{"id":287,"date":"2005-12-03T15:15:57","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T22:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=287"},"modified":"2005-12-03T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T22:15:57","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been terribly busy and not getting much accomplished &#8211; at least that&#8217;s what it feels like!  However, we did get a new tree.  We&#8217;ve done artificial since our Seminary years &#8211; don&#8217;t really need to anymore, but it saves us the cost of a tree!  We set it up on Thursday and Friday night DH and the boys put on all our decorations.  Some of our favorites are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first ornament Dh and I bought together\n<li>All the ornaments the boys have made\n<li>All the ornaments commemorating the boys births or adoptions\n<li>The half oyster shell with an angel painted in it &#8211; to remind of us of our years on the coast.\n<li>The globe that a Pastor&#8217;s Wife gave me to thank me for my ministry that she said &#8220;reached all over the World&#8221;.\n<li>The Fish that I got from another PW.\n<li>The Flying Pig &#8211; it makes me smile everytime I see it.\n<li>The old, ugly plastic ornaments that were my Grandma &amp; Grandpa&#8217;s &#8211; they have a piece that twirl when placed over a light.  They might be ugly but I love them all the same!\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, I know there are more, but I can&#8217;t think of them. We don&#8217;t have a fancy tree &#8211; but we have a great memory tree!  All our ornaments have a special memory or a special person we received them from!  <\/p>\n<p>But, of course, anytime we go down memory lane, I&#8217;m a mess.  So I helped very little and cried very much!  Oh well&#8230;it gave the boys a chance to practice their skills of mercy and love.<\/p>\n<p>I finished the Christmas knitting I was doing &#8211; and now I&#8217;m trying to talk myself out of taking on more!  lol  I want to post pics of what I knit &#8211; but I think the giftees read my blog &#8211; so I&#8217;ll post them later! I&#8217;m soooooo proud of it though!  Just you wait until you see how I stretched myself!  I never thought I could really do it &#8211; and I did it!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Well, Dh is at Christmas practice and the boys are too quiet, I&#8217;d better get off here and go see what&#8217;s up!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=287\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2F%3Fp%3D287&#038;media=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F10%2Fcropped-poppy-150x150.jpg&#038;description=Catching%20up\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=287\" data-text=\"Catching up\" data-via=\"Knitnmom\" >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a class=\"tumblr-share-button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/share\" data-title=\"Catching up\" data-content=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=287\" title=\"Share on Tumblr\"data-posttype=\"link\">Share on Tumblr<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button\" href=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=287\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\" ><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;width:150px;\"><ul style=\"background-image:none;\"><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Catching%20up&body=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2F%3Fp%3D287&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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I'm dying....and I never lived to see Paris!\" DH laughed and asked where he had heard such a phrase but, of course, there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family Life&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}