{"id":508,"date":"2023-12-24T18:33:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2023-12-24T18:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T18:33:06","slug":"advent-day-24-hot-chocolate-and-luminary-night-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/24\/advent-day-24-hot-chocolate-and-luminary-night-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Day 24 &#8211; Hot Chocolate and Luminary Night Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s the day before Christmas &#8211; Merry Christmas Eve!  We are all still working on getting healthy here and have a fairly low-key day planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning the elf put a star on the top of the tree.  I thought the kids would find this funny.  They keep asking me where the tree topper star is, and the truth is &#8211; I have no idea.  It&#8217;s deep in a box somewhere and I tried to find it, but there is only so much time I&#8217;m going to dedicate to finding a tree ornament.  So my husband moved one of the existing start ornaments to the top of the tree with the elf.  It will work for this year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9685-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"elf on the shelf tree topper\" class=\"wp-image-503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9685-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9685-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9685-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9685-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9685-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight the grandparents will come over, we will make hot chocolate and go outside for a walk around the neighbourhood.  Everyone in the neighbourhood will light candles and place them in white paper bags outside their houses.  The community all comes out to walk around and enjoy the lights.  It&#8217;s a beautiful, peaceful way to celebrate Christmas Eve.  Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_0486-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Luminary night walk\" class=\"wp-image-504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_0486-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_0486-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_0486-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_0486-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_0486.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the day before Christmas &#8211; Merry Christmas Eve! We are all still working on getting healthy here and have a fairly low-key day planned. This morning the elf put a star on the top of the tree. I thought the kids would find this funny. They keep asking me where the tree topper star &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/24\/advent-day-24-hot-chocolate-and-luminary-night-walk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Day 24 &#8211; Hot Chocolate and Luminary Night Walk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,6,62,8],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-activityadvent","tag-kidsadvent","tag-luminarynightwalk","tag-mailegadvent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}