{"id":12154,"date":"2011-01-05T14:15:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T18:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=12154"},"modified":"2012-05-11T12:13:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T16:13:51","slug":"i-cry-when-i-take-the-tree-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/i-cry-when-i-take-the-tree-down\/","title":{"rendered":"I Cry When I Take the Tree Down…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, not re<\/em>ally.<\/p>\n

Generally speaking, I step into my living room on December 26th and want to rip down that 13 foot fir down faster than you say “figgy pudding.”\u00a0\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong. I am all in<\/em><\/strong> when it’s Christmas. I LOVE<\/strong><\/em> Christmas…but\u00a0when it’s over – I’m\u00a0 over it.<\/p>\n

Until this year….<\/p>\n

this year was different<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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This Christmas was magic.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t know if it was my kids age.\u00a0 They are at an age where it is so easy to believe.<\/p>\n

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…or just how sometimes when you haven’t had the smoothest of\u00a0years – you really appreciate what matters most.<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Family<\/p>\n

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I closed my store for most of the month of December and I just enjoyed the season.\u00a0\u00a0 I have to say it was worth it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So reluctantly, I am putting the Christmas Tree away today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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So I find myself (the eternal ‘on-to-the-next-thing- girl) in an unexpected place.\u00a0 I keep saying, “Loralee, you’ve got to get into the New Year! It’s time to go forward<\/em>!”\u00a0\u00a0 But inside, I am thinking, “Yes, but the past has been beautiful as well.\u00a0 It was a beautiful Christmas<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Here is to hoping that the New Year brings as much beauty as this past December!<\/p>\n

Best,
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Okay, not really. Generally speaking, I step into my living room on December 26th and want to rip down that 13 foot fir down faster than you say “figgy pudding.”\u00a0\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong. I am all in when it’s Christmas. I LOVE Christmas…but\u00a0when it’s over – I’m\u00a0 over it. Until this year…. this year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,1051],"tags":[1694,1696,1695,1697],"class_list":["post-12154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-holidays-parties","tag-christmas-2","tag-christmas-card-collections","tag-christmas-cards","tag-christmas-feelings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}