{"id":7332,"date":"2017-12-28T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T17:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/?p=7332"},"modified":"2017-12-28T09:53:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T17:53:59","slug":"a-very-milly-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/?p=7332","title":{"rendered":"A Very Milly Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having the holidays off for maternity leave is pretty fabulous. Right now I’ve got a sweet sleeping babe right next to me, a delicious cup of coffee in a Christmas mug, and Friends on TV. (I really should put on a Christmas movie… oh well!) Since this is Milly’s first Christmas, I’ve made it my mission to soak up all that this season has to offer with a Christmas countdown! Each day in December we’ve been doing something festive in anticipation for our favorite holiday. Sure, she won’t remember this, but\u00a0I will.\u00a0<\/em>And I live for this kind of thing!<\/p>\n

^^^ I totally meant to post that\u00a0before\u00a0<\/em>Christmas. But, holy smokes the holidays are such a busy time for us!\u00a0What a magical first Christmas season with my little sidekick this has been! I’ll just have to share our countdown now. :)\u00a0If you follow me on Instagram (kayla_wachtel), I shared what we did on my story. I can’t wait for the years when she can do all the fun stuff with me! (Except that I really can wait. Time, don’t go any faster!!)<\/p>\n

Christmas Vacation + eggnog
\ntry a new festive cocktail
\nbuy our annual Christmas ornaments
\nWVHS Holiday Brunch at Pybus
\nLove Actually + prosecco
\ncoffee date in our Christmas PJs
\nbake a new festive treat
\ndrive and look at Christmas lights
\nChristmas shopping
\ngive an anonymous thank you card to the house with awesome Christmas lights
\nHome Alone + ice cream
\nread Christmas books
\nmake cookies for Santa
\nThe Grinch + white chocolate peppermint popcorn
\nmy company Christmas party
\nA Christmas Story + hot chocolate
\nread the Christmas story in the Bible
\nmake a hand print ornament
\nbake a holiday apple crisp
\nsend out Christmas cards
\nwrap presents
\nSNOW DAY!
\nsnuggles + Santa PJs
\ngo see Santa<\/p>\n

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I think the highlights of the season for us were all the snuggly mornings in our Christmas PJs (which we pretty much lived in), getting a snow day, supporting our local humane society at a holiday brunch, and my company Christmas party (which had an ugly sweater contest, tons of games and a dodgeball tournament… best Christmas party yet! Plus baby girl was SO GOOD – she loves to party.) I’m so happy to say I finally got my act together and sent out Christmas cards too!! It’s been a great month, and I’m sad to see it coming to an end. But I’ll leave you with this picture of my FAVORITE gift under the tree this year :)<\/p>\n

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I hope you had a PERFECT December!<\/p>\n

XO,
\nKayla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having the holidays off for maternity leave is pretty fabulous. Right now I’ve got a sweet sleeping babe right next to me, a delicious cup of coffee in a Christmas mug, and Friends on TV. (I really should put on a Christmas movie… oh well!) Since this is Milly’s first Christmas, I’ve made it my… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[26,45,121],"class_list":["post-7332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrate","category-misc","tag-christmas","tag-december","tag-motherhood","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42QGB-1Ug","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/3D25FC89-B2AB-4146-97AE-B0E130F1DE70.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7346,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions\/7346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}