{"id":1395,"date":"2009-12-12T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T15:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2009-12-12T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T15:34:41","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/archives\/1395","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so, it&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here!\u00a0 we finally got our tree this week.\u00a0\u00a0i was thinking we were going to have to skip a tree this year, but husband really wanted to make it work.\u00a0 after all, he is right &#8211; it does not really feel like Christmas without it.\u00a0 we&#8217;ve been so busy with work lately that we&#8217;ve been putting in some really late hours.\u00a0 i just figured if we did not have it by last weekend, then we should probably skip it.\u00a0 then thursday night i got a hair 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