{"id":10980,"date":"2023-01-29T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T22:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/?p=10980"},"modified":"2023-01-29T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T22:05:27","slug":"december-pics-and-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2023\/01\/29\/december-pics-and-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"December pics and Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

December was a busy, festive month!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jack switched from violin to cello<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wrapping presents, Sam learned quickly!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The upstairs bathroom had a leaking wax ring that damaged the subfloor. We had to remodel most of the bathroom during Nov-Dec.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the end it turned out very nice, and the room is better waterproofed now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Festive-wear for spirit week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Using up Halloween candy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Whoppers in the mix = “Toad Brownes”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Waterhouses came to visit!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They mostly forgot how to skate since last year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Skating free-handed by the end of the session<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cozy video game playing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our boiler stopped working, we got it fixed (or so we thought…to be continued below)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sam learned to make my banana muffin recipe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sugar cookies (while Jack frosted cookies at his friend’s house)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jack successfully made me herbal tea when I was too cold to get up and make my own<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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bundled up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sledding on Christmas Eve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just barely enough snow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As you saw, we had heating problems. A serviceman reset the flame roll-out switch, saying it was tripped on a false alarm and should be safe and good now. It worked for another week, lasting through the deep freeze that blanketed the country. Then at 5pm on Christmas Eve the boiler stopped working again. I spent hours trying to get a technician, but no one could come out sooner than Monday after Christmas. I started a roaring fire and Ben rummaged the open stores for some space heaters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We finally got the boiler repaired the next week. It turns out the other company didn’t really do anything to address the problem that tripped the switch. The boiler had to be taken apart, mineral build up cleaned out, and the expansion tank system replaced. Also he discovered the flue had rusty cracks, so it was replaced too. Also the regulator for the upstairs thermostat wasn’t working, so that was replaced too. After all that work we have a heating system that works better than it has in years. But it was quite stressful to have so many problems needing repair, and it was a terrible time for it all to break down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had also been planning a trip to Seattle to celebrate Ben’s birthday. There was a winter storm that Southwest Airlines completely failed to manage. Our flights were canceled and we had to reschedule our trip for later in January. I’m actually happy that we moved the trip, but it was another huge source of stress the week of Christmas, wondering if we were going to travel or not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that aside, Christmas was bright and jolly and fun for all. Andy was cat-sitting for Amanda. It was so nice to have him join us for Christmas dinner, as well as a couple other visits. We watched Glass Onion together and played a board game (after I solved the mystery of the locked garage and freed his car). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I saw footprints on the neighbor’s roof!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sam was ecstatic! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I texted the neighbor and watched her little girls come out and jump with joy at seeing the footprints too. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Puzzle complete!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Seeeecret latch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December was a busy, festive month! As you saw, we had heating problems. A serviceman reset the flame roll-out switch, saying it was tripped on a false alarm and should be safe and good now. It worked for another week, lasting through the deep freeze that blanketed the country. Then at 5pm on Christmas Eve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10986,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions\/10986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}