{"id":1832,"date":"2013-12-24T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2013-12-12T18:57:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T01:57:06","slug":"12-days-of-christmas-memories-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"12 Days of Christmas Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 12: Christmas Eve<\/span><\/h1>\n

We are finally here!\u00a0 It’s Christmas Eve.\u00a0 I hope you have enjoyed taking a trip down memory lane with me.\u00a0 I saved the best continued memory for last.<\/p>\n

We have a Christmas Eve tradition that my family has done for as long as I can remember.\u00a0 I’ve carried it on in our family and I hope my kids do the same.\u00a0 We have a very special dinner.\u00a0 We call it Hobo dinners you might know it as tin foil dinners.\u00a0 Not very fancy is it? You see when Christ was born he was born into humble circumstances.\u00a0 So we celebrate in a way they would have celebrated the night of his birth.\u00a0 We cook our meal on an open fire.\u00a0 My family growing up used to cook it in the fireplace.\u00a0 That made for a very smoky home. We now have gas fireplaces so we cook it in the garden. The key is to use no electricity.\u00a0 When we eat we eat by candle light.\u00a0 All to remind us of our Savior’s humble birth. After dinner my little family will read the Christmas Story out of the bible.\u00a0 Then when we are done we go and look at Christmas lights.\u00a0 My parents always took us to look at lights after dinner on Christmas eve.\u00a0 I think that was to get us tired and ready for bed. I hope you enjoy whatever it is you do on Christmas Eve.\u00a0 Take a moment to remember why we celebrate Christmas.\u00a0 I’m thankful for a loving Heavenly Father who sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to Earth.\u00a0 It was a perfect gift of love.\u00a0 May you find peace this Christmas along with your own slice of Heaven.\u00a0 Merry Christmas everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 12: Christmas Eve We are finally here!\u00a0 It’s Christmas Eve.\u00a0 I hope you have enjoyed taking a trip down memory lane with me.\u00a0 I saved the best continued memory for last. We have a Christmas Eve tradition that my family has done for as long as I can remember.\u00a0 I’ve carried it on in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[3,41,44],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-family","tag-hoilday","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}