{"id":4664,"date":"2010-12-25T21:06:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T02:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:12:41","slug":"and-now-its-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/25\/and-now-its-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"And now it’s quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the planning, all the decoration, all of buying, wrapping, spending…. and then it’s done.<\/p>\n

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The Grandparents go home early because there is a snow storm threatening. <\/p>\n

The baby goes to bed. My husband gets me Green Day rock band for Christmas so after a couple rounds the oldest and I settle in front of the fire on our computers while the two middle kids and hang down and play more video games with dad.<\/p>\n

It always amazes me that when it is done, I am done. I want the tree down, the decorations down, everything clean and fresh. But I will leave the outdoor lights for a while, because I think they look so good with the snow.<\/p>\n

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I love these pictures from a few days ago, when Austin was trying to teach Eva to play the guitar.<\/p>\n

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This is the first year we have stayed put for Christmas and I realized that it may be time to cement some Christmas traditions around here. First of all we decided not to do a turkey dinner, and just made a Mexican dinner of tacos (black beans, corn, chicken, lettuce, tomatoes) homemade salsa, homemade queso, mexican casserole, burritos….
\nI mean why not, as my mother-in-law likes to say, “I’m a grown-up, I can eat ice cream for dinner if I want.” Well we can serve Mexican for Christmas if we want. <\/p>\n

We bought a batch of our local bakeries iced sugar cookies- this indeed will need to be a tradition. They are so good.<\/p>\n

I have pictures from Christmas, I am just too lazy to upload. So instead you get some that are a few days old<\/p>\n

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We have so much to cram into the next week. Andy wants to take the kids skiiing, they have OSU basketball tickets for Monday night, we have Blake’s room to re-do, the basement to clean, the tree to take down, the decorations to put away, workers back in the house for Austin’s bathroom remodel on Monday, blah blah blah. I am getting tired just thinking about it.<\/p>\n

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Hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday!!<\/p>\n

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All the planning, all the decoration, all of buying, wrapping, spending…. and then it’s done. The Grandparents go home early because there is a snow storm threatening. The baby goes to bed. My husband gets me Green Day rock band for Christmas so after a couple rounds the oldest and I settle in front of the fire on our computers while the two middle kids and hang down and play more video games with dad. It always amazes me that when it is done, I am done. I want the tree down, the decorations down, everything clean and fresh. But I will leave the outdoor lights for a while, because I think they look so good with the snow. I love these pictures from a few days ago, when Austin was trying to teach Eva to play the guitar. This is the first year we have stayed put for Christmas and I realized that it may be time to cement some Christmas traditions around here. First of all we decided not to do a turkey dinner, and just made a Mexican dinner of tacos (black beans, corn, chicken, lettuce, tomatoes) homemade salsa, homemade queso, mexican casserole, burritos…. I mean why not, as my mother-in-law likes to say, “I’m a grown-up, I can eat ice cream for dinner if I want.” Well we can serve Mexican for Christmas if we want. We bought a batch of our local bakeries iced sugar cookies- this indeed will need to be a tradition. They are so good. I have pictures from Christmas, I am just too lazy to upload. So instead you get some that are a few days old We have so much to cram into the next week. Andy wants to take the kids skiiing, they have OSU basketball tickets for Monday night, we have Blake’s room to re-do, the basement to clean, the tree to take down, the decorations to put away, workers back in the house for Austin’s bathroom remodel on Monday, blah blah blah. I am getting tired just thinking about it. Hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday!!<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","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=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21090,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions\/21090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}