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Honesty Hour: (Home) For the Holidays
This is supposed to be an Honesty Hour all about Christmas & the New Year & being home for the holidays. But I’ll be honest and say that the only words I have for this blog post as I’m typing it is “Merry Christmas & Happy New Year”. That’s it. All I’ve got. And this blog post goes live in less than 48 hours. Yikes. Holiday Celebrations Back when this pandemic started, I (and a lot of others I’m sure), thought it’d be over by the holidays. Life would go back to “normal”. We’d celebrate the holidays how we always have, a.k.a. with our families. But here we are. Still…
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Honesty Hour: Holidays, Traditions, & Loss
Honesty Hour: This has been the most difficult holiday season. I’ve lost 3 grandparents in 4 years. I have officially lost a whole set of grandparents. I’ve experienced 3 holiday seasons fresh off the loss of a grandparent, but this one was the worst. It was full of changes (which I am notorious for not being good at). It was about shifting traditions & making the most of it. I am a lover of tradition & the last 4 years (5 if you include the year my cousin got married) those traditions have fallen away completely or have shifted. This year, instead of solely focusing on (& being bummed over)…
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Daytrip to Dahlonega, GA
I think sometimes we say things like “Let’s do ___!” and then we never actually do said thing for a variety of reasons. When Macy (my sister) suggested we go to Dahlonega for a daytrip to see the quaint town and their Christmas decorations and do some shopping, she made sure it didn’t turn into one of those situations where we never ended up doing it. We went on Monday with our mom, Grammy, and a family friend to explore the quaint little town. They had a beautiful tree with reindeer and a sleigh and a cute little box for letters for Santa. That scene felt straight out of a…
