{"id":342,"date":"2010-12-26T12:48:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T19:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2010-12-26T12:48:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T19:48:44","slug":"happy-boxing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Happy Boxing Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not British, so I don&#8217;t exactly know what a Boxing Day is.  Punching each other after being on best behavior for Christmas?<\/p>\n<p>All I know is I finally get to go see Harry Potter!  Elsa won&#8217;t eat real food and she cries if anyone holds her other than me so I am very, very hesitant to leave her with a sitter (more for the sitter&#8217;s sake than her own).  Mike and I would have loved to go together, but sometimes things just don&#8217;t work out.  This morning Mike and I invented a dice game to see who would get to go to the movie today and who gets to go tomorrow.  I won!  Why didn&#8217;t we just flip a coin?  Because we had a dice handy, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Only problem is the movie doesn&#8217;t start until 6:30.  I won&#8217;t be home until super late, but I guess that&#8217;s ok.  We&#8217;ll see what I say tomorrow when it&#8217;s Mike&#8217;s turn to be out that late.<\/p>\n<p>We had a pretty fun Christmas, though I threatened to take away all of Erik&#8217;s Christmas gifts yesterday.  He got the two things he asked for the most (caster scooter and Wii Lego Harry Potter) but he wasn&#8217;t happy.  He wanted some Lego Road Trip thing (first I ever heard of it.  I don&#8217;t even know what it is) so was sad.  So damn frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>After Christmas dinner we always play a really fun present stealing game with lots of little tiny gifts.  One of the gifts was a fancy brownie mix that came with a short little wooden spoon.  At the end of the game it was mine and Erik asked me for the spoon.  He&#8217;s been hauling that spoon around every where, thanking me for it and telling me it is the best Christmas present he received.  Sometimes I wonder what&#8217;s wrong with that kid&#8217;s brain.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few pictures.  Click through if you really want to see millions of pictures of my kids.  Ha!  Actually, I am trying to be more selective.  I even did the unthinkable and deleted pictures if they were blurry or less than complimentary or duplicates that just were a smidgen less desirable than the other duplicate.  After years of parenting I think I have figured out that we don&#8217;t need 100 pictures of the same moment.  I just need a few pictures for a great photo book and it will be easier if I edit down as I go instead of trying to figure it out a year from now.  I found some old fashioned printed photo albums from when Erik was a baby the other day and realized that it was insane to have so many pictures of the exact same thing.  I also realized that children age you fast.  Mike and I looked so young!  And it was only six years ago.  Is it already time for a face-lift?  <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ramblequeen\/5293629433\/\" title=\"DSCI0014 by Ramble Queen, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5049\/5293629433_bce85ce794.jpg\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" alt=\"DSCI0014\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ramblequeen\/5294227568\/\" title=\"DSCI0072 by Ramble Queen, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5090\/5294227568_94645abb68.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"DSCI0072\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ramblequeen\/5293639845\/\" title=\"DSCI0117 by Ramble Queen, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5169\/5293639845_67689d0cea.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"DSCI0117\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ramblequeen\/5293644903\/\" title=\"DSCI0152 by Ramble Queen, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5170\/5293644903_ffb808a7d3.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"DSCI0152\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<center><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not British, so I don&#8217;t exactly know what a Boxing Day is. Punching each other after being on best behavior for Christmas? All I know is I finally get to go see Harry Potter! Elsa won&#8217;t eat real food and she cries if anyone holds her other than me so I am very, very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}