{"id":2468,"date":"2009-12-19T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:15:45","slug":"and-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/19\/and-it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"And it begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was so happy to have the boys come home from school yesterday.\u00a0 Christmas break has begun!<\/p>\n<p>They were fired up and excited.<\/p>\n<p>I felt adventurous and I actually got out the big red mixer and made sugar cookies from scratch.\u00a0 Those that know and love me will know this is not my thing- but it felt good to be domestic and they turned out great.\u00a0 I will post pics later to prove I actually did it!\u00a0 I even wore an apron.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I also copied one of <a href=\"http:\/\/megduerksen.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meg&#8217;s <\/a>crafts and made the ball ornaments. They turned out so cute, I will post pics of those too.<\/p>\n<p>But for now you get more pics of Eva<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_5151\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4195367158\/img_5151.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2632\/4195367158_8da660f7ed.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5151\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_5156\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4194613579\/img_5156.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2545\/4194613579_c7046dc3a0.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5156\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a> Eva loves dogs.\u00a0 Good thing, right?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_5146\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4194611347\/img_5146.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2793\/4194611347_e846c07640.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5146\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love this one of her looking up through Shiloh <a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_5163\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4195371746\/img_5163.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4007\/4195371746_8a6c2f2769.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5163\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She still doesn&#8217;t like dog kisses though<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_5169\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4195366062\/img_5169.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4003\/4195366062_7423dfcb12.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5169\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a> Off to get some coffee and figure out the rest of the Christmas gifts.\u00a0 Nothing like last minute shopping!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so happy to have the boys come home from school yesterday.\u00a0 Christmas break has begun! They were fired up and excited. I felt adventurous and I actually got out the big red mixer and made sugar cookies from scratch.\u00a0 Those that know and love me will know this is not my thing- but it felt good to be domestic and they turned out great.\u00a0 I will post pics later to prove I actually did it!\u00a0 I even wore an apron.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 I also copied one of Meg&#8217;s crafts and made the ball ornaments. They turned out so cute, I will post pics of those too. But for now you get more pics of Eva Eva loves dogs.\u00a0 Good thing, right? I love this one of her looking up through Shiloh She still doesn&#8217;t like dog kisses though Off to get some coffee and figure out the rest of the Christmas gifts.\u00a0 Nothing like last minute shopping!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[229,592],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life","tag-eva","tag-shiloh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21405,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/21405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}