{"id":499,"date":"2017-12-11T22:25:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T22:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/?p=499"},"modified":"2017-12-11T22:25:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T22:25:39","slug":"holiday-sharing-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/2017\/12\/11\/holiday-sharing-december-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Sharing &#8211; December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our crew came together to dine, draw, describe celebrations of home and dream of new adventures to have here in the US during the holiday season.\u00a0 The au pairs cooked their hearts out and we shared goodies and stories from Thailand, Austria, Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden, France, China, Germany and Canada.\u00a0 Stories of the beaches of Brazil, Chinese New Year, Austrian music and wreaths, French foie gras, German Krampus and Thai lanterns were a part of the evenings activities as was drawing on our heads, a white elephant gift exchange and packing up plates of cookies to savor later.\u00a0 It was a special night with a special class of au pairs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/12\/IMG_2670.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-501\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/12\/IMG_2670-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/12\/IMG_2670-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/12\/IMG_2670-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/12\/IMG_2670.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/12\/IMG_2672.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-502\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/12\/IMG_2672-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/12\/IMG_2672-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/12\/IMG_2672-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/12\/IMG_2672.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our crew came together to dine, draw, describe celebrations of home and dream of new adventures to have here in the US during the holiday season.\u00a0 The au pairs cooked their hearts out and we shared goodies and stories from Thailand, Austria, Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden, France, China, Germany and Canada.\u00a0 Stories of the beaches of  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/sse\/2017\/12\/11\/holiday-sharing-december-2017\/\">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":[8,9,10,76,16,17,21,104,24,25,29,31,35,40,52,55,62],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-things-we-do","tag-au-pair","tag-au-pair-in-america","tag-baby","tag-child-care","tag-childcare","tag-children","tag-cross-cultural","tag-cultural-exchange","tag-eastside","tag-family-activities","tag-host-family","tag-kids","tag-live-in-childcare","tag-nanny","tag-seattle","tag-toddler","tag-washington"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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