{"id":10432,"date":"2015-12-22T05:06:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T11:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10432"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:16:36","slug":"christmas-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10432","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"PICT0880\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/18904368333\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/444\/18904368333_2d19a4fc24.jpg\" alt=\"PICT0880\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Digging through the files. This is Logan when he was two. He has always been a Christmas kid.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"PICT0869\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/19525266325\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/445\/19525266325_f9dc3aa2b1.jpg\" alt=\"PICT0869\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One year we got <del>me<\/del> Logan\u00a0some <a href=\"http:\/\/ttte.wikia.com\/wiki\/Thomas_%26_Friends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas the Tank Engine<\/a> track and cars.<del> I<\/del> He loved it until <del>Heather took it away from me<\/del> he outgrew it. Sniff.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"PICT0864\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/19525283595\/in\/photostream\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/343\/19525283595_2ea530f2b5.jpg\" alt=\"PICT0864\" width=\"328\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At least two out of the three of us can smile.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"PICT0875\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/19338757589\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/555\/19338757589_958a5bc461.jpg\" alt=\"PICT0875\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Boompa and Nana with Logan. Boompa, Charles, was the word&#8217;s greatest FIL and a heck of a great guy. He and Logan loved each other and were best friends. He was taken away from us suddenly years ago and we still miss him every day. Boompa loved Christmas and he loved his grandson.<br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"PICT0169\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8302955466\/in\/photolist-vCtQ1H-vAbdwJ-vm2Ycz-vCu5un-vdAUWj-uykHoa-vvbB8K-fF16XA-fE4sHy-fhAj8r-f1CBWZ-f1Swzh-dDGPoA-dDBsCZ-dDGJ4L-dDGLd3-dDGKWG-dDyCz6-dDE31m-dDyExK-dDyDog-dDyFb8-dDE3PG-dDE1Sj-dDyC1a-dDyET8-dDyBkB-dDE1cS-dq8Pno-cdp9Xw-bW2PVP-8b7tcm-89kqCk-89oFhY-89kqvT-89oERb-89oEL1-89oEE1-89kqkH-89oEnW-8iuPF9-8irDvx-7Zei8E-7Zb5Wx\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8495\/8302955466_b7b13f0620.jpg\" alt=\"PICT0169\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><script title=\"_DSC0386\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5640\/23399252132_8ea1ac2683.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0386\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\">\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is my mother, Granny, with Logan when he was about six months or so. Nobody loved her kids, grandkids, and great grandkids like Granny did. She is also gone now.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_DSC0386\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/23399252132\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5640\/23399252132_8ea1ac2683.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0386\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We are moving forward though making new memories. We are confident that we will meet up with Boompa, Granny, and others again and the memories will be that much sweeter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zSKKamK8kpI?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For new classic singers can anybody beat Michael Buble?<\/p>\n<p>For great Christian Gospel Hymns check out my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/drilleraa.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Driller's Christmas Music Marathon<\/a>, going on now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digging through the files. This is Logan when he was two. He has always been a Christmas kid. One year we got me Logan\u00a0some Thomas the Tank Engine track and cars. I He loved it until Heather took it away from me he outgrew it. Sniff. At least two out of the three of us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[1541,1333,1269,1279,1276,940],"class_list":["post-10432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","tag-boompa","tag-christmas","tag-family","tag-heather","tag-logan","tag-nana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15781,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions\/15781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}