My official 2020 Recap for Facebook:
Rang in the new year with friends at the Wilson home • Celine Dion concert • Awkward Match date • Celebrated my birthday with friends and family as usual • Application approved for Angel Adoption in February (thankful I chose to wait a bit longer) • Randomly decided to buy an exercise bike just before the pandemic hit • Reconnected with several old friends from high school • Planned April trip to Washington DC with my oldest nephew and his class • Researched and planned shore excursions for Alaska cruise with my aunt in September • Dad won a State Farm trip to Disney World for July • Cancelled all those trips and flights • Joined a new gym then promptly froze my gym membership • Lots of quality time with the Wilsons and Fultons • Created my own Peloton account and finally started a consistent morning workout routine • New paint and flooring + kitchen and fireplace remodel (crazy frustrating process, but fantastic results) • Applied for a Federal CR position in Tulsa - thankful now that I didn’t get it • Lots of quarantine baking and cooking with my new air fryer • Neighborhood and park walks • Lots of texting and Peloton workouts with Malori • Lots of quality time with my wonderful niece and nephews • Lots of bike time with Cody and Robin • Dealing with video court hearings and hearings where everyone is masked up and further away • More down time and less transcript income than any other year• Still very thankful for job security • Lots of FaceTime and Zoom calls with friends and family • Read 45 books, mostly audiobooks, including the Bible • Wrote and mailed 36 letters to important people who have shaped my life • Processed relational grief and confusion and a few emotionally difficult conversations with friends • Tried online therapy and personal development classes • Created a fun, colorful abstract painting for my office • Watched Schitt’s Creek, The Queen’s Gambit, Hamilton, and The Crown (among other things) • Lots of good talks over cheesy pasta with Sarah Elizabeth • Bought a fancy adjustable base bed - $ well spent • Joined the Century Club and eventually got 200+ rides with Peloton • Helped mom organize the kids notebooks and school supplies • Less time at movie theaters and more time outside than any year in recent memory • Far less time in church services than any other year of my life, but more time praying and genuinely connecting with God • Wrote blogs to document all of this in more detail • Supported grieving friends and family members to the best of my ability • Sad and angry about Babah being treated poorly at a skilled nursing home where no one could visit • Thankful she is staying with a wonderful friend now and slowly improving • Helped Rach paint the kids’ rooms at her new home • Celebrated my aunt beating breast cancer and Rach getting a job at Tinker • Celebrated four friends’ pregnancies • Grew stronger mentally and physically • Thankful to go to an OSU football game during the pandemic • Small but wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings with the immediate fam • Fun slumber party + memorable prayer time with my niece and nephews • Rang in the new year with friends at the Wilson home! ❤
...I’m thankful for the highs and lows and the memories and lessons from 2020. And hopeful for this fresh start and a brighter year ahead in 2021!!
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And now, a recap of ringing in the New Year! Here's Tatertot playing a lovely song for us on his new harmonica. lol (Also note The Office on in the background... it was the last day it was on Netflix, so we watched it for a bit and talked about our favorite episodes and quotes!)
Chet and Karli had chips and queso for us, then Mark and Rachel brought pepperoni pizza, and I brought Oreo balls (per Chet's request again - lol - they're becoming my specialty, and I'm finally getting faster at making them). It was all tasty and fun!
My honorary nephew, Tate, showed me some of his Christmas gifts, including baby snowman, the balance bike, and his awesome new fire truck bed!! So much cuteness!
All the NYE stuff on TV was boring and strange, so we turned to the Barden Bellas and the Treblemakers for some entertainment! lol It made me verrry happy that everyone there knew the songs and joined me in singing along off and on with the riff-off and poolside mashup and competition performance songs - fun!
We played Ticket to Ride (I was yellow and came in last or second to last, but it was fun) and it took quite a while... we were all there until 1am, and I had been so sure we would be gone before midnight, but we finished our game and the movie - YAY! I was just planning to leave whenever the Shoemakers left, and I figured with an infant that would be around 9 or 10 at the latest. But I'm glad it worked out this way... I've spent the last seven years ringing in the new year at the Wilson home, so it would've been a little sad to break that tradition.
Thanks to some random neighbor of theirs setting off fireworks a minute early, we tuned back into the TV with 22 seconds to spare in watching the ball drop for 2021!! lol
Bring. It. On!!
And bye, Felicia to 2020! ❤
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