitation, a photo of my parents, a few other odds and ends, and these:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1691\/827\/320\/126_2669.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The figure of the mother with two children was from my wonderful Mom this past Christmas. A three-hanky gift if there ever was one. I love it! The giraffe and elephant are also Christmas gifts from my mother, I think from separate years. (She has a knack for finding the best gifts.) And the photo makes me smile partly because it&#8217;s an adorable picture of a barely-walking Tristan admiring his own shadow as it falls on a dandylion, and partly because it&#8217;s housed in a frame from my dear friend <a href=\"http:\/\/blog-pourri.blogspot.com\">Nancy <\/a>&#8211; a woman who shares my addiction to treats from Pier One Imports.<\/p>\n<p>I can sit and admire this little collection endlessly. It&#8217;s a tangible little happy place. Thanks, Andrea, for making me think of this.<\/p>\n<p>What do you have in your house that reminds you to be blissful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow Ottawan Andrea at QuietFish tagged me on this. She was talking about how we all have those little somethings in our houses that we love &#8211; things that give you a little ping of joy when you look at them. Although we have a really lame little mantle in our living room (oh, how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/09\/21\/little-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Little things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}