{"id":144,"date":"2005-12-31T19:51:07","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2005-12-31T19:54:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T01:54:26","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been an eventful day of playing with friends.<\/p>\n<p>I took the kids to the &#8220;Meet your Teacher&#8221; at church this morning, and we brought a friend home with Jenna.  A friend, who, altough cute, has a bit of a  phobia about the stairs.  Jenna told me &#8220;Maddie&#8217;s afraid of heights and wants you to carry her up the stairs.&#8221;  So, I told her there was nothing to be afraid of and I would hold her hand as we walked up the stairs.  She started crying and said she wanted to go home, so what was I to do?  I carried her up the stairs.  And I carried her back down the stairs when they wanted to come back down.  hum.<\/p>\n<p>I instructed the other kids to call around UNTIL they found someone to play with, so Megan found a friend to come over, and Natalie went back with the friend&#8217;s mom to her house to play with her friend, Cole had a friend come over, too.  Lots of kids, but less trouble.  <\/p>\n<p>Ryan cleaned the old fridge (I helped a little), loaded it up, and took it to his parents&#8217; house.  They will replace their 40 year old fridge in the garage with our 12 year old fridge.  It will seem like new to them.  <\/p>\n<p>I watched &#8220;Chicago&#8221; (it was a lot different than I remember it, seeing as I watched it in the hospital right after having had John), and cleaned up.  We had a lovely dinner of stuffed potato skins and pizza.  Now the kids are piled in Ryan&#8217;s office watching him play some kind of video games, and I&#8217;m blogging.  How exciting!  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll play games, pop popcorn and watch movies tonight, and have a very low key stay at home New Years.  I got tickets for us to go the New Year&#8217;s Eve celebration for youth up at the conference center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/events\/info\/0,8197,726-1-573,00.html\">&#8220;First Night for Youth&#8221;<\/a>, with Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband, but Ryan doesn&#8217;t want to truck &#8220;all the way up there&#8221;, deal with parking and traffic, and try to keep our kids well behaved for 3 hours (or however long they lasted).  So, we&#8217;ll have a casual night here.  Which is nice, too, since we have church at 9:00 in the morning and don&#8217;t really want to stay up late.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe someday we&#8217;ll be invited to a New Year&#8217;s Eve party, or have friends over ourselves, but for now, we&#8217;re content to stay home with the kids.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been an eventful day of playing with friends. I took the kids to the &#8220;Meet your Teacher&#8221; at church this morning, and we brought a friend home with Jenna. A friend, who, altough cute, has a bit of a phobia about the stairs. Jenna told me &#8220;Maddie&#8217;s afraid of heights and wants you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}