I’m going to resist the urge to say all the corny things about 2020, and rather just say that I hope you are all enjoying the first day of the new year!

I always kind of enjoy speculating how the year might look. Not in a pressure kind of way, but just a fun healthy curiosity. We all know that we can never predict the future, and nothing will ever look exactly as we imagine it, but sometimes its just SO far in another direction!! That was 2020. I had yard goals and family goals and all kinds of personal development goals! But who in the world thought a PANDEMIC would show up??? That was totally out of left field!! So we can all daydream all we want, but keep it light, folks! Because who the heck knows?! Not me!

I liked making the big to-do list last year. As unpredictable as time is, I still hope to make one of those for this year. Not yet, but soon.

If I did speculate how this year might look, I would say that I’m choosing to believe that the school year will play out all the way until the end of June, like always. I choose to believe we’ll spend a lot of time at the lake, and we’ll put in another garden. Hopefully a more successful one this year! We have a couple of goals on the down low that we’ll share with you in time, because vulnerable, but I’m choosing to believe those will come to fruition. I just hope its a year with less unpleasant surprises. The restrictions can change and change and change, but I can handle that ebb and flow. I think, haha! Just no BIG crazy changes in terms of covid, please!

All of this being said, I feel weirdly struggly today. A little sick, maybe from the late nights. Dizzy. I think I’m mostly just letting down from Christmas and all the lead up. Remember when you were a kid, and your parents put on Christmas and you just never wanted it to end? And then the adults would joke about how they need a holiday after their holiday? Well, we’re there, haha! Oy! I think the letdown has brought on a little extra anxiety. Maybe a little grief? I don’t know. I feel all kinds of weird. I’m looking forward to one last weekend before reality comes back into play. I anticipate the early wakeups and lunch making and all that jazz will be a bit of a shock to the system but it’ll be good for my body and heart to get back into it!

And it’ll be SO GOOD for the kids!! They are ready for school to begin again!

And I’m SO ready to send them their Christmas candy in their lunches! Good luck!!