{"id":31410,"date":"2025-12-03T19:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=31410"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:55:10","slug":"the-best-part-of-our-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/the-best-part-of-our-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The best part of our day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000010200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000010200-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000010200-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000010200-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000010200-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000010200-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000010200-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Timothy, Christmas 2004<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best part of each day lately is when Richard and I sit down to watch an annual family Christmas video. We have made these videos since 2003, so if we want to see them all before Christmas, we begin early. They feature our kids&#8217; performances, piano pieces, and sometimes lip syncs to Christmas songs. They end with a slideshow of the year&#8217;s photos put to music. They were originally intended for the grandparents, but as the years pass, they probably bring the most delight to us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are working on the 2025 installment. There is always a story to tell about family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a part of our 2014 video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-Christmas.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2014 Christmas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best part of each day lately is when Richard and I sit down to watch an annual family Christmas video. We have made these videos since 2003, so if we want to see them all before Christmas, we begin early. They feature our kids&#8217; performances, piano pieces, and sometimes lip syncs to Christmas songs. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/the-best-part-of-our-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The best part of our day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,26,14,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-family-time","category-fatherhood","category-home-movies-audio","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31415,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31410\/revisions\/31415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}