{"id":27224,"date":"2018-12-16T12:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T12:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=27224"},"modified":"2018-12-16T12:40:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T12:40:28","slug":"christmas-has-come-to-our-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=27224","title":{"rendered":"Christmas has come to our house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have had to cater for a function each weekend over the last few weeks so there had been no time to decorate the house for Christmas. I spent any spare moments writing and posting cards as getting them posted in time was my priority.<\/p>\n<p>However we had a free weekend this week so it was time to swing into action. Yesterday morning we went out and bought a tree and in the afternoon we put the decorations up and I decorated the tree.<\/p>\n<p>I am really pleased with it as it was reasonably priced and is a traditional (drop the needles) tree which we prefer because of the narrower shape.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27248\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=27248\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27248\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27248\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/our-christmas-tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/our-christmas-tree.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/our-christmas-tree-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/our-christmas-tree-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Christmas tree<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_27249\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=27249\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27249\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27249\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27249\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/decorated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/decorated.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/decorated-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/decorated-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close up<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_27250\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=27250\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27250\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27250\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/close-up.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/close-up.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/close-up-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/close-up-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And again<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At last I feel we are almost ready for Christmas. I just have a little more present buying to do and then wrapping and then lastly it will be the food shopping.<\/p>\n<p>On different days we will be having both sides of the family over with assorted grandchildren, for the full Christmas dinner, so it will be a busy time but it will be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had to cater for a function each weekend over the last few weeks so there had been no time to decorate the house for Christmas. 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