{"id":1204,"date":"2008-12-18T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T22:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.wordpress.com\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2008-12-18T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T22:01:35","slug":"all-i-want-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"All I want for Christmas&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, as I was typing that title, I realized that I haven&#8217;t uploaded either of the girls&#8217; Christmas program videos yet.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh&#8230;.Must. Do. That.<\/p>\n<p>And in case you are wondering how my stream of consciousness writing got me from that to this &#8211; Emma&#8217;s class sang &#8220;All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.&#8221;\u00a0 Ahhh, see? I haven&#8217;t completely lost my mind. Yet.<\/p>\n<p>Anywho&#8230;J. asked me what I wanted for Christmas a few weeks ago and I told him I really just wanted to go back to Michigan to see my sister and family. Let the girls soak up some cousin love for a bit, they are clearly in need of a little.<\/p>\n<p>So, my Christmas present is indeed plane tickets, we leave the day after Christmas. So we get to have three different Christmases &#8211; a week of Christmases! That is a great gift if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>Last night we were making our lists (and checking it twice, ha!) of things I needed to get today and I was looking over J.&#8217;s shoulder at his very logical, engineer-like spreadsheet of gift giving. I mean, it is color-coded, I kid you not!<\/p>\n<p>J: <em>Hey! You aren&#8217;t supposed to look at this, I have presents for you on it.<\/em><br \/>\nC: <em>You already got me my present. The plane tickets so I could see my sister that was supposed to be my gift.<\/em><br \/>\nJ: <em>Maybe I got you something else, like glasses. So you could<\/em> <strong>see<\/strong> <em>your sister. Or binoculars&#8230;or a telescope! You could <\/em><strong>see<\/strong><em> her with that!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ha. Ha. Ha. HiLARious! See what I&#8217;ve got to work with here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, as I was typing that title, I realized that I haven&#8217;t uploaded either of the girls&#8217; Christmas program videos yet. Sigh&#8230;.Must. Do. That. And in case you are wondering how my stream of consciousness writing got me from that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1204\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[68,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-stuff-out-of-the-mouth-of-my-babes","category-j"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-jq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}