{"id":6996,"date":"2012-12-16T22:15:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T22:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=6996"},"modified":"2012-12-16T22:26:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T22:26:03","slug":"festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/festivities\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Sunday night now, the kids are in bed, and we&#8217;ll be hitting the sack shortly I suspect.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a weekend of slow days and evening festivities. \u00a0Last night one of my two sewing clubs had a full blown 16-person (8 couples) sit-down dinner and party at the home of one of us. \u00a0And tonight Finnur&#8217;s parents invited us over for dinner for Finnur&#8217;s favorite food ever. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Since my health is still very blah, and sleeping at night isn&#8217;t going so well, I spent most of Saturday napping so that I would have some energy for the evening. \u00a0I made it almost to midnight before I had to call it a night. \u00a0Finnur stayed on since the party was literally further up the street from our house, and arrived home a few hours later. \u00a0Happily, the kids stayed at their grandparents&#8217; for the night.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7000\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7000\" alt=\"The sewing club ladies, being photographed by probably 8 different photographic devices (so nobody is looking the same way!)\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jolabod_saumo.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jolabod_saumo.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jolabod_saumo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sewing club ladies, being photographed by probably 8 different photographic devices (so nobody is looking the same way!)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today I ventured to the mall shortly after 11 am to do some browsing, and lasted for <em>one hour and 30 minutes<\/em> before I felt like I needed to lie down on the ground and nap. \u00a0Thankfully, I made it home without falling asleep at the wheel, and managed to nap a bit. \u00a0Having re-acquired some energy, we then did a little bit of tidying up, I installed a few more happy lights in the windows, and Finnur got out the drill to fasten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.is\/products\/1758\">two racks\/hangers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.is\/products\/15515\">a light<\/a> to various walls. \u00a0(Anna will now be able to actually see the notes she supposed to be playing on the piano&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow starts the last week before Christmas proper, and there are gifts to be bought and wrapped, a house to be straightened out, and health to be improved (hopefully!). \u00a0Just regaining my sense of smell would be a good start! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Sunday night now, the kids are in bed, and we&#8217;ll be hitting the sack shortly I suspect. 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