Happy New Year!

The prettiest cat in Texas ;)

Happy New Year! So grateful and thankful for another year.  If you're reading this, thank you! 

I enjoyed looking back over my goals for 2020, and, actually I didn't do too badly.  A few goals were to blog once a month, (haha, such a low goal for myself), and to read 12 books.  I'm alllll about a few attainable goals, and am happy to say that I achieved both things. *bows* I actually ended up doubling my reading goal and rediscovered my love for historical fiction. 

As far as blogging goes, this year my goal is to blog TWICE per month.  I know.  Hold your applause, please.  Along those lines, I am working on a new blog, which will "launch" lol, hopefully, by the end of February.  The new one won't be family centered, but will help me move in a new direction with my kids getting older.  I love blogging, and the hobby that has been - I've been here for 13 years! So, yeah, I'm excited about that! I've even started a blogging calendar for myself. Super official. ;)

Some other things that I was able to check off the list in 2020 was getting all caught up on all my doctor visits and well checks.  Included in that, but much more fun was finding an esthetician, which included getting a few facials and a chemical peel.  If only I could go back in time to my sun baking days and reverse that damage, then I'd really be all set. 

2020 was also the year of Disney for our family - getting to visit so many times really was a dream come true. We hope to go back this year for their 50th, but we're also looking forward to hopefully visiting Hawaii.  We haven't been there since 2011, I think?? HOW CAN THAT BE POSSIBLE? We have a few free airline tickets that we need to use already, so hopefully that trip will happen.

Havalah and I did a full Whole30 in 2020, as well as two short ones.  We both loved it and how we felt afterwards, so we're putting that on our calendars again for 2021, starting in a few weeks!

House goals for 2021 include the finishing touches on the kitchen, new bathroom lights for all the bathrooms, painting all the doors and installing new doorknobs, and lots of little projects that probably don't need to be recorded here lol.

I am SO looking forward to seeing my sister, Mary Beth in the next few months.  I can't wait to hug her neck in person.  The last six months have been, well, really hard.  She's on the other side now; full hysterectomy, lumpectomy, 12 weeks of chemo, and a mastectomy DONE, and healing like a champ. So proud of her.  

So, happy new year to you! Thanks for reading.  {{hug}}