{"id":778,"date":"2008-12-06T11:34:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T16:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=778"},"modified":"2008-12-06T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T16:34:48","slug":"starting-the-christmas-season-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Starting the Christmas season here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We actually put the tree up this past week, but the kids and I are going to get into the Christmas spirit today.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to make sugar cookies, I think from this <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/Recipe\/The-Best-Rolled-Sugar-Cookies\/Detail.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Allrecipes.com recipe<\/a>, but here&#8217;s 2 others that I&#8217;d love to try&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/thepioneerwoman.com\/cooking\/2007\/12\/my_favorite_christmas_cookies_from_childhood_and_beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Pioneer Woman&#8217;s cutouts<\/a> with an egg yolk glaze that looks like watercolor or stained glass and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettycrocker.com\/Recipes\/recipe.aspx?recipeId=34165\" target=\"_blank\">this Betty Crocker recipe<\/a> that a friend reminded me I passed on.\u00a0 Maybe I got it from Anna??\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t actually made any of these, but we&#8217;re going to do one of them today.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll come back to share the results!<\/p>\n<p>While the dough is refrigerating, we&#8217;re going to pick up the house a bit and put up some more decorations.\u00a0 The tree only has about 30 ornaments on it, but the kids have been taking them off and rearranging them so much that I think we may not add any more.\u00a0 Is that terrible?\u00a0 They&#8217;re quite happy with the ones we have, and next year it&#8217;ll be like all our other ornaments are brand new to us because we haven&#8217;t seen them.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m also thinking how easy it will be to undecorate the tree with such few ornaments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We actually put the tree up this past week, but the kids and I are going to get into the Christmas spirit today.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to make sugar cookies, I think from this Allrecipes.com recipe, but here&#8217;s 2 others that I&#8217;d love to try&#8230; The Pioneer Woman&#8217;s cutouts with an egg yolk glaze that looks [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-cy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}