{"id":667,"date":"2007-09-17T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T03:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2007\/09\/17\/the-joy-of-boxes\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T03:17:09","slug":"the-joy-of-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"The joy of boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ordered some snacks from Amazon the other day when they were on a major sale (some of these<\/a> and some of these<\/a>). Cases of those, actually.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And for a screaming deal, of course.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 With free shipping.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 So, today there were two Large boxes from Amazon on the porch for me.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t you just love getting packages in the mail?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It’s so exciting!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a knock on the door, and the kids RUSH feverishly to see who it is that would want to come and visit us at OUR house, and then when there’s nobody there and you think perhaps some little kid is just out doorbell ditching; you look down and see a box there.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Oh the Joy of the brown box!<\/p>\n

And the fun doesn’t end there.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 You then get to Open the box, and see what wonderful thing you have ordered.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe, just maybe, someone has sent you something.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 A surprise from a loved one far away.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, the anticipation!<\/p>\n

After you open the box to find your purchase, or your present or what have you, there’s still more fun to be had with the box it’s-self.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 There may be packaging material to rifle through.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes there’s even bubble wrap, which is actually a gift by within a gift.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Hours of fun and enjoyment can come from stomping on the bubble wrap.<\/p>\n

And the BOX!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 What can you do with the box?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It could be an airplane, a car, a bus, or any number of transportation themed ideas for a little boy.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 You could use it for magic tricks, disappearing acts,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 or a much loved game of “what’s in the box?”.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Tonight I think John may have played all those games with those two boxes.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 He was in the box, under the box, on top of the box, he put things in the box, around the box, etc.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Oh the joy of boxes.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And if mommy doesn’t get sick of them and throw them out, we’ll get to do it all again tomorrow.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And when we get hungry, don’t forget–
\nwe have those tasty snacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ordered some snacks from Amazon the other day when they were on a major sale (some of these and some of these). Cases of those, actually.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And for a screaming deal, of course.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 With free shipping.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 So, today there were two Large boxes from Amazon on the porch for me.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t you just love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"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=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}