{"id":980,"date":"2009-12-24T22:03:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T08:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=980"},"modified":"2009-12-25T06:48:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T16:48:48","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091223-christmastree.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091223-christmastree.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had lots of gifts. Too many probably&#8230; but nothing that can&#8217;t be fixed with a little foodcoloring. Sadly Leilani got some, and behaved so badly, that we started to take away gifts.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091223-all-gifts.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091223-all-gifts.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you spoke to her on the phone she might have admitted to refusing her lunch, and not going to bed, but she  left out the things that happened in the 12 hours between (she went to bed around midnight, about 2 hours after I tried to go to bed the first time&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Today fortunately she was almost back to normal, just very hyper and wild. Here she had almost finished dressing dressed and looked very pretty.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091224-cm-l-dressing.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091224-cm-l-dressing.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the background you can see the gifts that actually stayed. The rest went to the garage and will stay there until next year. Leilani is very famous for stoically enduring punishments (I admired that many times on her) and suggested we give these gifts to the needy children&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091224-cm-family.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091224-cm-family.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her best friend at school gave her the dog for her birthday, she loves it.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091224-cm-leilani.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091224-cm-leilani.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opening presents.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091224-cm-opening.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091224-cm-opening.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Santa still brought her a bunch of gifts &#8211; just what she wanted: Light up candy&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/091224-cm-candylights.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/091224-cm-candylights.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But he also wrote her a letter, warning her there would be nothing next year unless she learned to behave better&#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/santaletter.jpg' height=\"613\" width=\"505\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We had lots of gifts. Too many probably&#8230; but nothing that can&#8217;t be fixed with a little foodcoloring. Sadly Leilani got some, and behaved so badly, that we started&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}