{"id":140563,"date":"2016-12-18T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=140563"},"modified":"2016-12-18T14:01:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T12:01:24","slug":"celebrating-christmas-in-your-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/2016\/12\/18\/celebrating-christmas-in-your-new-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Christmas in your new home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And speaking of Christmas, are you ready to spend it in your new house for the first time ever?<br \/>\nHere are some ideas on how you can make your first holiday in your new home more memorable and special.<\/p>\n<p><b>Organise a Christmas party event<\/b><br \/>\nIt would be nice to celebrate in a big way, meaning you can organise a Christmas party for family and friends. This party can also serve as your introduction of your new home. Instead of having your annual Christmas party in a restaurant or in another venue, do it in your new home.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Come up with a theme<\/b><br \/>\nSince you\u2019re having a party, go all out and think of a theme. You may pattern your theme to the design and style of your house. Is your house a classic or modern type? Anyway, come up with a theme to use for your party and decorate your house based on the theme.<\/p>\n<p><b>Make sure to invite family and friends<\/b><br \/>\nYou do not have to invite everyone you know, just invite your family and some closest friends. This is your way of sharing the good news that you just achieved a new milestone in your life.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Cook the food for the party<\/b><br \/>\nFor the food at the party, it would be more ideal and special if you cooked it yourself. Prepare some of your speciality dishes to share with your guests. You can then boast to them that you\u2019re the one who prepared everything for the party.<\/p>\n<p><b>Share a short story about the house<\/b><br \/>\nDuring the party, you may come up with a brief speech to tell the story of your new house. You can tell your guests how you came up with the style, the colours, the choice of furniture, and artworks and so on. This way, you\u2019re letting them know the background of your new house and it may inspire them as well.<br \/>\nOn Christmas Day itself, it would be enough to share a meal with the entire family, say your thanks for the blessings that you achieved this year and seek continued guidance for the following days and years.<br \/>\n* Information obtained from www.themadmommy.com.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='e2052831bf848629c24e15c7e7e54081'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buying your first house is very exciting. And you get to relieve that exciting feeling every time you spend a special holiday like birthdays, anniversaries, and Christmas for the first time in the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":140642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3686],"tags":[13163,1411,5632],"class_list":["post-140563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-news","tag-christmas-new-home","tag-family","tag-holidays"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["christmas. new home","family","holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}