{"id":4234,"date":"2011-01-07T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2013-05-18T13:08:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T20:08:06","slug":"christmas-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/2011\/01\/07\/christmas-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas is still lingering over here, and not just around our\u00a0waistlines! dough!<\/em> Christmas 2010 was awesome! Having our own home made a huge difference. We had a place to hang stockings for the first time ever! <\/em>Yes! It wasn’t a banner year for our Christmas tree, however. Rowan and Eleanor teamed up to ensure that the few ornaments that had survived years of toddler abuse were tortured to death…<\/p>\n

When it came time to read & act out the Christmas story, Drew & Brinley took it upon themselves to look the part.\u00a0This is a historically accurate remake of the first Christmas. A Chick-Fil-A cow in the stable? Sure why not…<\/p>\n

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When we bought\u00a0the house\u00a0it came with a trashbag of lights stuffed in a corner the basement. Our thanks go out to the previous owners for making it possible for us to hang lights this year.\u00a0Before heading to bed D, B, & R made sure to liberally distribute sparkly reindeer food on the lawn to attract such pests.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t it\u00a0weird how Santa comes right after the kids go to sleep? Ho Ho Ho…<\/p>\n

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Busted! This little Santa spy tried to get a peek at the goods. notsomuch.<\/em> Eleanor had a tooth that was\u00a0trying to peek through her gums, and she was sure to tell us allllll about it!<\/p>\n

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There were no children harmed immediately following this photo. Dig the gray paint dots on the wall?<\/p>\n

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Isn’t this what every kid should look like on Christmas morning?<\/p>\n

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Or this? (a collection of the world’s finest root beers, glug glug!)<\/p>\n

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Looks like Santa has also\u00a0heard your cries Ellie! At long last, your own amber necklace! You & Rowan will blaze the trail for homeopathic remedies and look cute to boot!<\/p>\n

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To avoid overstimulation we took an intermission halfway through present opening. So while the clean-up\u00a0of Hurricane Noel\u00a0was in progress, Eleanor got pumped up for what might be in the next box…<\/p>\n

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The cinnamon rolls were made & left to rise, homemade eggnog chilling in the fridge. Dee-lish!\u00a0Say, is my vision getting blurry?<\/p>\n

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Maybe the blur is the anger welling up inside! During\u00a0the commotion this\u00a0rogue stallion\u00a0made a disaster\u00a0of the\u00a0blackberry pie that had been slated for dessert…<\/p>\n

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Maybe that sugar binge wasn’t such a great idea. Why is everything moving so fast?! All we know is that this lens has already said its first word…”MAMA!?” <\/em><\/p>\n

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Too much sugar, too much fun. The room is starting to spin…in\u00a0a good way!<\/p>\n

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Santa may not have given the kids rocks for Christmas, but we made sure not to let Drew & Brinley miss out. You can make these rocks shiny! The kids wasted no time getting the tumbler up & running.<\/p>\n

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Hey Drew, how long are you going to play with that toy? To infinity and beyond! That was really cheesy, but I couldn’t resist. Can you blame me? I come in peace!<\/p>\n

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The spirit of\u00a0Christmas was alive\u00a0with\u00a0my Grandma’s nativity on display. She handmade it in ’86 and passed away in ’91. I love having a piece of her with us…<\/p>\n

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The day is almost done, the fire is warm, bellies are full…<\/p>\n

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Still haven’t had enough? We threw the remaining orphan photos into a handy dandy slideshow… [photospace]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas is still lingering over here, and not just around our\u00a0waistlines! dough! Christmas 2010 was awesome! Having our own home made a huge difference. We had a place to hang stockings for the first time ever! Yes! It wasn’t a banner year for our Christmas tree, however. Rowan and Eleanor teamed up to ensure that […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4339,"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oscarstew.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}