{"id":12959,"date":"2010-02-28T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=12959"},"modified":"2011-08-18T04:13:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T08:13:59","slug":"just-because-ice-cream-bucks-free-printable-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/just-because-ice-cream-bucks-free-printable-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Because Ice Cream Bucks (free printable)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">When family lives far away, it can be difficult for grandparents to stay in touch with little ones. My mom and dad (aka Nana and Papa) have become pros at sending little things out of the blue to keep their distant-selves continually present in my children&#8217;s lives. Recently, &#8220;Papa&#8221; (read: Nana) made these adorable <em>Just Because Ice Cream Bucks<\/em> and sent them in the mail to my munchkins!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Judging by my kids&#8217; reaction, you would have thought they just won a lifetime supply of sundaes, pizza, and Dora the Explorer. All of which they get plenty of, by the way.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Their Alvin, Theodore, and Simon voices chanted &#8220;<strong>Ice Cream!!! ICE CREAM!!! ICE CREAM!!!!!<\/strong>&#8221; until there was no way I wasn&#8217;t strapping them in the car and driving them 60 mph to the nearest creamery.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Needless to say, it was fun and the kids loved it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/nffIMG_8984.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10443\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/nffIMG_8984.jpg\" title=\"nffIMG_8984\" width=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/nffIMG_8984.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/nffIMG_8984-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">The other reason why I love these little bucks is because it gives you an opportunity to go and do something special with your child. My little Vienna and I ran to the creamery together the other day with our bucks in hand. It was a fun excuse to spend quality time &#8211; just me and her.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/NFFJustbecausebucks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10442\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/NFFJustbecausebucks.jpg\" title=\"NFFJustbecausebucks\" width=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/NFFJustbecausebucks.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/NFFJustbecausebucks-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">So I have kifed my mom&#8217;s idea and made a few of my own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/NoFussFabulousIceCreamTickets.pdf\">Just Because Ice Cream Bucks <\/a>to share! You can<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/NoFussFabulousIceCreamTickets.pdf\"> download and print them here<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been pulling them out and leaving them on my children&#8217;s beds when they have done something sweet or just when they needed a little cheering up. It&#8217;s more than an easy thing that leaves an imprint on their day.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/nffbucks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10444\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/nffbucks.jpg\" title=\"nffbucks\" width=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/nffbucks.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/nffbucks-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Hope you have as much fun using them as I have!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Blog to you soon, <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mylivesignature.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/signatures.mylivesignature.com\/54487\/213\/1B769B0C9152F3A8AEB6C0B8BFF46123.png\" style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">P.S. Mom, thanks for the idea! You are my greatest inspiration!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When family lives far away, it can be difficult for grandparents to stay in touch with little ones. My mom and dad (aka Nana and Papa) have become pros at sending little things out of the blue to keep their distant-selves continually present in my children&#8217;s lives. Recently, &#8220;Papa&#8221; (read: Nana) made these adorable Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorialsrecipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959","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=12959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}