{"id":1086,"date":"2009-12-09T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2009-12-08T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T21:56:09","slug":"deck-the-halls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Deck the Halls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmasdecorations_0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was whining about being too busy to decorate last week and my sweet sister Aimee volunteered to come rescue me.???? Decorating is not a strength of mine.?? I like it when it is done &#8211; LOVE it actually&#8230;but to do it&#8230;that is just a task for me and frankly not one high on my list.?? When we got the decorations down last night, it took Tori less than five minutes to open a ball box, throw one and break it.?? Grrrrr.?? (Side note:?? I got after Ty for something yesterday and Tori followed up the lecture for me.?? First she swatted him two times on his tummy. Then she pointed and said &#8220;NO!&#8221;&#8230;then my favorite part&#8230;she growled.?? :)?? )?? Poppy&#8217;s growl passed from him to my mother to me and now to Tori.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmasdecorations_0003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aimee did most of the decorating and I chatted and wandered for the most part.?? I did make us all ginger ale and egg nog &#8211; that is a must have while decorating. ?? I was totally good with letting her take control of this project.<\/p>\n<p>At lunch, I asked Zane if he would pray and his prayer was so adorable I had to write it down right away.<\/p>\n<p>Me:?? Zane do you want to pray before lunch for us?<\/p>\n<p>Zane:?? Ya!!!?? I am a really good pray-er.<\/p>\n<p>Me:?? I am so glad.?? I asked just the right person then.<\/p>\n<p>Zane:?? Dear Jesus.?? Thank you for our food.?? Thank you that everybody won&#8217;t die and they&#8217;ll go to heaven.?? Thank you for my camoflauge birthday.?? Thank you for my pinata so everybody can whack it.?? And everyone is going to wear camo.?? Except Karsyn.?? Karsyn doesn&#8217;t have any camo.?? She only has princess stuff like Ariel.?? She can just wear that.?? Amen.<\/p>\n<p>And God smiled.?? I just know it.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>He is such a pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmasdecorations_0007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tori antics for the day:<\/p>\n<p>Several minor stuff but one  worthy of liftetime recognition.?? She got a hold of Tanner&#8217;s toothbrush and used it to brush her teeth.?? No big deal right??? Only problem was she couldn&#8217;t reach the sink so she used toilet water.?? I caught her in the act and I was solidly horrified.?? Tanner has two toothbrushes and his siblings have managed to wipe both out in 48 hours.?? Ty, for reasons unknown, flushed the other toothbrush down the toilet yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmasdecorations_0015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I always ask Tanner to set up the manger scene.?? His tradition has stuck and I am in love with it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmasdecorations_0018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmasdecorations_0019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Word list:?? She also says ball and now &#8220;bow&#8221;.?? Hee hee.?? Figures she would learn &#8220;bow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And last but now least&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU &#8211; HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU &#8211; HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR JODI &#8211; HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was whining about being too busy to decorate last week and my sweet sister Aimee volunteered to come rescue me.???? Decorating is not a strength of mine.?? I like it when it is done &#8211; LOVE it actually&#8230;but to do it&#8230;that is just a task for me and frankly not one high on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}