{"id":3714,"date":"2013-12-26T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2013-12-26T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T23:58:00","slug":"we-had-a-small-but-wonderful-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/12\/26\/we-had-a-small-but-wonderful-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"We had a small but wonderful Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year it was just Will, David, and me for Christmas, but it was still great. Very quiet and laid back. We slept in, then enjoyed watching each other open a few packages under the tree. Well, kind of under the tree. Because of very active Hondo, who likes to crash around, be naughty by chewing things, and generally act wild, we not only put our tree up on top of a sturdy coffee table but put the presents on the antique vanity that Will is turning into a bathroom vanity. Just in case. It turned out that Hondo did NOT bother the tree one bit! Wow, were we shocked and surprised.<\/p>\n

The highlight of the morning was when Will opened several packages from some of the “girls” who had come to our seminar two years in a row. Now when they gifted me with a beautiful Nutrimill grain grinder (complete with a bagging attachment!), Will jokingly put on a pout and said “Gee, why does JACKIE get all the toys?” Now the girls couldn’t let that one go by. So they got together and each sent Will a Christmas box with a toy tractor in it! So now the boy’s got his very own toys. How funny that was, watching him open those boxes!<\/p>\n

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Today, it’s business as usual. Will is starting to poly the new bathroom vanity-to-be after removing the old varnish. He started out using a regular varnish\/paint stripper but ended up using carburetor cleaner instead! (On the can it says not to get it on varnish or paint, so he gave it a try in an inconspicuous spot.) It worked much better than the stripper! I can’t wait to see how it turns out.<\/p>\n

Now if I can just zip my jeans after eating all that food on Christmas: ham, deviled eggs, baked squash, carrots, rolls, and scalloped potatoes, with pumpkin (really Hopi Pale Grey squash!) pie, apple pie, and Will’s cheesecake for dessert. Then there was fudge and cookies, too. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year it was just Will, David, and me for Christmas, but it was still great. Very quiet and laid back. We slept in, then enjoyed watching each other open a few packages under the tree. Well, kind of under the tree. Because of very active Hondo, who likes to crash around, be naughty by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}