Happy 2020!

Happy New Year everyone!  Hope you had a wonderful time whatever you did to enter in the new decade.  I did what I always do, my house was super clean and all the Christmas decorations were down.  We had clean sheets, towels and clothes to start the New Year off fresh.  I don't even want dust from the past year to follow me into the next year.  I was in bed early and asleep when the neighbors set off fireworks at midnight.  I turned up my white noise sound machine and fell back to sleep.  I don't want to wake up tired or cranky on the first day of the new year.  My oldest was out at a friends with his girlfriend, Mr 22 and his girl friend were in Indiana visiting her family.  Little Buddy was fast asleep so that was just perfect.  No need for a cranky sleep deprived little boy on January 1st. 

 Speaking of a cute little boy, Little Buddy and I went to the zoo to celebrate the brand new year.  He went on all of his usual rides and loved them, then he said he wanted to go on the roller coaster and I tried to change his mind.  He gets very nervous before the rides begin, even the carousel that we went on four times.  He covers his ears and looks a wee bit panicked.  There was no way I thought he could handle the roller coaster.  But he said he could so we gave it a try.  It is a kids coaster, not a grown up super fast amusement park ride, still it was fast, and turned in two complete circles and guess what, he loved it!  So we had to go on it again!  He is getting braver and braver my little one.  He was just so proud of himself as he should be. By the way we did visit lots of animals, too!

Today Mr 22 and his long time girlfriend made it home from Indiana and packed up and headed back to Orlando.  They will be missed.  I have enjoyed my time with them and even enjoyed Ms Luna who ate my rug, pooped on my carpet, pooped outside on my lanai, peed on my floor, and peed on my bed and Little Buddy's!  Still she is not even one yet and she was definitely setting this house as her turf.  The boys are now exhausted.  Hank has been playing with her nonstop and Bear has been watching and reprimanding her all day long.  They have their roles as uncles and they take them seriously!  By the way my Christmas cactus's were incredible this year.  They bloomed just in time for the holiday.  

Did any of you play this game when you were younger?  I played it with my sister who I assume inherited it from my sister Claudia.  I loved, loved, loved it.  I found this at Home Goods and had to buy it.  I played it with two young teenagers I work with on Tuesday and we had so much fun.  Turning the door nob to see if you had the right date to match you cards was a hoot.  I kept getting the, "dud" and had to turn in all my matching outfit cards.  We had a great time.

I am not going to get all nostalgic about last year, it was tough in many ways and wonderful in others.  I did complete 16 projects and used 11,385 yards of yarn.  That is at least something!  I am not going to have a big review because it is time to move forward.  No words to base my year on, or even specific goals to try.  I am just going to try to do my best because really what else is there?  Be kind to others, be kind to myself, be as healthy as possible, rest when possible, help as many people as I can and just do my best.  Simple, simple, simple.

Happy New Year my friends.