{"id":98,"date":"2007-12-20T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/index.php\/2007\/12\/20\/almost-ready-for-christmas\/"},"modified":"2019-01-28T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:34:05","slug":"almost-ready-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/2007\/12\/almost-ready-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"(Almost) Ready for Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First Introduction to the Christmas Tree<\/span><\/div>\n

We’ve really been having a lot of fun this year jumping wholeheartedly into the holiday spirit. We (yes, did you know David is an awesome kitchen assistant??… especially when it comes to cookies<\/span>) baked seven dozen cookies for the women’s ministries cookie exchange, were one of those cheesy people who decorated for Christmas starting the weekend after Thanksgiving (after Alexander examined each box for treasures he could put in his mouth of course<\/span>), and hit the stores the day after. We mailed out over fifty Christmas Cards, strung the house with lights (most<\/span> of them work) and have already faithfully wrapped most of the presents (Alex couldn’t help wit<\/span>h this one, we did it after he went to bed<\/span>).<\/p>\n

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Bundling up for a shopping extravaganza | Irrisistable temptations…<\/span><\/div>\n

Alexander comes down the stairs each morning with mama and lights up with brilliant smiles at the sparkling Christmas tree. And he gets big grins when he watches his face distort in the shiny mirrored bulbs. When Grandpa and Grandma brought down the first load (!!?? spoiled first grandson??? nah!!!<\/span>) of presents for Winkler Family Christmas from Saginaw, Alexander was ecstatically amazed at all the bright colored boxes in the dining room. (Though we keep them in the guest room until the big day- the temptation under the tree would be more than any little one could handle.<\/span>) His first pre-present from Grandma Johnson today was a big hit (especially the tissue paper it was wrapped in<\/span>) and we think he’s just going to be beside himself in the midst of all the paper, bows, and commotion. We can’t wait! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! (Can we finally get some sleep now?<\/span>)<\/p>\n

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\nDecoration Inspector | Tatou and Alexander paruse the gifts “Is this one for me???”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Introduction to the Christmas Tree We’ve really been having a lot of fun this year jumping wholeheartedly into the holiday spirit. We (yes, did you know David is an awesome kitchen assistant??… especially when it comes to cookies) baked seven dozen cookies for the women’s ministries cookie exchange, were Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,17],"tags":[416,409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}