{"id":2247,"date":"2009-01-14T10:51:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T15:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2009-01-14T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T15:51:06","slug":"kids-and-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/kids-and-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids and Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, my husband and I learned to start buying mittens, hats and gloves at the dollar store. Why? Because they lose them. Incessantly. They just disappear. I don&#8217;t know how many times I ask them to stuff them in their coat sleeves or whatever. Just ><i>poof<\/i>< into thin air. (Same goes for socks too, by the way).\nYesterday, Berylla had a doctor's appointment. The temps this week are frigid (although it turned out not to be so bad yesterday) and I didn't want to bring her out unless she resembled a slightly fashionable Eskimo. Surprise, no pair of mittens in sight.  I found <a href=\"http:\/\/writemamawrite.typepad.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/mitten-tutorial.html\">this tutorial online<\/a> and some scraps of fleece leftover from the coat I made her and other fabric, and viola-45 minutes later-new mittens:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dani72\/3193867753\/\" title=\"Fifi needed mittens by daniella_caterina, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3367\/3193867753_bc08cc27e0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Fifi needed mittens\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGorbulas was most impressed!<br \/>\n<b>Gorbulas:<\/b> Mommy! Can you make me mittens like that?<br \/>\n<b>Me:<\/b> Sure, but I have to go to the fabric store and get fabric to make mittens for you. I just happened to have some scraps to make these for Berylla.<br \/>\n<b>Gorbulas:<\/b> Well, they don&#8217;t have to be special, you can use scraps for me too.<br \/>\n<b>Me:<\/b> Well, all I have right now is scraps with flowers all over them.<br \/>\n<b>Gorbulas:<\/b> Oh no! You&#8217;re right! I don&#8217;t want flower mittens at all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, my husband and I learned to start buying mittens, hats and gloves at the dollar store. Why? Because they lose them. Incessantly. They just disappear. I don&#8217;t know how many times I ask them to stuff them in their coat sleeves or whatever. Just >poof< into thin air. (Same goes&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/kids-and-winter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kids and Winter<\/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":[14,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-pansyiana","category-parenting-and-family-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}