{"id":5994,"date":"2010-12-02T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T02:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5994"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:55:42","slug":"anticipation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/12\/02\/anticipation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anticipation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in this house! Bean is especially excited.<\/p>\n<p>Our tree (before the star topper was decorated):<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5216353663\/\" title=\"tree plus new tree skirt chosen by Bean by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4132\/5216353663_334940f64c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"tree plus new tree skirt chosen by Bean\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I made the star 25 years ago when I was broke, using tin foil and cardboard. Bean added glue and glitter!<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5227953044\/\" title=\"decorated star by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5083\/5227953044_18a29705fa.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"decorated star\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Santa&#8217;s little elf can&#8217;t wait for Christmas. Every gift I wrap that she gets her hands on goes under the tree.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5227979808\/\" title=\"under the tree by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4106\/5227979808_96e6dbfab1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" alt=\"under the tree\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I glued the little wood spoons that come with sherbet cups. Then Bean painted both sides, and put glue on, and then put the sequins and star on (both sides).<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5227356311\/\" title=\"ornament 2010 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5090\/5227356311_6f1f19c39e.jpg\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" alt=\"ornament 2010\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And our stockings are hung by the chimney with care.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5216937436\/\" title=\"stockings hung by the chimney by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4106\/5216937436_f2d12745ce.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" alt=\"stockings hung by the chimney\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Our advent calendar (which now has two ornaments stuck to it).<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5216939668\/\" title=\"advent calendar by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5207\/5216939668_cc4c47b48f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"advent calendar\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And yesterday, Bean said, &#8220;Santa Claus makes special love so I feel happy in my heart and my heart feels love for everyone, and when they feel my big love I give them hugs and kisses.&#8221; Of course, she also wants a zillion toys from him too, but I think she understands the essence of the holiday. We read her picture books about the baby Jesus too, so she will understand the correlating story about this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about celebrating light and love this time of year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in this house! Bean is especially excited. Our tree (before the star topper was decorated): I made the star 25 years ago when I was broke, using tin foil and cardboard. Bean added glue and glitter! Santa&#8217;s little elf can&#8217;t wait for Christmas. Every gift I wrap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,25,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-arts","category-education","category-motherhood","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13558,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions\/13558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}