{"id":4520,"date":"2011-03-10T08:23:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2011-03-10T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T14:23:14","slug":"growing-up-crafty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4520","title":{"rendered":"Growing up Crafty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of things I love about Eli and Liza. They are kind and funny and smart and, best of all, interested in making things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/craft-liza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/craft-liza.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"craft liza\" width=\"499\" height=\"751\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/craft-liza.jpg 499w, https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/craft-liza-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit late in the season, but both of the kids wanted a scarf to wear. So yesterday Liza and I purchased yarn (she picked out both hers and Eli&#8217;s) to make scarves. Liza got right to work on hers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/craft-liza-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/craft-liza-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"craft liza 2\" width=\"499\" height=\"751\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/craft-liza-21.jpg 499w, https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/craft-liza-21-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liza spent about 45 minutes yesterday afternoon &#8220;crocheting&#8221; her yarn. She kept asking me how to do it and so I showed her a chain stitch and how to do it with her fingers. I told her that it would be a lot easier for her when she got a bit older. She was happy with what she could do.<\/p>\n<p>After she went to bed last night, I made her a scarf and had enough yarn left over to make a tiny hat. She proudly wore them to take Dad to the airport at 5:30 this morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/liza-scarf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/liza-scarf.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"liza scarf\" width=\"399\" height=\"635\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/liza-scarf.jpg 399w, https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/liza-scarf-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eli was less enthusiastic about his. I think the teen years are going to be made of eye rolls, long suffering sighs, and homemade robots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/eli-scarf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/eli-scarf.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"eli scarf\" width=\"399\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/eli-scarf.jpg 399w, https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/eli-scarf-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of things I love about Eli and Liza. They are kind and funny and smart and, best of all, interested in making things. It&#8217;s a bit late in the season, but both of the kids wanted a scarf to wear. So yesterday Liza and I purchased yarn (she picked out both hers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Growing up Crafty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}