{"id":7910,"date":"2013-02-02T08:09:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2013-02-02T08:09:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T13:09:24","slug":"this-week-in-pictures-winter-family-fun-and-an-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/this-week-in-pictures-winter-family-fun-and-an-award\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in pictures: winter family fun – and an award!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>How cool is this? I just found out that Postcards from the Mothership won third place in the “Art and Photography” category of the Canadian Weblog Awards!!<\/p>\n

\"2012<\/a><\/p>\n

I had been nominated<\/a> in three (!) categories: Best Parenting Blog, Best Blog about Life and Best Art and Photography Blog. (And a HUGE thank you to whomever nominated me!) I love the fact that the Canadian Weblog Awards are juried (no grovelling for votes!) and I love love love that I won in the Art and Photography category. Thank you!!!<\/p>\n

So, ahem, how about some photos?<\/p>\n

On Saturday, we went out to enjoy Manotick’s Shiverfest with a little sledding. What we didn’t realize until after was that the city had closed all its hills because they were so icy. We’d hauled ourselves out in the cold, though, and we had the hill to ourselves for most of the time we were there, so with me playing traffic cop to make sure nobody took off too soon and wiped out a brother, we ended up having a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

\"Shiverfest<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Shiverfest<\/a><\/p>\n

Listening to Lucas hoot and holler, somewhere between exhilaration and terror, was priceless, as was his bellow of assurance at the bottom of each run. “I’m okay mom!”<\/p>\n

\"Shiverfest<\/a><\/p>\n

The next day Tristan and I braved the cold for a wander around the Lime Kiln Trail. The poor wee birds must have been starving with the recent deep freeze, because I swear we could have just sat in the car and held our hands out the window to feed them. We’ve fed the chickadees many times, and I’ve never seen them so aggressive.<\/p>\n

\"Feeding<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Feeding<\/a><\/p>\n

The middle bit of the week was a little less photogenic. Tristan put together this “cracker napkin” and I thought it would make a good instagram shot.<\/p>\n

\"Cracker<\/a><\/p>\n

And there’s always room for a cat-dog shot, right?<\/p>\n

\"Cat's<\/a><\/p>\n

(I’d like that one a lot more if the light had been a little better and the shot a little less grainy. Oh well.)<\/p>\n

And then suddenly, Simon was nine years old<\/a>!<\/p>\n

\"Happy<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Can<\/a><\/p>\n

Doesn’t his expression say “okay mom, one more, but can I eat my cake now please?”<\/p>\n

Now if you’ll excuse me, I think there is a birthday party at some point<\/a> today for which I should be getting ready… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How cool is this? I just found out that Postcards from the Mothership won third place in the “Art and Photography” category of the Canadian Weblog Awards!! I had been nominated in three (!) categories: Best Parenting Blog, Best Blog about Life and Best Art and Photography Blog. (And a HUGE thank you to whomever … Continue reading “This week in pictures: winter family fun – and an award!!”<\/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":[13,75,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-15-minutes","category-project-365","category-postcards-from-manotick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}