{"id":5320,"date":"2013-01-08T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2013-01-07T23:23:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T06:23:03","slug":"thankful-tuesday-oh-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2013\/01\/thankful-tuesday-oh-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Tuesday: Oh the Holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><\/p>\n<p>(We traveled to Texas, Philadelphia, and made a little hop up to Connecticut. You know, keeping it simple.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christmas morning snow\u2026 in Texas<\/li>\n<li>Time with my grandmothers. (Ages 88 and 91)<\/li>\n<li>A night of hanging out in my brother\u2019s kitchen with both brothers, both sisters in law, and my husband! This is a feat very difficult to pull off and I\u2019m grateful for my husband who made that gathering happen<\/li>\n<li>How Brooksie has learned to make this face<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>My sweet nephew looking out for August during the candlelight service<\/li>\n<li>My husband\u2019s gift in the art of turkey roasting<\/li>\n<li>Morning coffee time with my mom, aunt and grandma<\/li>\n<li>Lots of cousins playing together in small spaces<\/li>\n<li>For the wild togetherness of my family in Amarillo, for the made-up games, family Wii Just Dance, and all the dogs everywhere (Even, apparently, on my dad\u2019s head in the picture below.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>For my nieces and nephews reading parts of the Christmas story on Christmas Eve and for E sharing her favorite Bible verses<\/li>\n<li>For the restful days at my mother in law\u2019s, for her soup, her salad, and her faithful attention to her grandsons<\/li>\n<li>For my mother in law\u2019s awesome fur coat. (Why, yes, that is my going-out outfit. Judge not.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>For books read in the middle of the day<\/li>\n<li>Lots of together time for August and Grama Sue (Chris\u2019 grandmother)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>For coffee dates with friends in Philly<\/li>\n<li>Family snow time in Connecticut and front yard sledding in the Philadelphia burbs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>A sweet introduction to Samantha, our new niece<\/li>\n<li>An amazing night of \u201cJust Dance\u201d-ing in the New Year with our Philly friends. (I\u2019m always grateful that we are welcomed back into our friendships there. When we\u2019re there, it feels like we\u2019ve continued to live our lives with those friends. That\u2019s such a gift.)<\/li>\n<li>Boys who miraculously have learned to sleep on airplanes and who adjust fairly well to time zone changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a good rest, a wonderful celebration of a 12 day trip and I\u2019m so so so grateful to be home again.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(We traveled to Texas, Philadelphia, and made a little hop up to Connecticut. You know, keeping it simple.) Christmas morning snow\u2026 in Texas Time with my grandmothers. (Ages 88 and 91) A night of hanging out in my brother\u2019s kitchen with both brothers, both sisters in law, and my husband! 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