{"id":4251,"date":"2012-12-25T21:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T02:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2012-12-25T21:00:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T02:00:51","slug":"christmaskidsgreat-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2012\/12\/christmaskidsgreat-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas+kids=great joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As planned, I spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day with family.  I had a wonderful time in all of our visits, activities, and meals.  I loved the gifts I received and seeing other open the gifts I gave.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the last of the gifts I made this Christmas &#8211; an owl hat was requested by my daughter.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/owl-hat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/owl-hat.jpg\" alt=\"owl hat\" title=\"owl-hat\" width=\"237\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/owl-hat.jpg 306w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/owl-hat-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/owl-hat-102x150.jpg 102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got a free pattern from <a href=\"http:\/\/penguinpurls.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/who.html\" target=\"_blank\">Penguin Pearls <\/a>and made some modifications to suit me better.  <\/p>\n<p>Most fun of all, of course, is little ones at Christmas time.  Despite the fact that the holiday has lasted a week and my grandson is over tired and easily cranky, he can still laugh with abandon when something tickles his funny bone.  Having his Mama make an earthquake in his new beanbag chair is a barrel of laughs.  I had to learn how to edit &#038; embed a video that isn&#8217;t on YouTube to get this in here &#8211; I hope it works so that you can all see this crazy fun.<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=109786\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=40998fcd27&#038;photo_id=8309281540\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=109786\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=109786\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=40998fcd27&#038;photo_id=8309281540\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Although both sled and swing were presents from before, we had fun playing outside in the snow for a while with them anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sled-goes-fast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sled-goes-fast.jpg\" alt=\"sled goes fast\" title=\"sled-goes-fast\" width=\"550\" height=\"246\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sled-goes-fast.jpg 550w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sled-goes-fast-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sled-goes-fast-150x67.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sled-goes-fast-400x178.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ssswwwwing-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ssswwwwing-web.jpg\" alt=\"ssswwwing\" title=\"ssswwwwing\" width=\"277\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ssswwwwing-web.jpg 277w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ssswwwwing-web-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ssswwwwing-web-92x150.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we had fun playing with trains on the new little wooden table.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/train-on-table.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/train-on-table.jpg\" alt=\"train on table\" title=\"train-on-table\" width=\"450\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/train-on-table.jpg 450w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/train-on-table-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/train-on-table-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/train-on-table-400x291.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As planned, I spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day with family. I had a wonderful time in all of our visits, activities, and meals. I loved the gifts I received and seeing other open the gifts I gave.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the last of the gifts I made this Christmas &#8211; an owl hat was requested by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[277],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","tag-christmas","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4260,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/4260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}