EKjourney Backup

January/February are the usually the months when Cabin Fever hits me hard.  I am restless and ready for the dark gray season to be over.  This year brought a particularly distracting element that took my mind off of Cabin Fever and on to a bit of a crisis when it came to "the future". First, with the breech of the Capitol in Washington DC, the protest of more than 500,000 Trump supporters calling for election integrity became a tarnished mess when a group of them went rogue.  The liberals immediately set about trying to impeach the president even after the new administration was sworn it.  Biden set to work undoing everything the previous administration had worked to implement signing an astonishing 30 executive orders in the first 3 days...many of which are a mockery to the word of God and thrusting us back into a globalist and relativist (morality is relative) way of running the country.  The Democrat led lock downs in the blue states immediately began to ease...

Brighton is 11!  I can't believe we are a decade plus 1 from that chubby, nearly 9 month old baby, where I earned my confidence with newborns...and then lost it with toddlers LOL! What an education it has been learning to be Brighton's mother.  I have had to rethink and relearn what I thought I knew and come face to face with my own shortcomings. I just couldn't help but use several pictures from his first few days of life: Is it possible that my current 3 teens were ever this small? And that Phil was ever this not gray haired? Then and now... Family movie, pizza, and ice cream cones to celebrate. When family got back from vacation we had a family party and a proper cake made by Auntie Tina.  (I did feel bad because I had to tell both Brighton and Glorielle that we couldn't do friend parties this year.)

The days leading up to the week of Christmas were difficult.  It seems like every year, I have in my mind that there might be rest during the holiday season but despite covid, it seemed like this year was as busy as ever with a filled calendar and trying to pull everything together by the holidays.   Despite a lot of unforeseen circumstances, Christmas came together beautifully and I did end up feeling relaxed and refreshed over the actual holidays and I was grateful for that.  I always sigh in relief when the holidays pass knowing I have a week to catch my breath before we return to normal.   I made a winter display on the cabinet top and then took the tree down a little early this year. The corner was begging for a little more light so we borrowed this lamp from my parents. Because this year wasn't crazy enough, we, on the spur of the moment, decide to dive into working on finish work in the house.  First up, the kitchen! Phil is so handy!  We chose ...