{"id":783313,"date":"2010-12-05T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T17:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/leigharev2\/?p=783313"},"modified":"2010-12-05T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T17:09:15","slug":"a-personal-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2010\/12\/05\/a-personal-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"A Personal Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to share with you a personal treasure.\u00a0 It is something I only see through the Christmas season, and something I will always cherish.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Nativity set that belonged to my grandparents.\u00a0 I remember rearranging the figures while at their house.\u00a0 They were special to me as a child, and now, I get to share them with my boys.\u00a0 I have it placed on the mantle, but am thinking about making it more accessible, so they can enjoy moving the figures around like I did.\u00a0 I love this incredible visual reminder of the reason for Christmas.\u00a0 I also love having this visual joy as a reminder for my grandmother, who has passed on.\u00a0 (And someday, my Grandpa; although I suspect he&#8217;s going to outlive us all \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I hope I inherited his healthy, longevity genes\u00a0&#8230;Norwegian blood, I&#8217;m sure.)<\/p>\n<p>By the way, this is the memory verse the boys and I are working on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaiah 9:2-6 &#8220;The people walking in darkness have seen a great light, on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned&#8230;For to us a child is born, to us a Son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.\u00a0 And he will be called, Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.&#8221; <\/strong>(This was written by the prophet Isaiah around 701BC&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5247\/5234822886_dfef45a897.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5043\/5234824664_8d4d5346e5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5042\/5234232885_a8fa2a673c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5002\/5234234629_c87c020936.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5201\/5234829086_77b4a6954e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5290\/5234237653_ae954cecde.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to share with you a personal treasure.\u00a0 It is something I only see through the Christmas season, and something I will always cherish. This is the Nativity set that belonged to my grandparents.\u00a0 I remember rearranging the figures while at their house.\u00a0 They were special to me as a child, and now, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisnthat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}