{"id":19692,"date":"2024-10-25T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=19692"},"modified":"2024-10-29T21:54:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:54:17","slug":"daily_3526_-_birthday_brunch_prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/10\/25\/daily_3526_-_birthday_brunch_prep\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3526 &#8211; birthday brunch prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had Ingrid&#8217;s actual eighteenth birthday, and the party for the extended family. Now it&#8217;s time for her party with her friends. This one will be a festive brunch, tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/08\/23\/daily_3464_-_dinner_party\/\">not the first fancy meal<\/a> that Ingrid invites her friends to, but it will be on a different level. She has been collecting ideas, and then tableware and decorations, for months. The theme for the decorations is sort of romantic in pink and light green, with flower-patterned vintage plates and champagne flutes and candlesticks and slender, elegant vases.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, after she finalized the menu, we went shopping for groceries and flowers. Then we cleared most other furniture out of the living\/dining room, so that Ingrid could decorate the room and set the table. Ingrid has no school on Fridays this year, so she planned for a full day of baking and food prep today.<\/p>\n<p>I hope her friends have the sense to appreciate the effort that&#8217;s going into this!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3526_brunch_prep_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3526_brunch_prep_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3526_brunch_prep_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3526_brunch_prep_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3526_brunch_prep_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had Ingrid&#8217;s actual eighteenth birthday, and the party for the extended family. Now it&#8217;s time for her party with her friends. This one will be a festive brunch, tomorrow. This is not the first fancy meal that Ingrid invites her friends to, but it will be on a different level. She has been collecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[792,790,18,15,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-celebrations","category-dailies","category-ingrid_johanna","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19692"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19703,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692\/revisions\/19703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}