{"id":1932,"date":"2008-12-08T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-21T05:25:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T05:25:34","slug":"blessing-of-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/blessing-of-book-club.html","title":{"rendered":"{the blessing of a book club}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello.  It&#8217;s Sunday night and my house is quiet.  We are playing Christmas music while I scrapbook my blessing and Josh works on a HUGE paper he has due on Tuesday.  It&#8217;s a nice cozy night.  This week has been fairly similar &#8211; calm and quiet.  The calm before the storm.  I think this next week might just kill me off.  I started making a list today of everything I have to get done and its pretty flippin&#8217; huge.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t want to dwell on the negative.  I decided I&#8217;m not going to complain about how stressful my week is going to be and let the stress own me like I normally would.  I&#8217;m just choosing to be happy and have fun and enjoy the season without getting too horribly stressed.  I&#8217;ll get it all done, but I won&#8217;t make myself miserable.  We&#8217;ll see how this positive mental attitude works out for me.<\/p>\n<p>ANYWAY &#8211; I was thinking about what to do for my blessing this week and I thought about how blessed I am to have my Book Club.  Its just my mom, my grandma, and my aunts and a couple cousins.  I love getting together each month to eat and talk and catch up and to talk about books.  It&#8217;s a blessing to be close to my family and and even bigger blessing to have them feel like friends too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3083\/3091933238_812ca3d828_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3083\/3091933238_812ca3d828_o.jpg\" width=\"540\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digishoptalk.com\/gallery\/showphoto.php?photo=497904&amp;cat=all&amp;ppuser=5263\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:small;\">{full credits here}<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have our special December book club coming up and I&#8217;m so excited.  My Aunt Kris is like the hostess-extraordinare and she goes ALL OUT for December book club.  Delicious food, gorgeous decorations, fancy tea cups, the works.  It&#8217;s a real treat and we&#8217;re all anxious to see what she does this year!  No pressure Kris! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>AND guess what else!  It&#8217;s my birthday in 1 week!  One week from today!!! Woo hoo!  Some people are all quiet about their birthdays and don&#8217;t really let people know about it.  Not me baby!  I&#8217;m all about my birthday and I want everyone to know when it is.  Next Sunday!  Josh is taking me away for the night to Park City next weekend.  I&#8217;m so excited!  He just told me today.  He&#8217;s such a good husband.<\/p>\n<p>One last LO to post and then I think I&#8217;ll head for bed.  I scrapped this LO of my baby brother&#8217;s 16th birthday party at our Speed Scrap on Friday afternoon.  I really like how it came out.  His favorite color is green, so of course I had to make it green.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i70.photobucket.com\/albums\/i104\/designerbrittney\/16thCameron_BLOG.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i70.photobucket.com\/albums\/i104\/designerbrittney\/16thCameron_BLOG.jpg\" width=\"540\" \/><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrapmatters.com\/gallery3\/showphoto.php\/photo\/16262\/ppuser\/4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">{full credits here}<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alrighty &#8211; that&#8217;s it from me for tonight.  See you later!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/BlogSignaturesmall-5.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136120997058580338\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello. It&#8217;s Sunday night and my house is quiet. We are playing Christmas music while I scrapbook my blessing and Josh works on a HUGE paper he has due on Tuesday. It&#8217;s a nice cozy night. This week has been fairly similar &#8211; calm and quiet. The calm before the storm. I think this next &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/blessing-of-book-club.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">{the blessing of a book club}<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/BlogSignaturesmall-5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}