{"id":1512,"date":"2009-10-07T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2009-10-07T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T14:14:11","slug":"looking-back-grandma-sandys-visit-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1512","title":{"rendered":"Looking back&#8230; Grandma Sandy&#8217;s visit in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m wayyyyy behind on posting pics, but hopefully this will bring a smile to Grandma Sandy&#8217;s face!\u00a0 I always look forward to her extended visits during the summer.\u00a0 We have fun with the kids, and she&#8217;s a great motivator to get little projects done around my house.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some cute pics of her and the kids, as well as a couple of the projects we finished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gma-sandy-kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1514\" title=\"gma-sandy-kids\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gma-sandy-kids.jpg\" alt=\"gma-sandy-kids\" width=\"500\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gma-sandy-kids.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gma-sandy-kids-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gma-sandy-reading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1515\" title=\"gma-sandy-reading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gma-sandy-reading.jpg\" alt=\"gma-sandy-reading\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gma-sandy-reading.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gma-sandy-reading-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/silhouettes-finally.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1516\" title=\"silhouettes-finally\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/silhouettes-finally.jpg\" alt=\"silhouettes-finally\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/silhouettes-finally.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/silhouettes-finally-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve had this project half-done for a YEAR now, and we finally finished it.\u00a0 These silhouettes are from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graceviolet.com\/2008\/04\/paper-crafts-are-probably-my-favorite.html\">this post<\/a>, and I&#8217;m really pleased with how they turned out! My friend, Jane, also did a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1125\">set of these<\/a> for her girls when I was in Nicaragua.\u00a0 A fun keepsake project!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fireplacebench.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1513\" title=\"fireplacebench\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fireplacebench.jpg\" alt=\"fireplacebench\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fireplacebench.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fireplacebench-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We finally took down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=84\">the jail<\/a> (cute baby Analise pic alert in that link! AKA the hearth gate that blocked the fireplace), and mom helped me fashion a simple padded bench.\u00a0 The fabric matches the pillows on the couch&#8230; and it will not show crumbs\/dirt \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/UCL-redeemer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1517\" title=\"UCL-redeemer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/UCL-redeemer.jpg\" alt=\"UCL-redeemer\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/UCL-redeemer.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/UCL-redeemer-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We also put up a custom wording from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uppercaseliving.com\">Upper Case Living<\/a> that I ordered last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m wayyyyy behind on posting pics, but hopefully this will bring a smile to Grandma Sandy&#8217;s face!\u00a0 I always look forward to her extended visits during the summer.\u00a0 We have fun with the kids, and she&#8217;s a great motivator to get little projects done around my house.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some cute pics of her and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[37,21],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-grind","tag-craft","tag-grandma-sandy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-oo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}