{"id":407,"date":"2004-03-21T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/the_results_are_in\/"},"modified":"2004-03-21T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-22T06:47:00","slug":"the_results_are_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/the_results_are_in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Results are In!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce the shower went well.  Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/legomenis.blogspot.com\/\">Legomen<\/a>, the shower shared by two girls was a hit! *G*<br \/>\nMy oldest sis came over about 1:30 on Saturday and set up tables while I worked on some of the food.  Between us we offered a balanced meal, and told everyone who came that it would be &#8220;Pot Luck.&#8221;  It seems that my family would be entirely happy to have appetizers and dessert!<br \/>\nThe invitaions were for 6:30 and most of the family had arrived by 7:00 when we sat down to eat.  Needless to say there was too much food.  Isn&#8217;t that always the way it is at this type of gathering?  We offered sausage and green peppers, ham, funeral potatoes, green beans, carrots, bread, all sorts of pickles and olives, a tostada casserole, and Caesar salad.  One of my nieces manages a bake shop for a major grocery store chain, and she made a cake and a fruit tart for dessert, and there was a fruit tray.<br \/>\nAnd there were several layered taco dips, a shrimp and salad dip, and spinach dip&#8230;.all with assorted crackers and scoopers.<br \/>\nIt was wonderful to have the chance to chat with everyone.  I made a point of collecting hugs on the way in and again on the way out.  The children were few in number, but we had a five month old, a three year old, a four year old, and an eight year old with us&#8230;.and they kept us entertained.<br \/>\nThe girls were both registered at Target, and there were gifts galore!  We bought the bedroom furniture for our new granddaughter, and I shopped for cute clothes for both of the new babies.  My niece asked for an instant read thermometer that sounded like a great idea.  This is her second baby, so she had clear ideas on what she would need this time.  I encouraged my step-daughter to read my niece&#8217;s wish list so that she could see what a recent mother thought was important.<br \/>\nMy sis organized the clean up.  I had them leave the dishes for us to do, but they cleared tables and helped put away food.  I sent ham home with anyone who would take it, and loaded the dishwasher for a late night run.<br \/>\nThis morning, Dear Husband emptied and refilled the dishwasher, and then we worked together to wash china and put things away.  It was fairly painless.<br \/>\nIt was cold out today&#8230;.will be very cold tonight, but it was a pleasure to bask in the sun this afternoon, and just be a couch potato.  If my family is reading this, thank you, one and all, who participated!  You helped make the evening very special, and I&#8217;m delighted we had the chance to celebrate together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce the shower went well. Yes, Legomen, the shower shared by two girls was a hit! *G* My oldest sis came over about 1:30 on Saturday and set up tables while I worked on some of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/the_results_are_in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}