{"id":1056,"date":"2010-12-19T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T12:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.2dogsbarkin.com\/blog\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2020-05-31T23:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T03:07:23","slug":"getting-ready-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2dogsbarkin.com\/blog\/archives\/1056","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a new grand\u00a0baby in the family I have been very unorganized and busy this holiday season, and I have not been keeping up with my blogging. So here I am the last day of my vacation, trying to update the blog with all that has happened over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n

The tree and the lights went up the weekend of Thanksgiving. The weather was mild and made putting up the lights a pleasant affair. There is nothing worse than trying to manipulate cold, stiff lights with cold fingers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Tree\"<\/a>
Our Christmas Tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The rest of the holiday season was spent\u00a0shopping for\u00a0“the perfect gift” for all of our friends and family. Most of our shopping was done\u00a0on-line and the presents\u00a0arrived on our\u00a0doorstep.\u00a0No crowds, no\u00a0long lines, and best of all no frustration. I LOVE Amazon.com!!<\/p>\n

The week before Christmas it was time to wrap presents. We pulled out all of the gifts, paper, tags, bags and bows. I turned on some Holiday tunes, John opened up a bottle of wine. Normally I put most gifts in gift-bags, but kids like to open presents so we wrapped everything this year. By the time we were done wrapping presents, I was feeling pretty good from all of the wine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"Wrapping<\/a><\/dt>\n
Wrapping Presents<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Fortunately I didn’t get any of the presents mixed up. Now we just had to wait for Christmas to get here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With a new grand\u00a0baby in the family I have been very unorganized and busy this holiday season, and I have not been keeping up with my blogging. So here I am the last day of my vacation, trying to update the blog with all that has happened over the last two weeks. 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