{"id":1045,"date":"2014-01-23T16:45:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2014-01-23T16:45:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:45:01","slug":"snow-day-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Snow Day Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the MLK long weekend gave us sunny and even warm (relatively speaking) weather, Tuesday brought us 6 inches of snow.\u00a0 For hardy Midwesterners and New Englanders, this amount might be a mere blip on the winter radar.\u00a0 However, for the mid-Atlantic and for DC in particular, it\u2019s enough to shut down the federal government and school systems in the area.\u00a0 Our kids managed to get 2 snow days out of it.\u00a0 While much of it was spent watching Dr. Who<\/span> and Phineas & Ferb<\/span>, there was also outdoor play.\u00a0 A snowball fight, complete with snowball guns, was a requirement.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the snow wasn\u2019t ideal for snowball fights, being light and fluffy, but good fun was still had by all (2 kids + dog).\u00a0 And when the snowball gun fails, a hand-packed snowball is a perfect substitute.<\/p>\n

\"Marcus<\/a>
Marcus with the snowball gun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jade<\/a>
Jade making snowballs the old-fashioned way<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, the prerogative of the parent is to stay in the toasty warm house and indulge in baking.\u00a0 I got a bread machine as a birthday present last year, and Tuesday was the perfect day to try out a recipe for chocolate challah.\u00a0 I doubled the amount of chocolate chips the recipe called for (duh!), and the loaf received an enthusiastic thumbs up from the family.<\/p>\n

\"Chocolate<\/a>
Chocolate challah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The kids are now back in school (yay!) and enjoying their 2 day school week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the MLK long weekend gave us sunny and even warm (relatively speaking) weather, Tuesday brought us 6 inches of snow.\u00a0 For hardy Midwesterners and New Englanders, this amount might be a mere blip on the winter radar.\u00a0 However, for the mid-Atlantic and for DC in particular, it\u2019s enough to shut down the federal government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[135,3,82,55],"tags":[345,136,327,28,339,138,45,137],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking","category-family","category-fun","category-school","tag-baking","tag-bread","tag-family","tag-peipei","tag-school","tag-snow","tag-weiwei","tag-winter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-gR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}