{"id":1205,"date":"2008-12-19T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.wordpress.com\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2008-12-19T01:00:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T09:00:36","slug":"baby-its-cold-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Baby, it&#8217;s cold outside!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best things about living in SoCal? The weather.<\/p>\n<p>One of the worst things about living in SoCal? The weather.<\/p>\n<p>I do miss the change of seasons sometimes. Well, for about a day or so, and then I&#8217;m back to loving the endlessly sunny days. But at Christmas time, it really is a little difficult to get in the mood when it is 70 degrees and you are buying gifts while dressed in t-shirts and flip flops.<\/p>\n<p>But this week&#8230;our weather has been glorious! Most people here are complaining that it is &#8220;soooo cold&#8221; and in their defense, it has been in the 40s most of the week. Yeah, yeah&#8230;I know many of you are saying, &#8220;oh, ah boo hoo hoo!&#8221; But when you don&#8217;t really own a winter coat anymore, almost freezing is pretty cold!<\/p>\n<p>But I am loving this weather. Breaking out the sweaters and the hot cocoa. Tuesday afternoon when it was pouring down rain, we popped some popcorn and put in a movie and cuddled up on the sofa. A perfect rainy, gloomy day. Plus the rain has rinsed off a few layers of dirt that covers everything the other 11 months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>This morning when I went out to get the papers it actually smelled like snow, you know that smell? And it did snow on our mountains &#8211; a lot, and pretty low down, too, which is unheard of this early in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, it just feels like Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>Plus how else can I torture my children by making them wear impossibly adorable hats like this?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"addie_hat.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/3120142120\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3138\/3120142120_4bd03cc21c.jpg\" alt=\"addie_hat.jpg\" width=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Addie calls this one her &#8220;reindeer hat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best things about living in SoCal? The weather. One of the worst things about living in SoCal? The weather. I do miss the change of seasons sometimes. Well, for about a day or so, and then I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1205\">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":[4,32,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addison","category-christmas","category-wacky-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-jr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205"}],"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=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}