Goodbye 2020

2020 has been a year for the record books for sure, Covid-19 changed so many aspects of people's lives around the world, including mine. The initial scare came just after my 52 birthday, February 29th. My husband threw me a great birthday party with most of my loved ones attending. Little did we know that would be last time we would all be together for the rest of the year.

This morning as I was making my coffee, I noticed this cute little addition to a small tree I bought to enhance the other two small trees I used for Christmas trees. It is the only live plant in my house. I often joke about not having a green thumb, so I was quite surprised to see it. I immediately thought, "wow, this makes me happy!"

Happiness, a word I haven't experienced much in 2020. We had a change in family dynamics, new doctors, new diagnosis and terrible sales numbers. There were many more ups and downs, but we survived. We survived...that has a new meaning these days. I have been really careful throughout the year. I am pretty much home-bound anyways, so it wasn't that far of a stretch for me. I dug in. I made and gave away tons of masks, made some with some great horror fabric to sell, along with some other new items to sell at HorrorCon. I created a new collection of Horror dolls, aka Oddlings. We did a few new projects around the house as well.

I thought all of the distraction would help keep my mind off of the pain, but I was wrong. It worked off and on. I realized I was overdoing. My body needs to rest, not just at night, but from what others may consider normal activity. Stress is also a contributing factor, and I have had way too much this year. I am one of those people who wish they saw the glass half full and work on it all of the time, but the glass half empty shows it's ugly head way too often.

The little Christmas tree sprout gives me hope that 2021 will be a much better year. New Year's Eve John and I have decided to light the fire pit and burn our 2020 calendars. Freezing rain has been forecast here, so we may resort to the shredder, but either way, it will feel good to welcome 2021 with a clean slate.