Well. It is Christmas time 2020. Aka our first [and hopefully last?] holiday season mid-pandemic. I want to say 'who knew that almost a year later we would still be here'-but with the way things are going, I think there is a good chance that we are going to be feeling the effects of this for a long time to come, although it will get markedly better. Still-life keeps moving and we do our best with it!

That said, things have looked different this year with how we have been celebrating the beginning of this month. In the past, we've always gotten together for lots of parties and get togethers with people. This year, we have spent more time indoors, just us, doing lots of crafts and activities. It has been slower paced and a different type of fun. We've picked out holiday books for each day December, painted some wrapping paper, and stuck them all under the tree to enjoy all season long. We've done gingerbread houses, movie nights with hot chocolate and baking, done countless snow angels and built a real, legit snow women [her name is Naomi and she is very loved]. We've decorate and re-decorated a million times, and had done sleepovers under the tree lights in the living room while listening to music and stories, and watching the snow fall outside. We've done art projects and baked a millions different things, had family sing alongs, and enjoyed a fun night of Hannukuh with Becca. We've talked to our families and friends through zoom and other platforms and had many fun nights of that and other things...

Since then, so much life and living has happened. But I think that will be for me to write down and reflect on in the next few days. So for tonight, this is enough.