{"id":347,"date":"2014-12-17T23:35:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T23:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/?p=347"},"modified":"2014-12-17T23:41:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T23:41:01","slug":"sharing-traditions-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/2014\/12\/17\/sharing-traditions-december-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Traditions &#8211; December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 10 countries shared their unique holiday traditions this past Sunday in a host family home in Kirkland.\u00a0 We heard about beach Santa&#8217;s shorts in Mexico and South Africa, St Lucia&#8217;s red (blood) belt from Sweden, St Nikolas&#8217;s shoes from Germany, and many more stories of holiday spirit around the world.\u00a0 Then we stole gifts from one another in good fun and shared homemade sweets to take home and devour.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the luckiest counselor around to have this crew of au pairs!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2014\/12\/photo-61.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-348\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2014\/12\/photo-61-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo-61\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2014\/12\/photo-61-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2014\/12\/photo-61-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2014\/12\/photo-61-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2014\/12\/photo-61.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2014\/12\/photo-62.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-349\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2014\/12\/photo-62-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo-62\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2014\/12\/photo-62-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2014\/12\/photo-62-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2014\/12\/photo-62-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2014\/12\/photo-62.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 10 countries shared their unique holiday traditions this past Sunday in a host family home in Kirkland.\u00a0 We heard about beach Santa&#8217;s shorts in Mexico and South Africa, St Lucia&#8217;s red (blood) belt from Sweden, St Nikolas&#8217;s shoes from Germany, and many more stories of holiday spirit around the world.\u00a0 Then we stole gifts  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/2014\/12\/17\/sharing-traditions-december-2014\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,10,76,16,17,21,24,25,29,31,32,35,40,52,55,60,62],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-things-we-do","tag-au-pair","tag-baby","tag-child-care","tag-childcare","tag-children","tag-cross-cultural","tag-eastside","tag-family-activities","tag-host-family","tag-kids","tag-kirkland","tag-live-in-childcare","tag-nanny","tag-seattle","tag-toddler","tag-wa","tag-washington"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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