{"id":10941,"date":"2011-12-20T08:56:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=8478"},"modified":"2011-12-26T16:52:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T21:52:24","slug":"meeting-up-with-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/meeting-up-with-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting up with Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my gosh&#8230; can you believe that there is only 5 days until Christmas!! \u00a0I, Rebecca, am not ready! There are so many things I want to get done with kiddo before Christmas and I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m going to make it&#8230; we might have a New Year&#8217;s Gingerbread House&#8230; haha. \u00a0However, one thing we have accomplished is seeing Santa.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I should add that as a child, I wasn&#8217;t really allowed to believe in Santa&#8230; my mom tried to have some magic around the day, Santa would come while we were at church on Christmas Eve. We weren&#8217;t allowed to have any Santa decorations and if I went to see Santa, it might have been once when I was a really little kid. Now that I have a child, Santa still doesn&#8217;t pay a huge part of our celebrations&#8230; he isn&#8217;t the reason for our season&#8230; however, we do elf on the shelf and go to see Santa. \u00a0My four year old is way too logical for his age, and he really doesn&#8217;t understand who this guy is and why he wants to know about what kiddo wants for Christmas. In fact, he asked Santa for socks and underwear&#8230; haha!<\/p>\n<p>For the last three years, our tradition has been to go down to the bowling alley to have breakfast with Santa in the bar area&#8230; screams Wisconsin, doesn&#8217;t it? haha \u00a0Actually, it&#8217;s a great event and I think that the parents and grandparents look forward to this more than kiddo does&#8230; for some crazy price of $5 per person, kiddo gets to sit on Santa&#8217;s lap and have a professional photo taken (which we get a free copy), a hot breakfast, a goody bag, and a free game of bowling. \u00a0It really is a fun time&#8230; and lots of photos are taken. \ud83d\ude42 Which I still need to scrap&#8230; what has happened to this month??? I&#8217;ll give last year&#8217;s photo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"christmas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppecommunity.com\/gallery\/data\/516\/2010_12_11-Jake-and-santa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With that&#8230; I still have a few things I need to get done for the exciting things coming to the Sweet Shoppe in the New Year&#8230; so, I&#8217;m going end with wishing you all a very\u00a0Merry Christmas&#8230; and Happy Hanukkah to those that celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>{{hugs}}<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca aka mamabee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my gosh&#8230; can you believe that there is only 5 days until Christmas!! \u00a0I, Rebecca, am not ready! There are so many things I want to get done with kiddo before Christmas and I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m going to make it&#8230; we might have a New Year&#8217;s Gingerbread House&#8230; haha. \u00a0However, one thing we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10957,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions\/10957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}