We put two “sun tunnel” skylights in our hallway and I’m loving the results. It brightens things up so much. Our hallway was always so dark before. They are some work, but definitely a do-able DIY project. I want to put them everywhere now!
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Peak distance-learning fashion
Bahaha you know it’s been a bad year when I revert to comfort-listening to old musicals, Vineyard music, and Indigo Girls.
Loving our Black Santa shirts, @greentopgifts! #clarenceclause
In the midst of this incredibly difficult year, I am so grateful for the closeness it has brought me with these four humans. I am not grateful for COVID, but I can also acknowledge that in the midst of wishing things were different, it has also shaped my family in ways I can never have imagined, and in ways that I think have changed us forever. I could never have anticipated that in these formative teen years, when they should be pushing away from me and leaning into independence, that we would be spending so much time together. I know they wanted something else for this year, and I wanted something else for them, too. But my goodness, the way we’ve learned to laugh and talk and bond when we’ve been all we have. (And we’ve also learned how we annoy and frustrate and take space . . . but that’s what we learn in any intimate relationships.) Throughout the last 8 months I’ve looked at them and thought “I am so glad that if I have to be quarantined, I am surrounded by these people.” It hasn’t been easy but it’s been amazing and I’m so thankful for the joy these kids bring to my life.
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This is me smiling under my mask because I got a normal mammogram for the first time in my life. For the past five years I’ve been in a cycle of abnormal findings and further testing and sonograms and MRI’s and “ruling things out.” I’ve never had breast cancer detected and I’m so grateful for that, and for doctors who care enough to keep on top of things that look suspicious, but the process has been intensely stressful and massively triggering for my own anxiety. The “what if” has been a constant nag in my brain, and I can’t even tell you how good it felt to be given an all-clear instead of a referral for another appointment or another “let’s wait and watch this” warning. The mammogram process isn’t fun and I know I’m not alone in getting abnormal findings, but it’s also incredibly valuable to detect early, even if the process is stressful. So cheers to getting our boobs checked.
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