{"id":12028,"date":"2016-11-30T21:19:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T02:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=12028"},"modified":"2016-11-30T21:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T02:19:52","slug":"lighting-the-house-with-love-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/30\/lighting-the-house-with-love-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting the House with Love for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing says &#8220;Christmastime&#8221; to me more than seeing holiday lights up all over. And while I don&#8217;t like how the holidays are creeping into the world earlier and earlier, when I&#8217;m ready for it (after Thanksgiving has been given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/thanksgiving-matters\/\">it&#8217;s proper time and recognition<\/a>!), it&#8217;s magical.<\/p>\n<p>One of my most favorite parts of getting ready for the holidays at home is putting our lights up. And I&#8217;m not just talking about a string here or there, I go all out!<\/p>\n<p>We put as many lights up outside as our house can handle (which, unfortunately, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/30\/our-new-halloween-house\/\">less than our old house<\/a> had room for!) And I fill every spot inside with lights as well.<\/p>\n<p>I love the glow of the holidays. I remember growing up and being enchanted by the Christmas lights reflecting on the fresh white snow. And while Florida doesn&#8217;t give us the snow of my childhood, I still love going to bed with the colored glow of the holiday lights inside and out.<\/p>\n<p>This year I joined up with Heather from <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeofahomeschoolmom.com\/2016\/11\/2016-abcs-of-homeschooling-through-the-holidays\/\">Life of a Homeschool Mom<\/a> and shared <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeofahomeschoolmom.com\/2016\/11\/lighting-your-home-with-love-this-holiday-season\/\">how we use lights to brighten our holiday season<\/a> as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeofahomeschoolmom.com\/2016\/11\/lighting-your-home-with-love-this-holiday-season\/\">ABCs of Homeschooling through the Holidays<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeofahomeschoolmom.com\/2016\/11\/2016-abcs-of-homeschooling-through-the-holidays\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeofahomeschoolmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ABCs-of-Homeschooling-1-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing says &#8220;Christmastime&#8221; to me more than seeing holiday lights up all over. And while I don&#8217;t like how the holidays are creeping into the world earlier and earlier, when I&#8217;m ready for it (after Thanksgiving has been given it&#8217;s proper time and recognition!), it&#8217;s magical. One of my most favorite parts of getting ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[379,382,565],"class_list":["post-12028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time-to-celebrate","tag-christmas","tag-holidays","tag-lights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12033,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions\/12033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}