{"id":666,"date":"2013-12-04T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/04\/holiday-overload"},"modified":"2013-12-04T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T03:58:00","slug":"holiday-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2013\/12\/04\/holiday-overload\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack must have a mixed up understanding of holidays.\u00a0 On top of Thanksgiving, we started our Hanukkah sock opening per Mason family tradition (Thank you Betty and Rick, we love them!).<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/11199847885\" title=\"  by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7449\/11199847885_1e0946c5e7.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/11199978743\" style=\"clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;\" title=\"  by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3785\/11199978743_4b66ce0e34.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/11199857284\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\" title=\"  by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3796\/11199857284_bacaac02b9.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Then the Hanukkah socks have overlapped with Christmas decorating.\u00a0 Every day Jack asks me if it&#8217;s Christmas yet.\u00a0 I forgot to get a chocolate advent calendar, and my embroidered one is not ready for use yet.\u00a0 Poor kid.\u00a0 Time is abstract for a three year old who can&#8217;t tell when a new day starts or ends, give or take a nap, and changing daylight hours.\u00a0 But it doesn&#8217;t bother him too much.\u00a0 All he cares about is that Santa brings him Skylanders Swapforce.\u00a0 He tells everyone we meet who mentions Christmas to him.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/11199859515\" title=\"  by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3800\/11199859515_dc2100288c.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and check out this glorious marshmallow I made.\u00a0 My folks gave me a recipe book as an early Christmas present.\u00a0 I took the hint.\u00a0 These are marvelous, and I have plans for two more radical ones.\u00a0 This one is just a plain vanilla bean, to be sure I understood the basic recipe &#8211; it&#8217;s quite different from my usual one, and much better too.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/11199993683\" title=\"  by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5543\/11199993683_aa7d21062f.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bonus picture of Sam&#8217;s first rollover, as previous mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/11199868396\" title=\"  by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5483\/11199868396_91be1f477f.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack must have a mixed up understanding of holidays.\u00a0 On top of Thanksgiving, we started our Hanukkah sock opening per Mason family tradition (Thank you Betty and Rick, we love them!). Then the Hanukkah socks have overlapped with Christmas decorating.\u00a0 Every day Jack asks me if it&#8217;s Christmas yet.\u00a0 I forgot to get a chocolate [&hellip;]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","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\/666","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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}