{"id":20972,"date":"2021-12-25T19:51:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T02:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=20972"},"modified":"2021-12-26T07:56:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:56:32","slug":"oscars-first-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2021\/12\/oscars-first-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar’s First Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ha … I don’t know that Oscar or Emmett had any idea that it was a holiday other than if they picked up on my excitement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, Christmas is special to me and I have little things that I do to make Christmas Eve and Christmas Day fun, memorable and meaningful to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No presents. A lot of great food! Beautiful Christmas music!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was special about Oscar’s First Christmas is that in 5 weeks with Emmett and me, how well he has adapted and how well he and Emmett are getting along. They play: chase and hide and seek, wrestle … kind of a footsie wrestle and generally have a great time. It is about equal who starts the games! I so hoped that they would play like this. It is great for both of them physically and mentally. The games exercise their brains and their bodies. I felt this was missing when it was just Emmett and me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love having a dog and a cat. The relationships with me are unique and special. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this Christmas, Oscar’s First Christmas, was special in its celebration of our new family of three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I always hope to be able to snowshoe on Christmas Day … it looked like it might happen and I was prepared!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christmas Eve Day was a bit ugly snow-wise, but it seemed to be getting colder and there were occasional flurries, so I had high hopes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afternoon nap above and then it was Christmas Eve with a cozy fire …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And all settled down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a supper treat of homemade shrimp egg rolls … first time making them. They were wonderful and just perfect to eat in the quiet house with outside lights on so I could see if it started snowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After an early evening nap, Emmett and I took a moonlight walk at midnight … no new snow and it was still 30F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before nighttime walks, I always think I don’t want to go out, but after I get all the stuff on and get outside in the fresh air, I love it and last night we took an extra loop to stay out a bit longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is especially nice when there is at least a little snow and moonlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christmas morning belly rub for Emmett … play time for Oscar. It was a lucky “over the head” shot to get them both. Christmas Eve Day, I gave it a go for a posed photo, but had no luck getting all of us, so this has to do :)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No new snow, but a beautiful morning …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After walk treats! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My treat: Christmas breakfast … extra bacon!! Emmett and Oscar near and Christmas music streaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still no new snow, but Emmett and I had a nice long walk on the state land … in sunshine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christmas afternoon nap time … on the office computer streaming music is playing with a fire visual :)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oscar’s first Christmas was wonderful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ha … I don’t know that Oscar or Emmett had any idea that it was a holiday other than if they picked up on my excitement. But, Christmas is special to me and I have little things that I do to make Christmas Eve and Christmas Day fun, memorable and meaningful to me. No presents. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20989,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20972\/revisions\/20989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}