{"id":39585,"date":"2016-12-26T00:36:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T04:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=39585"},"modified":"2016-12-26T00:36:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T04:36:30","slug":"sunday-night-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2016\/12\/26\/sunday-night-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night – Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wonderful day.. Diane was up at 6.. i was up at 7.. and the boys slept till about 11.. That gave Diane and me plenty of time to get out for a run and get ready for a family Christmas .. The kids came down around 11 .. with the Sam lanterns burning.. .. \u00a0our family tradition.. \u00a0He dogs are as in to it as the kids are..<\/p>\n

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We had several themes.. Cooking stuff for gabe.. and warm work stuff for Max. He and his company are moving to Ellenville new york..<\/p>\n

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we broke several times to play pool.<\/p>\n

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I got a great book on cheese !..<\/p>\n

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and the boys got me some new MIG \u00a0welding gloves.. ties together with a chain.. (i have 2 left handed gloves.. and no right handed ones that I can find.. ).. this way I cant lose them !<\/p>\n

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Aroudn noon, our good freinds Barb and Jim came over..<\/p>\n

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Barb had painted this AMAZING picture of Sam for us. .. look at this !<\/p>\n

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Jim\u00a0and I looked like twins 1<\/p>\n

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We finished up our lazy Christmas around 4L30.. by 6 it was time to start cooking dinner.. we all\u00a0cooked together.. so much fun.. and such a great meal !<\/p>\n

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gene real tsao’s fish, garlic eggplant and rice.<\/p>\n

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first the Chanukah lights for night 2 !<\/p>\n

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After dinner we bundled up and headed out to do one of our other traditions.. We decorate a tree in the woods\u00a0every year for animals..<\/p>\n

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it was about 17 degrees.. but we were bundled up well.<\/p>\n

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we brought along mulled wine. Yum !<\/p>\n

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sam was with us as always..<\/p>\n

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We’re now all sitting together\u00a0\u00a0watching videos of Max’s first christmas.. Marcia had them copied to DVD for us.. They are so great to have !<\/p>\n

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really really nice day.. lots of love.. lots of laughs.. some tears.. at least from me.. Times like this make me really miss Sam eve more.<\/p>\n

I’m lucky and happy to have my family here..<\/p>\n

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Hope you all had a great day too !<\/p>\n

nite all nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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ps. One other thing that happened this evening is that an old picture of me with Bernie snaders went viral again on reddit.. tonight.. . pretty funny !\u00a0https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pics\/comments\/5k9c1b\/when_santa_is_star_struck_by_you_youre_doing\/?sort=new&st=ix5lb6mx&sh=ce8df8bd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wonderful day.. Diane was up at 6.. i was up at 7.. and the boys slept till about 11.. That gave Diane and me plenty of time to get out for a run and get ready for a family Christmas .. The kids came down around 11 .. with the Sam lanterns burning.. .. \u00a0our … Continue reading Sunday night – Christmas<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39685,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39585\/revisions\/39685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}