{"id":84,"date":"2008-03-22T16:36:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T15:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=84"},"modified":"2008-03-22T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T15:36:42","slug":"spring-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Spring Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re having our annual Spring party tomorrow, and I&#8217;ve had to make a few changes to the initial plan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/snowy-buds.jpg\" title=\"snowy-buds.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/snowy-buds.jpg\" alt=\"snowy-buds.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided that we can put the Easter Eggs in white plastic cups and hide them outside, that way they won&#8217;t get soaked or buried in the snow while the kids look for them.\u00a0 With any luck they&#8217;ll stay outside and make snowmen, as the house is a bit small for so many people, and I had sort of hoped (ha, ha!) that we would be eating outside! I&#8217;ve had to make a few changes to the menu as well.\u00a0 We were going to be having wild primrose and dandelion leaf salad.\u00a0 Hmmm, I don&#8217;t think so:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/snowy-primroses.jpg\" title=\"snowy-primroses.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/snowy-primroses.jpg\" alt=\"snowy-primroses.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These were the only primroses in sight, and they&#8217;re looking a bit folorn. Instead we are having:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asparagus leaves with dipping sauce<\/li>\n<li>Tapenade on toasts<\/li>\n<li>Roquette salad with walnuts and orange or quail&#8217;s eggs depending what Mike comes up with<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Salt-roasted chicken with cranberry sauce<\/li>\n<li>New potatoes, asparagus and candied carrots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Specially amazing spring matzah brye with strawberries and whipped cream<\/li>\n<li>Chocolate cake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our spring party is our own family&#8217;s combination Easter\/Passover\/Just Plain Spring celebration.\u00a0 And because it&#8217;s all ours, we get to invite whoever we like and do it all our own way (weather permitting).\u00a0 By coincidence, we&#8217;re having it on Easter Sunday this year.\u00a0 Passover is really ages away, but it feels near to us as Mike and Antonia are counting down time till they head off to the US, for a real Seder amongst other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re having our annual Spring party tomorrow, and I&#8217;ve had to make a few changes to the initial plan. I decided that we can put the Easter Eggs in white plastic cups and hide them outside, that way they won&#8217;t get soaked or buried in the snow while the kids look for them.\u00a0 With any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=84\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring Party<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}