{"id":799,"date":"2008-11-24T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/i-dont-know-how-this-happened-but-we\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:23:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:23:10","slug":"i-dont-know-how-this-happened-but-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/i-dont-know-how-this-happened-but-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Season is Finally Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how this happened, but we (the Bischoff&#8217;s) seem to be really on the ball with Christmas this year. Not only are we ready for an early celebration with the Birchwood Bischoff&#8217;s later this week, but the Texas gifts have been shipped and the tree is up. The apartment smells like pine trees and hot cocoa, and the stockings are hung!!<\/p>\n<p>Feels pretty great having it all done. Now comes the fun parts: relaxing with my little family, last-minute shopping for stocking stuffers, wrapping gifts for Daddy and Charlie (no, those aren&#8217;t the only gifts that will be under the tree!) and experiencing Christmas through the eyes of a 15 month old.<\/p>\n<p>The look on her face this morning when she saw her glittering tree was really something&#8230;..a wonderful reminder to have a spirit of childlike joy during this very special season!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_EzNMDgf7WQE\/SSr3uAoqhHI\/AAAAAAAABvs\/V-v_O6w-688\/s1600-h\/11-24-2008%2B068.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272298683607188594\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 239px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/11-24-2008-068.jpg?w=628&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_EzNMDgf7WQE\/SSr3tngCguI\/AAAAAAAABvk\/RrVF-l2LxG0\/s1600-h\/11-24-2008%2B067.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272298676860125922\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 239px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/11-24-2008-067.jpg?w=628&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_EzNMDgf7WQE\/SSr3thjrpzI\/AAAAAAAABvc\/LEvVxOQbSPg\/s1600-h\/11-24-2008%2B066.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272298675264792370\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 239px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/11-24-2008-066.jpg?w=628&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_EzNMDgf7WQE\/SSr3tOIChYI\/AAAAAAAABvU\/OA5fgr0JUDU\/s1600-h\/11-24-2008%2B065.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272298670048576898\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 239px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/11-24-2008-065.jpg?w=628&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how this happened, but we (the Bischoff&#8217;s) seem to be really on the ball with Christmas this year. Not only are we ready for an early celebration with the Birchwood Bischoff&#8217;s later this week, but the Texas gifts have been shipped and the tree is up. The apartment smells like pine trees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/11-24-2008-068.jpg?fit=320%2C239&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}