December 31, 2020 - Thursday (87/365)


Day 87 of my 365 Photo Journal

It's NEW YEARS EVE!!! We have BIG plans for the night. We're going to start out with a sick family, throw in some early bed times for the two littlest kids, break out the sparkling cider and board games, and barely make it to midnight with Jonas and Clemi! 🎉🥳 Truly though, it should be a nice night. Jonas and Clemi are SO excited to stay up late and bang pots and pans outside at 12:00am and I can't help but be excited with them. I'll just have to get over the fact that I didn't get nearly enough sleep last night and am existing purely as a zombie-mom right now. 

2020 was a terrible year for our nation, but personally, it was a good year for our family. I'm not sad to see it go and, yet, I don't have very high hopes for 2021 either. I think it will be just about the same bad and good as 2020, honestly. 🤷 We'll have to see how it goes! I'll write my New Year's Resolutions in tomorrow's post. I've been thinking about them a lot and what it means to allow yourself grace, but also still strive for self-improvement. I have SO MANY areas in which I could use improvement - pretty much, every area of my entire life. I also don't want to set goals that will be unattainable for me and then make me feel more like a failure when I realize that I can't do it all! But still, I have a few in mind and I just need a little more time to think about and fine tune them. 

Update on Ollie from yesterday: she slept through the night and is SO much better today! Thank God!!

Now, to the point of this blog. Photography. I took so many fun pictures yesterday! It's still morning right now, so I dug into that file and am using this picture of Ruby with Murph. After talking with Alisha yesterday, I realize I haven't been posting updates of my most wonderful, adorable, sweet kitty lately! I have to get some of him up, because I definitely am still taking pics of him every chance I get. He's just the cutest. 😍 And I will most definitely post some photos from tonight in tomorrow's post. Hopefully something sparkly and New Years-feeling? We'll see! As has been noted many times, I'm not the best low-light photographer. Here's to trying and trying and trying and trying!


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