{"id":8905,"date":"2013-12-23T14:11:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=8905"},"modified":"2013-12-23T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:11:58","slug":"happy-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/23\/happy-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy @ Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> have been thinking about doing some sort of gratitude journal, maybe in a tumblr or something. I just have so much in my life for which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thankful, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice to pay a little lip service to God or the Universe or your deity of choice, I think, to remind yourself of just how lucky you are, especially when so many others are maybe facing unexpected hardship this holiday season.<\/p>\n

And so, in the name of blogging like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2007, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s five things that are making me smile today.<\/p>\n

1. Found doggies<\/strong><\/p>\n

My friend Kev lives out in Kemptville, and yesterday he posted on Facebook that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d found two beagle hound pups that had clearly slipped away from home. Not quite 24 hours (and dozens of re-tweets, and hundreds of Facebook shares) later, it looks like Dancer and Nemo are on their way back home for Christmas. I love a happy ending!<\/p>\n

2. Free coffee<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was thinking of paying for the coffee for the guy behind me in the drive through at the Tim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in Manotick this morning, because I was already feeling pretty chipper and wanted to share the joy. The guy in front of me beat me to it and paid for mine. People are nice, eh?<\/p>\n

3. The Vinyl Caf\u00c3\u00a9 at the NAC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beloved and I brought Tristan and Simon to their first show ever at the National Arts Centre yesterday. It was a bit of a white-knuckle drive in and out of town, but totally worth it to enjoy the live Christmas version of the Vinyl Caf\u00c3\u00a9 with Stuart McLean. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been listening to the radio show for ages, I download podcasts for long trips and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve even read a few of the books aloud, so bringing Tristan and Simon to a live show was a terrific Christmas treat. They loved it and so did we, and Lucas had an awesome afternoon with the family of his best friend.<\/p>\n

4. Santa visits at work<\/strong><\/p>\n

The boys are coming with me to work tomorrow for our annual kids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Christmas party and Santa visit. I sort of dropped the ball on Santa photos this year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we thought the local Rexall would have Santa yesterday and I pinned our hopes on that, but I missed by a day. Apparently Santa visited on Saturday, not Sunday. I suppose he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got his own last minute tasks to wrap up. But he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be dropping by my office tomorrow, and the boys and I are all looking forward to this family tradition.<\/p>\n

5. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Christmas!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty much ready, I think. I just breezed past a line-up of at least 100 people in the Chapters downtown (it snaked from the cash registers to the back of the store and started to loop back around again \u00e2\u20ac\u201c easily the longest line by far I have ever seen there) and said a little prayer of thanks that I have nothing of consequence left on my Christmas to-do list. After the kids visit with Santa tomorrow, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably catch a family movie, and then we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll host the Ottawa part of our family for Christmas Eve. Yay!<\/p>\n

Bonus item: Bella\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking of doggies and Christmas, how happy does Bella look to be featured in this birthday portrait? Our pup celebrates her first birthday on Christmas day. Now that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a year old, she won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be nearly so mischevious, right? And that makes me happy, too! (Shhhh, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t harsh my bliss and tell me otherwise!)<\/p>\n

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Happy Christmas to all of you, and much love! May your holidays be filled with joyful moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been thinking about doing some sort of gratitude journal, maybe in a tumblr or something. I just have so much in my life for which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thankful, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice to pay a little lip service to God or the Universe or your deity of choice, I think, to remind yourself of just … Continue reading “Happy @ Christmas”<\/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":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905","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=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8909,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions\/8909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}