{"id":1242,"date":"2024-01-21T13:41:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T13:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2024-01-23T14:53:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:53:59","slug":"winter-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Winter Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Winter-Fun--1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Winter-Fun--1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Winter-Fun--980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Winter-Fun--480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">The first winter snowfall brings back such happy memories for me.\u00a0 Memories of playing outside with my children, cheeks rosy and breath forming frosty clouds as we laugh and call out to one another.\u00a0 Memories of rolling big balls of snow to form snowmen, packing piles of snow together to build icy forts, and sliding down hills on a toboggan.\u00a0 The first snowfall is especially magical, and each winter I look forward to watching the snowflakes fall from the sky as I sit by my fireplace looking out the window, dreaming happily of days gone by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center has-white-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2\">\n\n<strong>Winter Fun<\/strong>\r\nBy Krista Longeway\r\n\r\nThe comfort of a hot mug of cocoa\r\nHeld in my hands on a cold winter\u2019s day\r\nBeyond my window streets are piled with snow\r\nWhile curled up here at fireside I stay\r\n\r\nBeyond my window children laugh with glee\r\nPlaying and sliding in the snow outside\r\nInviting their friends to play joyously\r\nWhile over the cold ice and snow they glide\r\n\r\nSoon children will come in chilly and wet\r\nLooking for warmth and their own steaming mug\r\nTelling tales of fun they had when they met\r\nThe snowmen they built and the holes they dug\r\n\r\nAt this time I am happy and content\r\nTo watch the snow fall from my chair inside\r\nListening to the children tell where they went\r\nAnd enjoying the warmth at fireside\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first winter snowfall brings back such happy memories for me.\u00a0 Memories of playing outside with my children, cheeks rosy and breath forming frosty clouds as we laugh and call out to one another.\u00a0 Memories of rolling big balls of snow to form snowmen, packing piles of snow together to build icy forts, and sliding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-and-family","category-uncategorized","category-winter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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