{"id":413,"date":"2005-12-24T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T20:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/christmas-eve\/"},"modified":"2005-12-24T15:01:28","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T20:01:28","slug":"christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No surprise- it has been crazy around here.  I&#8217;m not very good at maintaining my sanity around this time of year.  There is never enough time, everything seems out of control and this year seemed worse then usual.  I always look forward to the first week in January when life returns to normal.  Sort of.<\/p>\n<p>I went on a cookie making toot-  got to start with chocolate of course&#8230; and once I was in the cake decorating store there are so many fun things to look at.  I had to get these chenille fir trees- I am sure they&#8217;ll come in very useful for something!  and the flowers&#8230; they even sold edible glitter there!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/12:22:choc.jpg\" alt=\"choc\" \/><\/p>\n<p>here is my chocolate melting-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/12:22:melt.jpg\" alt=\"melt\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so I can dip the biscotti-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/12:22:biscotti.jpg\" alt=\"biscotti\" \/><\/p>\n<p>some classics- I have great admiration for people who make beautifully decorated sugar frosting cookies- not one of my skills!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/12:22:sugar.jpg\" alt=\"sugar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then I found an old issue of Fine Cooking that had some great recipes-<\/p>\n<p>lime nut-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/12:22:lime_01.jpg\" alt=\"lime\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and these spice cookies came out just like in the photo!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/12:22:spice.jpg\" alt=\"spice\" \/><\/p>\n<p>there are about 4 other types that I haven&#8217;t photographed.  These will be our family gifts.  I&#8217;ve also been knitting, sewing, cooking and cleaning- busy, busy busy.  Pictures of the projects will hopefully be posted after Christmas.  It will be very strange to have Christmas without <a href=\"http:\/\/real.cozy.org\/\">Eleanor<\/a> here.  She is experiencing the Holiday in the Southern Hemisphere.  WE MISS YOU!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Tonight we will have fondue from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loosetooth.com\/Recipes\/fondue.htm\">Brandy<\/a> at Loosetooth.  The perfect food for teenage boys.  Nothing like a new tradition- yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No surprise- it has been crazy around here. I&#8217;m not very good at maintaining my sanity around this time of year. There is never enough time, everything seems out of control and this year seemed worse then usual. I always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/christmas-eve\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}