{"id":10156,"date":"2016-12-25T20:33:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T01:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=10156"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:43:44","slug":"the-12-gifts-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=10156","title":{"rendered":"The 12 gifts of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom and I don’t usually buy each other presents\u00a0for Christmas. But today I got at least a dozen gifts. Wahoo! What a haul!<\/p>\n

The first gift\u00a0came at 7 a.m. when I woke up and got out of bed. I didn’t die<\/a> 13 months ago, but even better, my brain is working again<\/a>. That’s a gift I wasn’t so sure of, a year ago.<\/p>\n

The second gift was that I looked over and there was Tom – alive, whole, able to walk and talk and laugh. Stroke<\/a> didn’t kill him, either.<\/p>\n

The third gift was that it\u00a0was 67 degrees and we’ve had days with good solid rains. I’ll take a green Christmas over a white Christmas – or an orange Christmas<\/a>\u00a0for that matter – anytime.<\/p>\n

The fourth gift was that we talked to Richard<\/a>, like we do each Sunday. Tom has a whole new family and I love them, and I especially love talking with Richard because it’s like having another Tom around.<\/p>\n

I got the other eight\u00a0gifts in the afternoon. We took a walk.<\/p>\n

First I got a set\u00a0of paintbrushes<\/p>\n

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mostly filberts but a few fan brushes too,<\/p>\n

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and a big new paint set with 12\u00a0colors\u00a0– just squint<\/p>\n

so that you can count them all…<\/p>\n

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I got a really crazy set of bendy Tinkertoys that connect\u00a0into a massive network.<\/p>\n

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I got a whole toy village with a bunch of little houses hanging from a cliff –<\/p>\n

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and I got a whole troupe\u00a0of dancers – look at them pirouette!<\/p>\n

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I got a wooden monkey<\/p>\n

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and his fur is\u00a0really soft.<\/p>\n

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I got a big bag of nuts, yum!<\/p>\n

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And some sticky gumdrops too!<\/p>\n

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All my gifts\u00a0were tied up with really pretty curly ribbon.<\/p>\n

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Hope you got as many cool\u00a0gifts as I did!<\/p>\n

Today’s penny is a 2000. That was my first Christmas with Tom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom and I don’t usually buy each other presents\u00a0for Christmas. But today I got at least a dozen gifts. Wahoo! What a haul! The first gift\u00a0came at 7 a.m. when I woke up and got out of bed. I didn’t die 13 months ago, but even better, my brain is working again. That’s a gift … read more The 12 gifts of Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[84,82,121,521,350,1363,179,20],"class_list":["post-10156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-84","tag-beauty","tag-christmas","tag-gifts","tag-holiday","tag-mindfulness","tag-nature","tag-tom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10183,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions\/10183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}