{"id":1975,"date":"2013-12-18T12:28:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2013-12-18T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:28:46","slug":"was-that-the-doorbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/18\/was-that-the-doorbell\/","title":{"rendered":"Was that the Doorbell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/heartofthematteronline.com\/was-that-the-doorbell\/\">http:\/\/heartofthematteronline.com\/was-that-the-doorbell\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My second favorite Christmas tradition is our \u201cChristmas Eve Box\u201c. Sometime during the evening of Christmas Eve\u2026our doorbell rings\u00a0(a fast neighbor\u2026who can run baby run)\u2026we let our kids run to the door\u2026there on the step is a\u00a0box. It has stickers, stamps and looks like it has traveled far..maybe even across the\u00a0ocean!<\/p>\n<p>There is a letter attached\u2026usually in a \u201cpoem\u201d talking to the kids about their year, blessings upon them for the upcoming year and wishing them a Christmas to remember! It is signed by only saying \u2026\u201dWishing you a White Christmas\u201c! Now my girls still are very unsure who this is from\u2026my son, I think knows but I won\u2019t give in when he asks\u2026I act as surprised as the kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ioeSZf1Fglc\/SR9_dAht46I\/AAAAAAAAA_8\/vrLwMzdutow\/s1600-h\/33175_S74.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269070225381122978\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ioeSZf1Fglc\/SR9_dAht46I\/AAAAAAAAA_8\/vrLwMzdutow\/s320\/33175_S74.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><!--more--><\/a>In the box, there are their\u00a0Christmas pajamas\u00a0to wear that<\/p>\n<p>night, a\u00a0Christmas book for each child,a\u00a0DVD (usually Christmas but not\u00a0always)<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269070172103562402\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ioeSZf1Fglc\/SR9_Z6DW1KI\/AAAAAAAAA_0\/GQsFBsroPZg\/s320\/71EX76BBV7L._SL110_.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0and their own\u00a0Christmas ornament\u00a0with the year. The ornament usually represents something the child likes or has done that year. It is very special to them and they each have their own collection started.<\/p>\n<p>Traditions are a special way to\u00a0see Christmas in the eyes of your children\u2026\u00a0something to give them special memories. It doesn\u2019t have to be the biggest Christmas tree in the \u201clot\u201d or the finest Christmas china on the table. I have found with my own kids they usually don\u2019t even remember what they received the year before but they can recall minute by minute these simple traditions!Its better than anything you can wrap up in a bow!<\/p>\n<p>Debbie http:\/\/shellinyourpocket.blogspot.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from\u00a0http:\/\/heartofthematteronline.com\/was-that-the-doorbell\/ My second favorite Christmas tradition is our \u201cChristmas Eve Box\u201c. Sometime during the evening of Christmas Eve\u2026our doorbell rings\u00a0(a fast neighbor\u2026who can run baby run)\u2026we let our kids run to the door\u2026there on the step is a\u00a0box. It has stickers, stamps and looks like it has traveled far..maybe even across the\u00a0ocean! There is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}