{"id":354,"date":"2007-12-10T20:04:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T01:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/cont\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T20:04:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T01:04:46","slug":"cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/cont\/","title":{"rendered":"cont&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so we have had this washing machine saga going.\u00a0 It stopped working, we bought a new one.\u00a0 It fixed itself.\u00a0 We canceled the delivery of the new one, it stopped working again- for good.\u00a0 So now it is almost 8pm and we have to go re-buy the one we just returned.\u00a0 The Best Buy people are going to think we are WACKED.\u00a0 Of course we are but that is a whole different story.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s just add it to the crazy day\/week\/month\/year we have had.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to do something normal around here we got out the ornaments tonight.\u00a0 After we made sure the tree wouldn&#8217;t fall again no matter how many pooches tried to knock it over.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t have many traditions around here but we do have one good one and that is our yearly ornaments.\u00a0 We started when Austin was a baby.\u00a0 Every year each kid picks out a snowman ornament and we write the day and the year on it.\u00a0 Such a simple thing but they LOVE to get theirs out of the box and look at them, talk about them, and put them on the tree.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always an effort to keep Cole from breaking everything and of course we have the whole rivalry thing each year, trying to explain why Austin has more than everyone else, but this year they seemed to get it and nothing got broken.\u00a0 Then we fill the back of the tree with all of of Andy&#8217;s boyhood ornaments.\u00a0 I had one ornament that I always put on the tree growing up, a little angel with a bell- it was always very special to me.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow Cole goes to get a couple cavities filled.\u00a0 The first of 8- yes 8.\u00a0 I was shocked when the dentist showed me the x-rays of his little teeth.\u00a0 Besides a small cavity Blake had the boys have been cavity free.\u00a0 The dentist says Cole&#8217;s teeth are too close together and that is the cause of the cavities.\u00a0 Either way it is going to be a long expensive process.\u00a0 Poor guy.\u00a0 Between that and the rash boy I guess we will be in and out of dentist and doctor offices tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so we have had this washing machine saga going.\u00a0 It stopped working, we bought a new one.\u00a0 It fixed itself.\u00a0 We canceled the delivery of the new one, it stopped working again- for good.\u00a0 So now it is almost 8pm and we have to go re-buy the one we just returned.\u00a0 The Best Buy people are going to think we are WACKED.\u00a0 Of course we are but that is a whole different story.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s just add it to the crazy day\/week\/month\/year we have had. In an effort to do something normal around here we got out the ornaments tonight.\u00a0 After we made sure the tree wouldn&#8217;t fall again no matter how many pooches tried to knock it over.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t have many traditions around here but we do have one good one and that is our yearly ornaments.\u00a0 We started when Austin was a baby.\u00a0 Every year each kid picks out a snowman ornament and we write the day and the year on it.\u00a0 Such a simple thing but they LOVE to get theirs out of the box and look at them, talk about them, and put them on the tree.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always an effort to keep Cole from breaking everything and of course we have the whole rivalry thing each year, trying to explain why Austin has more than everyone else, but this year they seemed to get it and nothing got broken.\u00a0 Then we fill the back of the tree with all of of Andy&#8217;s boyhood ornaments.\u00a0 I had one ornament that I always put on the tree growing up, a little angel with a bell- it was always very special to me. Tomorrow Cole goes to get a couple cavities filled.\u00a0 The first of 8- yes 8.\u00a0 I was shocked when the dentist showed me the x-rays of his little teeth.\u00a0 Besides a small cavity Blake had the boys have been cavity free.\u00a0 The dentist says Cole&#8217;s teeth are too close together and that is the cause of the cavities.\u00a0 Either way it is going to be a long expensive process.\u00a0 Poor guy.\u00a0 Between that and the rash boy I guess we will be in and out of dentist and doctor offices tomorrow.<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}