{"id":663,"date":"2014-01-03T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/?p=663"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:44:49","slug":"my-moms-christmas-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/2014\/01\/my-moms-christmas-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mom’s Christmas Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Swanson<\/a>Christmas time at my mom and dad’s house is always so magical. My mom decorates everything with such detail! And occasionally the weather cooperates too, and we are treated with a beautiful Christmas inside and outside of the house!<\/p>\n

\"Swanson<\/a>My mom organizes her decorations by theme and color, and going through her house you move through various scenes of Christmas!<\/p>\n

\"Swanson<\/a>Starting at the front door, you’ll notice the beautiful garland on the stairs!<\/p>\n

\"Swanson<\/a>You’ll see Santas on the piano!<\/p>\n

\"Swanson<\/a>There’s a nativity on the stereo cabinet.<\/p>\n

\"Swanson<\/a>She even decorates the flowers on her hutch! Here we also see scenes of music, with the treble clef on the wall (it’s always there) and the angels on the hutch!<\/p>\n

\"Swanson<\/a>The whole room is decorated and magical!<\/p>\n

In the kitchen, we find scenes of delicious Christmas treats: there are gingerbread men and a cooking Mr. and Mrs. Claus, pictures of my brothers and I as children making Christmas cookies, and a Christmas tree filled with kitchen themed ornaments and garland!<\/p>\n

\"Swanson\"Swanson<\/a>A collection of gingerbread men keep Mom company by the kitchen sink.<\/p>\n

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Ornaments on the kitchen’s Christmas tree are things like cookies, candy, and tea!<\/p>\n

Then downstairs, we find a winter wonderland!<\/p>\n

\"Swanson<\/a> \"Swanson<\/a>The tree is full of snowflakes, snowmen and other winter items!<\/p>\n

\"Swanson<\/a>Above the TV is a display of snowmen!<\/p>\n

\"Swanson<\/a>The fireplace is decorated too – there’s even a Rudolf ready to guide the way through all the snow!<\/p>\n

Even the bathroom in the basement is decorated with snowmen!<\/p>\n

\"Swanson<\/a>\"Swanson<\/a>Thanks to my mom for making Christmas so beautiful and magical. Even though my brothers and I are all grown up, we can still go to Mom & Dad’s and experience the wonder of Christmas like kids again.<\/p>\n

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Christmas time at my mom and dad’s house is always so magical. My mom decorates everything with such detail! And occasionally the weather cooperates too, and we are treated with a beautiful Christmas inside and outside of the house! My mom organizes her decorations by theme and color, and going through her house you move […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}