{"id":975,"date":"2011-01-04T15:53:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T19:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2012-01-21T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T03:28:00","slug":"christmas-in-ohio-installment-ii-ginamom-and-michaeldad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Ohio, Installment II: Ginamom and Michaeldad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in the country. This time, we travel an hour and a half southeast (?), the nearest town Winchester, Ohio. Andrew’s mom and stepdad’s house, otherwise known as Gina-mom and Michael-dad.<\/p>\n

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And yet again, the cold cold weather could not contain us…<\/p>\n

especially not the fearless, playful, snowball-fight-starting Gina-mom.<\/p>\n

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Really, she started it.<\/p>\n

Being around Gina always makes me feel like I should let loose a little more. Because she is so NOT old. Because seriously, the amount of energy contained in this less-than-five-foot-tall person is unreal. Because she is still raising her family (of five) and working full time as an oncologist and driving a million miles a day to do all of this.<\/p>\n

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Energy<\/em><\/p>\n

And then, on top of all that, whenever we visit, she cooks amazing meals to fill our hungry tummies and give us <\/em>energy for…<\/p>\n

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our own snowball fights,<\/p>\n

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and barn exploring,<\/p>\n

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and very first solo sled adventures!<\/p>\n

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Catch!<\/em><\/p>\n

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“More!”<\/em><\/p>\n

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And of course I cannot fail to mention the graceful Katie, ever helpful and lovely.<\/p>\n

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Who gets all the love and hugs from little guys around here, who obviously simply adore her because it’s impossible not to.<\/p>\n

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And somehow, in all the fun and adventure-having, I failed to get a single picture of Austin, who suddenly had a very <\/em>big fan (Milo) trailing his every move… which is hard to do because move <\/em>he does! Thank you Austin and Katie for all the help with the little ones!<\/p>\n

Needless to say, we had a wonderful marvelous time.<\/p>\n

Side note: One unfortunate but inevitable side-effect of the trip was Milo’s sudden exposure to “shoot-guns,” as he calls them. It was love at first sight. Even in a pink Barbie Jeep…<\/p>\n

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which, I feel, really completed the look.<\/p>\n

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Fierce.<\/em><\/p>\n

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What you can’t see is that Milo had stockpiled every single toy gun in that Jeep and was “shootin’ bad guys” and “smackin’ em around.” <\/em><\/p>\n

Great.
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Where could he possibly get that?!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the country. This time, we travel an hour and a half southeast (?), the nearest town Winchester, Ohio. Andrew’s mom and stepdad’s house, otherwise known as Gina-mom and Michael-dad. And yet again, the cold cold weather could not contain us… especially not the fearless, playful, snowball-fight-starting Gina-mom. Really, she started it. Being around … Continue reading “Christmas in Ohio, Installment II: Ginamom and Michaeldad”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,100],"tags":[63,60,66,54],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-favorite-places","tag-christmas","tag-extended-family","tag-holidays","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}