It’s a GIRL!!!
Jeff got up and dressed and out of the house with us first thing this morning (which is rare for him since he’s still WFH), and Emmie was glad to have him at school drop-off with us!
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We’re Halfway There!
The baby triplets weren’t there at the same time as us this morning, which made Emmie a little sad, but she still had a good drop-off, even with out them. And she looked super cute and nice & warm in this new outfit Nana got her for Christmas.
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Steak & Potatoes
At bedtime last night, Emerson requested that we have egg sandwiches for breakfast this morning. So once I could get up and moving a little bit, she helped me out in the kitchen, and we made her requested egg sandwiches!
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Kitchen Contraptions
Emerson and I woke up early around 6:30am. We watched a little bit of Frozen 2, and then had cereal together for breakfast. It was storming super bad early this morning, thundering so loud it was literally shaking the entire house. And then of course it proceeded to rain & storm all day, so we spent the entire day indoors. Jeff and the boys of course slept through it, so we finally woke them up around 8:30am.
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2nd Annual Low Country Boil
I got up early with Tater Tot today, around 6:15ish or so. We snuggled and watched Pocahontas. She ate some “crunch crunch” and I had a couple of Ego waffles. Around 8am, we got an early start of chores and cooking, and made ourselves a Funfetti cake!
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Goodbye, Adios, Ciao, Adieu
Jeff and Emmie got up early and let me sleep in again today, all the way until 8am! So once I was awake and moving, I made the three of us some egg sandwiches for breakfast, with a little help from my tiniest assistant. (We didn’t bother waking the boys, because they’re too grumpy to be woken up just for breakfast, plus they didn’t want to go to Walmart with us anyways.)
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A Look Back at 2020
Y’all, 2020 is finally coming to an end. In an “unprecedented year” like we’ve literally never seen before, I’m sure many of us are ready to bid it farewell, in hopes that things will look different/better in 2021. As we all know, this has been the weirdest year of most of our lives, and although I am ready to see it go, I know that things will not magically snap back to “before” when 1/1/21 rolls around. And again, as strange and sometimes terrible as 2020 was, there were also some great moments too.
I’m so glad that I’ve been keeping this online journal for 2.5 years now, with the ability to go back and read random posts and relive those random days. I made recap posts like this one for the past two years, and not only do I love making these, y’all love reading these too. If you’d like to relive the past with me, you can check out the old posts for 2018 and 2019 here, and now we’ll get going on 2020!
Although there were a few days where I didn’t blog (due to website issues or pregnancy exhaustion), I always tried to make up for those days by posting twice the following day, which means I wrote a total of 368 posts this year! (And this is my 1,000th all-time post!!) People have viewed my blog from 55 different countries, with a little over 46,000 total views just this year! With a whopping 103,000+ all-time views!
So today, on New Year’s Eve, let’s wrap up 2020 by highlighting some of my favorite posts from each month…
♦JANUARY
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My Year in Books – 2020
As I do every year, I want to recap some of the books I’ve read this past year. (In case you’d like to check them out, here are my previous years’ posts for 2018 and 2019.) I always set a goal or challenge on Goodreads, and once again, I not only met but slightly exceeded my goal. Goodreads is basically just a way to track books you have already read, or want to read. You can read reviews, and rate the books you’ve read, and follow favorite authors or friends. I’ve been using it consistently since 2014, and I love being able to track my progress! Lists are a big part of my life. (Other Enneagram Type 1’s can agree with me on this point, I’m sure.) I thought I would set a lower goal around 50-75 this year, but then I ended up reading more once the pandemic hit, so I upped it to my usual 100 books. My final total? I read 102 books this year!
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Milk Thief
Emmie got up early at 6am as usual, and Jeff got up to hang out with her. But then after I got ready and came into the living room to check on them, I found them like this, with Emmie watching tv and Jeff snoring away…
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