{"id":815,"date":"2006-11-29T09:41:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T14:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/the-halls-are-decked-and-the-boughs-are-hollied\/"},"modified":"2006-11-29T13:20:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T18:20:24","slug":"the-halls-are-decked-and-the-boughs-are-hollied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/the-halls-are-decked-and-the-boughs-are-hollied\/","title":{"rendered":"The halls are decked and the boughs are hollied&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court and I decided that last night would be the night to carry out the family tradition of popcorn, chocolates and decorating the tree.  What fun!  The kids all had a great time and for some odd reason our tree appears a little leaner this year.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing didn&#8217;t go down without incident I&#8217;m afraid.  I said to Court, &#8220;We have too many ornaments for our tree&#8221;.  Little did I know that it soon wouldn&#8217;t be an issue.  You see, if you let Cael help decorate the tree, you are usually down a few ornaments by the end of it all.  It&#8217;s one effective way to purge the Christmas Tree clutter.  As the ornaments were raining down like huge hail stones on a windshield one of us was vacuuming it up while the other forged ahead with the mission of completing said tradition by 8:00PM.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to report that <strong>none<\/strong> of the Christmas balls painted by Nanny (that contain a lot of love, blood, sweat, and tears) were harmed.  Jordy was slightly miffed though that one of her (literally 40) ceramic ornaments fell to the demise and mercy of hurriCael.<\/p>\n<p>Once the kids went to bed though, Court and I continued to decorate the house and I can say with great confidence that by the end of the week, we should be all set and ready for the Christmas party.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you all there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court and I decided that last night would be the night to carry out the family tradition of popcorn, chocolates and decorating the tree. What fun! The kids all had a great time and for some odd reason our tree &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/the-halls-are-decked-and-the-boughs-are-hollied\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-d9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}