{"id":3859,"date":"2014-12-28T23:38:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T23:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2014-12-28T23:50:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T23:50:57","slug":"after-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=3859","title":{"rendered":"After the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Has Christmas really come and gone already?\u00a0 Wasn’t it just a few days ago I was putting out the pumpkins for Autumn and decorating for that season?\u00a0 Seems that when October gets here the days just fly toward December 25th.\u00a0 I don’t know why, but for me they do.\u00a0 It’s all a blur.<\/p>\n

I finally crashed today after church. I knew it was coming because I have been on warp speed for the last few weeks.\u00a0 I came home from having dinner and laid down on my bed and slept for hours.\u00a0 I am still extremely tired, almost like jet lag.<\/p>\n

But, enough of that.\u00a0 We had a very pleasant Christmas.\u00a0 I say that because after everyone had gone home David said, “Now that was a nice Christmas.”\u00a0 It wasn’t gawdy or raucous and the food wasn’t all that splendid because I just didn’t feel like cooking a big dinner, but everyone seemed to enjoy the day.\u00a0\u00a0 I must say the grandboys hit the bonanza with gifts.\u00a0 Their uncle gave them their favorite gifts this year.<\/p>\n

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Cincinnati Reds backpacks. But that wasn’t all. Inside the backpacks were Reds jerseys, tickets to a Reds game and a scorecard book to various other Reds’ activities.\u00a0 The boys loved them.<\/p>\n

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This boy put on his bathrobe I had made him and his backpack and did not take them off the entire day!\u00a0 Look, what movie is on television?\u00a0 It runs all day on Christmas.<\/p>\n

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Did I mention how tall my grandson is and that all the rest of us are Hobbits?<\/p>\n

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Yes,\u00a0 we are all Hobbits.<\/p>\n

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My older son had asked me to make him a quilt for his couch, so I did.\u00a0 I think he liked it.\u00a0 It’s called the Australian Bush quilt.\u00a0\u00a0I have made several of these.\u00a0 Got the pattern from a quilt magazine years ago.\u00a0 I use to teach classes on it.<\/p>\n

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I made our daughter a butterfly quilt and I forgot to take a picture of it.\u00a0 As usual.\u00a0 I’ll try to remember to get a picture of it\u00a0when we are at her house this week.<\/p>\n

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I received some nice gifts.\u00a0 A new computer since mine broke a few months ago and I have been using my husband’s old one.\u00a0 I received this wonderful picture.\u00a0 Reminds me of the place where I grew up for some reason.\u00a0 I don’t know why,\u00a0since our barn was red, but we did have several out buildings like in this picture.\u00a0 And there was always a snowman in the yard or barn lot during the winter months.<\/p>\n

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Remember that big mystery box I received from Santa?\u00a0 The one I couldn’t open until Christmas?\u00a0 This was in it and I love it.\u00a0 An antique chicken feeder.\u00a0From a friend who knows I love chickens.\u00a0 \u00a0 I have never seen one with such wonderful graphics and I have plans for it already.\u00a0 In fact, I think I am going to decorate an entire room around it.\u00a0 I have wanted to redo our dining room for a while and now I have a reason.\u00a0 I see cream colored walls, red buffalo checked curtains from Country curtains\u00a0and this as a centerpiece with dried flowers in it.\u00a0 I haven’t painted a room in a while and it’s about time.\u00a0 I also have a bathroom I am going to redo this winter.\u00a0 I have the curtain material for its window\u00a0and know the color paint I want.\u00a0 I just need a new ladder as the old wooden one we have is very rickety and I don’t feel safe on it.\u00a0\u00a0 I got a gift card from Lowes so I know what I am going to do with it.\u00a0 My favorite thing is going to Lowes to look at paints or to Rural King and look at farm things.\u00a0 I’m a farmer’s daughter and I will always be one.<\/p>\n

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Christmas Day night\u00a0we \u00a0saw the best Christmas movie I have seen in years called, The Secret Santa.\u00a0 It made me a believer in Santa. As if I don’t already believe!\u00a0 I think it will become a must watch movie for us, just like Christmas Story.<\/p>\n

Closing the window on another Christmas.\u00a0 Next year I hope more of our family can join us, but we are scattered now and it is harder to get together.\u00a0 But I have hopes.\u00a0 Now it’s on to a brand new polished and bright New Year.\u00a0 We can make a new start.\u00a0 We can dream new dreams.\u00a0 We can hope new hopes.\u00a0 May the new year bring you health, peace and happiness.<\/p>\n

My next post will be a Christmas story about when I was growing up in the 50’s.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n

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Has Christmas really come and gone already?\u00a0 Wasn’t it just a few days ago I was putting out the pumpkins for Autumn and decorating for that season?\u00a0 Seems that when October gets here the days just fly toward December 25th.\u00a0 I don’t know why, but for me they do.\u00a0 It’s all a blur. I finally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,5,22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-memories","category-fun-times","category-home-and-family","category-home-decor","category-quilting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3863,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}