Adventures in La La Land

Once upon a time, I had a 5 Year Journal. You're supposed to write a line or two a day on the same page for five consecutive years. I only made it through a couple of years because I'm lazy, but there was a point when my anxiety was bad and looking ahead to the blank pages filled me with terror. Who knew what potential hazards and heartaches my future held? Would I read my entries from 2015 five years later with a grimace over my naivete of what was to come? Sometimes my blog is like that. When I go back to the beginning of 2020, we had no how our lives were about to change. And in all honesty, I don't have a lot of faith in 2021 either. Thank goodness God doesn't reveal the future to us ahead of time. Can you imagine how much anxiety I would've had knowing what was coming at this time last year? And thank goodness he is sovereign, and has it all under control. Haha. Anyway, here are highlights (and lowlights?) of 2020. - One of my resolutions for 2020 was to work o

 Christmas!!!!!!! But first, some other stuff. 1. Honestly, the whole week has been pretty much just preparing for Christmas and finishing up our Advent activities. I got real lazy and didn't do much cute staging for the last few. Sunday night we attempted to make overnight cinnamon rolls, so we would have a delicious treat for the first day of Christmas break. Something went terribly wrong though, and the dough was extremely dense/did not rise at all. I think my yeast was too old. So I ended up making the non-overnight kind that morning. They were delicious anyway. 2. I decided to see how many books I could read during Christmas break. At the beginning of the week I was at 79 books for the year and I thought, "11 more to get to 100? No problem." Then I re-did the math and realized that's 21, not 11!  I read fast, but even I don't read more than one book a day. Haha. Anyway, I read 3 this week, bringing my total to 81 for the year. But I'll probably read a few