{"id":15152,"date":"2018-12-03T11:18:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15152"},"modified":"2018-12-22T17:44:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T21:44:51","slug":"making-progress-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15152","title":{"rendered":"Making Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far in Christmas prep:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Advent Calendar is mostly set up. I have enough small gifts, Christmas-themed books from the library, and &#8220;tickets&#8221; to get through the entire Advent season. I had planned to make a schedule to evenly space out the gifts and special events, but I ran out of time. That&#8217;s OK. Better to be flexible.<\/li>\n<li>The Christmas cards arrived. They turned out nicely.<\/li>\n<li>I ordered ornaments for me, my kids, and my hubby, plus a personalized ornament for my niece.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve made good progress on my annual photo album. Most of the photos are in, and most of the layouts look good. I&#8217;ll probably be able to finish it in time.<\/li>\n<li>I ordered new comforters and blankets for my parents to use while they&#8217;re here Christmas Eve, and I bought mints so I can put one on each of their pillows (as a joke). So, maybe this year there will be no crazy, last-minute scrounging for blankets on Christmas Eve as I&#8217;m trying to get everything else ready, too.<\/li>\n<li>I ordered a birthday gift for my niece, whose party is coming up soon. Because her birthday is so close to Christmas, I consider her birthday present to be part of my Christmas prep (but I also buy her a separate Christmas present, because I&#8217;m not one of <em>those<\/em> people).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still left to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del>Keep the Advent Calendar going; make time for all the activities it entails.<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Finish the photo album.<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Arrange for Charley the Elf&#8217;s arrival.<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Get a Christmas tree and decorate it.<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Create a board for displaying Christmas cards.<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Decorate the house.<\/del><\/li>\n<li>Clean the house.<\/li>\n<li><del>Christmas shopping.<\/del><\/li>\n<li>Tip our newspaper delivery person.<\/li>\n<li>Gifts for the kids&#8217; bus drivers\/teachers.<\/li>\n<li><del>Wish lists (to help our family members who don&#8217;t know what to get us)<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Plan a Christmas Day menu and shop for it.<\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far in Christmas prep: The Advent Calendar is mostly set up. I have enough small gifts, Christmas-themed books from the library, and &#8220;tickets&#8221; to get through the entire Advent season. I had planned to make a schedule to evenly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15152"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15213,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152\/revisions\/15213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}