Previously, I’d haul out all the decorations for the house and the tree for an intense and exhausting day of holiday overkill, but this year I’ve decided to take a “ten minutes is enough time to hang two decorations” approach. (I have a niggling suspicion this will leave me with a half-decorated house come Christmas Eve. We’ll see.)<\/p>\n
Which leads me to the point of this somewhat verbose introduction – my first contribution to the Winter Holiday of Your Choice Blog Extravaganza<\/a>! Look, not only did I manage to put up decorations, but I remembered to take pictures of them!<\/p>\n This is the first decoration I hung up. I made it about five years ago, in the days when I could spend an entire weekend playing with my jig saw and paints and bits of crafty stuff and not worry about a preschooler tugging on my arm every eleven minutes. The snowmen used to hang independently around the house, but I bought the fake bough a couple of years ago and they make a nice quartet. They hang on a landing half way up the stairs, and the boys like to say goodnight to them as we pass them on the way up to bed each night.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And this one is a treat I bought myself on our blissful apple-picking adventure <\/a>back in September. It was hanging in a shop window in Merrickville and caught my eye as we wandered past. Beloved herded the kids for a few mintues while I ran in to buy it – as soon as I saw it I had to have it. (Okay, so it turns out I’m not so good with delayed gratification after all.)<\/p>\n Last night, we went to our first Christmas party of the season. (Thanks, Bren!) It was with the same group of women (and men) I’ve mentioned before<\/a>, and I simply do not see enough of them so it really was a fun evening. My only complaint is that our kids are *almost* of an age where we can leave them unsupervised – but not quite. Although I would have loved to sit in one place for more than three minutes and chat with my dear friends, I mostly ran around the house chasing Simon out of mischief and trying to convince him to eat bits of meatball and cheese cubes on the run.<\/p>\n Shopping, Christmas decorations and music, and even a party – can a weekend get any better than that? <\/p>\n Categories: <\/span>HolidayBlogExtravaganza<\/span><\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m taking a new approach to the whole Christmas preparation thing this year. Hey, American Thanksgiving has passed — I’m officially allowed to indulge in my Christmas addiction now! Last weekend, I took advantage of a day of above-zero temperatures to hang the Christmas lights (and do a last minute raking and backyard poop scooping. … Continue reading “Bring it on!”<\/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-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1691\/827\/400\/deco2.jpg\")
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