Looking for something festive to do with the whole family?<\/p>\n

Waist management no longer permits me to do much holiday baking and candy-making but when I think about younger parents trying to achieve some sort of balance between what they need to do and what they want to do around the holidays…well… \u00a0I want to jump back in.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in doing some holiday baking or setting up a cookie exchange or just want to bring something different to your next get-together check out the kitchen at the North Pole.<\/a><\/p>\n

A friend sent it and I thought you might enjoy it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking for something festive to do with the whole family? Waist management no longer permits me to do much holiday baking and candy-making but when I think about younger parents trying to achieve some sort of balance between what they need to do and what they want to do around the holidays…well… \u00a0I want to jump back in. If you’re interested in doing some holiday baking or setting up a cookie exchange or just want to bring something different to your next get-together check out the kitchen at the North Pole. A friend sent it and I thought you might enjoy it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[153,182,228,377],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-8209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-family-life","tag-fun","tag-holiday","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}