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<\/a><\/p>\nTonight’s pace was totally different than the holidays… tonight was hustle hustle hustle, scurry scurry scurry … a lot to prepare and think about with the kiddos launching back into the school routine starting tomorrow morning and Nancy and I back into our routines as well. \u00a0I mentioned previously that I’m excited about the #altMBA<\/a>\u00a0— that will get kicked off on Jan 11. \u00a0So I have one week of time to shake the dust off, get back into a routine, and then be ready to rock and roll for the start of the altMBA. \u00a0That means we have one Tuesday left for our traditional Tuesday night BFD session. \u00a0Eric and Rusty: \u00a0y’all should be warned that I’m very much looking forward to it. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Quick bag update: \u00a0One by one, we’re beginning to sell our bags!<\/strong><\/p>\n While we’re not quite ready to start taking online orders at large — we have started selling a few backpacks one at a time. \u00a0I just sold one this weekend! \u00a0Packing up these initial bags and getting them ready to ship is nothing but pure adrenaline for me. \u00a0It’s a lot of fun to polish the buckles, attach the tags, tuck the tissue paper, and seal the box… I will be very eager to start openly selling as soon as we can. \u00a0But until then I continue to celebrate each of these initial sales, \u00a0 \u00a0one \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0by \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 one. \u00a0 \u00a0 Drip by drip, he we go shipping… Packing up this box tonight felt like the absolutely most perfect way to officially wrap up the holidays:<\/p>\n … The holidays had our house looking very different … here’s a pic of Nancy with her feet up, TopoChico at the ready, Christmas living room chilling in the background, while Ivanna and I played with some bag patterns on our extended kitchen table: Tonight’s pace was totally different than the holidays… tonight was hustle … Continue reading One by one… here we go shipping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PkJR-3E","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.backpacksfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"