{"id":4408,"date":"2023-12-26T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","slug":"presents-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4408","title":{"rendered":"PRESENTS FOR ME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are a couple of my favorite Christmas gifts this year. On the left are two small bowls that Sarah made in her high school ceramics class and on the right is a vase that Hannah made in her college ceramics class.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beautiful treasures!<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225_235328-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2420\" height=\"2420\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This note from Samuel made my day, too. I love my conversations with all my kids as they get older and wiser &#8211; it&#8217;s good to hear Samuel say he enjoys them too.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe someday soon in the new year I will have reason to explain the party and harmonica references.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225_234825-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t mean to leave Caleb out &#8211; his gift is on its way. It&#8217;s a bluetooth speaker that will fit nicely with the aesthetic of my home office. So that&#8217;s very practical &#8211; and &#8220;practical&#8221; is right up there with &#8220;homemade&#8221; when it comes to my tastes in gifts.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All in all, it was a truly wonderful day even outside the gift-giving. Here are some random images from Christmas 2023:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225_101052-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"4000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dogs enjoyed Christmas as much as we did.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225_101244-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225_102604-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kids all did a great job in finding meaningful gifts for each other. And I love that some of those gifts were handmade works of art.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225_104242-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"4000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225_110724-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"4000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few gag gifts, too.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dinner at Grandma Trudy&#8217;s house with all the cousins and their kids.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225_172246-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225_182120-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then the chance to get a little one-on-one time with Grandma once all the other families left.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231225_211933-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple of my favorite Christmas gifts this year. On the left are two small bowls that Sarah made in her high school ceramics class and on the right is a vase that Hannah made in her college ceramics class. Beautiful treasures! This note from Samuel made my day, too. I love my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}