{"id":2480,"date":"2010-12-26T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T21:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2010-12-26T21:24:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T03:24:48","slug":"changes-christmas-and-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/?p=2480","title":{"rendered":"Changes, Christmas and SNOW!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christmas Snow...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christmas was very different this year.\u2020 The snow changed plans.\u2020 We were snowed in.<\/p>\n

We had our first Christmas in this house\u00d6Kei and I<\/span><\/em> had our first Christmas in this house\u00d6\u00eeI\u00ee have many Christmas\u00eds here.<\/p>\n

As I lay in bed, and thought back to the last Christmas that I spent surrounded by these walls many years ago; I wondered what that <\/em>girl thought of?\u2020 Did she have dreams and plans?\u2020 Did she have any idea of where life would take her?\u2020 Did she know she would marry a man she loved, only to divorce him a few years later?\u2020 Did she ever imagine she would live in a city with a huge golden bridge?\u2020 Work for an Award winning company?\u2020 Have the most beautiful child in the world?\u2020 Life is funny; full of twists and turns at every corner.\u2020 Mistakes have to be made, choices, decisions.\u2020 All roads lead to here.<\/p>\n

To this moment, laying beside a wiggly, giggly 10 year old who cannot wait to wake up and see what Christmas brought her.\u2020 Who could not wait to watch her puppy\u00eds first Christmas.\u2020 Back to this house, this moment, this life.<\/p>\n

We had a white Christmas!\u2020 WE had a white Christmas.\u2020 To my dear friends who spend the winter with snow on the ground, you may not understand the HUGENESS of this event to these Alabama girls.\u2020 Kei woke me up with, \u00ecWe have\u2020 a white Christmas\u00ee and I jumped up and looked out the window.\u2020 It was beautiful.<\/p>\n

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It Snowed!!!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She took the dog out for a bit and he loved his first taste of snow.<\/p>\n

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Early Morning Snow...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nomad's 1st Snow...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We have a ritual every Christmas.\u2020 I can\u00edt function without a bath; she can\u00edt possibly wait to open at least something.\u2020 So she opens her stocking while I take my bath.\u2020 She sits on the floor in the bathroom and pulls out things one by one.\u2020 She oohs and aahs over everything.\u2020 There was lipstick and candy and books and earrings and a necklace and bottle caps and an iTunes gift card and puzzles and more.<\/p>\n

We read the last day of our Jesse Tree and put the last ornament on the tree.\u2020 We loved this so much and fully intend to make this an annual tradition.<\/p>\n

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Our Jesse Tree...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We loved this so much that we visited the site<\/a> that was talked about in our Jesse Tree book and found a little girl we wanted to ‘adopt’.\u2020 Kei and I don’t have a lot of extra money.\u2020 We discussed it and decided we would do without some things in order to do this.\u2020 Her name is Neeta, she is from India and she is 8 years old.\u2020 She is the daughter of a single Mother.\u2020 We can\u2020 not wait to get the information about her.<\/p>\n

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Neeta...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then the gift unwrapping began.\u2020 She got me some great house shoes which I live in during winter, candles, some bubble bath, bath spray and KEIpons. Which are great coupons with things like “Good for taking Nomad out 6 times” or “One dinner, I cook”.\u2020 All of my favorite things.<\/p>\n

She opened and opened gifts.\u2020 I know her so well, she is so easy to buy for because she loves everything!\u2020 There was felt and yarn and more clay and an Edward Scissorhands shirt and boots and science kits and games and Webkinz and more.\u2020 She was delighted with everything.<\/p>\n

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Webkinz Batik Elephant...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Shirt with Kei's "Future Husband"...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wizard Kit...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Great Owl Hat!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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WOW Thanks Santa and Mommy!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then we got Nomad to ‘open’ his gifts.\u2020 He was hysterical!<\/p>\n

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A Bone for ME????<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Silly Girl and Silly Dog...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was a calm and a peace of knowing that we had no where to be, nothing that HAD to be done.\u2020 We made a huge breakfast, we ate snacks all day, I played an online game with my best friend who lives in Cali, she played Webkinz, we played Phase 10, we watched Gilmore Girls.\u2020 We laughed and danced and played with Nomad.\u2020 It was a lovely Christmas.<\/p>\n

Today there was snow playing; although it was MUCH colder than yesterday.\u2020 There was more game playing and watching TV and laughing.<\/p>\n

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Kei and Nomad...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Me and Nomad...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Catch Nomad!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nice Catch.....<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We quickly found out that we didn’t love the freezing weather….Nomad was a different story.\u2020 We had to fight him to bring him in!<\/p>\n

This has been a wonderful Christmas weekend.\u2020 We are so blessed.\u2020 I hope your holiday was magical and special and a blessing to you and your family.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:\u2020 the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.\u2020 ~Burton Hillis<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas was very different this year.\u2020 The snow changed plans.\u2020 We were snowed in. We had our first Christmas in this house\u00d6Kei and I had our first Christmas in this house\u00d6\u00eeI\u00ee have many Christmas\u00eds here. As I lay in bed, and thought back to the last Christmas that I spent surrounded by these walls many … Continue reading Changes, Christmas and SNOW!!!!!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-all-the-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ico2-E0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolgirls.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}