It’s 8:47 p.m. on December 31, 2020.
I love to wrap up each year with a “Year That Was…” blog post, and I have one started for 2020, but didn’t manage to get it finished today. Part of me is super annoyed, and part of me has to laugh at how very 2020 it is to have something not go as expected.
I think we’ll be using “that’s so 2020” as a catchphrase for, oh, forever.
(I’ll get the post done in the next few days for posterity, and life will go on.)
Normally I have at least a few days over Christmas break when the girls go to daycare or winter camp. Jose and I have a day date or two, and I get to do some of my own year-end projects like goal-setting and blog-writing. That didn’t happen this year, of course. But the break has still been good, albeit more family-oriented and less personally productive.
We spent the last day of 2020 in the exact same way we spent many other days in 2020. It was rainy and cold so we didn’t get to take a bike ride or nature walk, but I slept late while the girls got themselves up and watched iPad. We had breakfast — we should really call it brunch given it was 10:30 — and I started a new puzzle. The girls played. Jose flew his flight simulator.
After lunch, Emma wanted to make “a 2021 cake” so we pulled out the cookbook she got for Christmas and got to work. This is a simple chocolate cake with buttercream, but we had fun making and decorating it. We already had a slice after dinner — even though it’s not quite 2021 — and it was delicious.
It’s now 8:59 p.m. and I can already hear fireworks in the distance. I’m sure they will continue all night. The girls are upstairs with Jose taking baths — they each got several bath bombs in their stockings, and those are always a huge hit. We’ve got 3 hours till midnight that we’ll spend playing MarioKart, watching Masked Singer, and seeing whether they can stay awake to see the new year.
Happy New Year, friends! Wishing you all the very best in 2021!
p.s. I’m doing a 31 day blogging challenge.
