Day 291: 12-29-20 (Tuesday)
Nothing too exciting today. I worked on projects and got organized for when school starts up again. We found out that Seminary for Ailey will now be in-person 4 days a week starting in January. Hunter isn't feeling well again and has another fever. He went to get tested for COVID again. I started feeling kind of crappy and nauseous so I quarantined myself away from Tyler and the girls tonight. Not good.
Bryn's activity day girls are doing one last activity. It's an after Christmas Secret Santa Exchange. Ailey helped Bryn pick out some cute things for the girl that she was assigned. It's so crazy to think that this is her last activity as a Primary kid. One more week and she is officially in Young Womens.
It started blizzarding this evening.
Day 292: 12-30-20 (Wednesday)
It snowed all night and all day. I woke up feeling somewhat better but decided to stay quarantined for today just to make sure. I finished two books and binge watched Bridgerton. All enjoyable. I hate being cooped up and don't love lying around watching TV but it was tolerable. I felt fine by this evening. THANK GOODNESS.
Day 293: 12-31-20 (Thursday)
Today is New Year's Eve. It took all four of us trying to figure out what day was New Year's Eve earlier this week. This crazy limbo time between Christmas and New Years is ridiculous. Good grief.
Tyler left early this morning to get yet another COVID test as one of his pre-op labs. Here we are again. Hunter's second COVID test came back negative and he is feeling better. Good.
New Year's Eve finds me without any real excitement. I feel like I have dreaded every holiday since COVID began and even before that back to September 2019. It's been so long since I really looked forward to and wanted to celebrate a holiday. Christmas was an exception and then we found out about Tyler's heart issues and then that took the wind out of my holiday sails.
What I really didn't feel like doing was cooking another big meal. We ordered a pan of food from our favorite restaurant (Best idea ever!) and made a few of our favorite easy appetizers...like raclette. The girls really wanted a big game night and for Tyler and I to be a bit more peppy. We played games but we weren't exactly peppy enough I guess. Ha ha.
Ailey telling me to "Liven Up!!"
Anyone else's kids taken to wearing their blue blocker glasses everywhere just for fun? No? Just our weirdos? Ok, good to know.
The kids really wanted to play an old game from my mom's house... "Win, Lose, or Draw." They had no idea that it used to be a TV show. They loved it! We played many many many rounds.
Every time Tyler and I tried to go to bed...they shamed us into staying up. LOL. We did and it ended up being a fun night with the girlies. But it felt like it took forever to reach midnight this year.
Finally...the clock struck midnight! We banged pots and pans and toasted the New Year. Never have I rung in the New Year so hesitantly. Are we ringing in a great New Year full of promise or our doom? It feels like a toss up. Yes...we yelled JUMANJI at midnight.
Our neighborhood had quite the illegal fireworks show! Big giant fireworks being shot off on a very foggy night. It made the night look colorful rather than being able to actually see the fireworks. I appreciate the level of rebellion of the people on my block. In Spokane county you can face a fine of $500-$1000. I feel like the fireworks were a big F-YOU to 2020, COVID-19, WA State, and the government. I support!!
Day 294: 1-1-21 (Friday)
Happy New Year!
It's New Year's Day. The lamest of all holidays. Is anyone actually a New Year's Day fan? This morning was set-up day for vendors at the store. Kind of weird but I actually really liked it. The store is closed on New Year's Day so it was perfect for vendors to come in and pull out all of the leftover Christmas décor before the store opens again tomorrow. It was good to do a booth refresh. Plus it was oddly festive. Vendor friends wishing one another HAPPY NEW YEAR! And stopping by booths to chat. It turned out to be quite a fun time. Who knew? Tyler is in strict quarantine again until his procedure so we took the girls with us to help me with my booth while Tyler waited in the car. To thank them for their help and in an attempt to be festive we got cookies from Crumbl again and they were thrilled.
It's my week at the lake so we stopped by to check on things. There was a ton of snow. The lake is semi-frozen with slush. There were quite a few branches down. Whoever was out at the lake for Christmas did a subpar cleaning job. Lovely. I was really glad we didn't spend the holiday weekend out there and Kirk and Meki too.
We got to video chat with Kam today since it is a holiday. We got a new Portal system that makes our video chatting SO MUCH BETTER! Here he is living large! LOL. He and his district were able to gather at the church last night to play games and hang out. They could only stay until 10 pm (their curfew) so they rang in the New Year early and toasted with Martinellis and then headed back home to their apartments. He messaged us to see if we were banging pots and pans and yelling out our front door to welcome the new year. Yes, we did.
Tonight we watched our final Hallmark Christmas movie of the season. (Tyler finally cut us off... we weren't ready!!) Candace Cameron Bure... you are our holiday hero!
Day 295: 1-2-21 (Saturday)
It's everyone's favorite day!! Christmas Tree (s) take down day. Can you hear the groans and complaints of my family? Everyone loathes this day and all that it implies. I do too. The irony is the level of complaining to the amount of work that my family actually does. I am super picky about how things are done so I pack up most of the Christmas bins myself but they do lug trees, many boxes and bins, and keep food and drinks coming my way. We were trying to get a bunch of stuff done prior to Tyler's procedure while he can still lift things. It's an exhausting day and usually depressing since the house seems so dark and dreary but today the sky was blue and the sun was shining. The snow melted and our grass even looked green. Bring on Spring! Better yet bring on Summer! I have no use for winter after January 1st.
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