December Highlights

I can't belive it's 2021!! I'm not thinking this year is going to magically fix anything, but it is nice to have 2020 behind me!

After bible study, one day me and my sisters got ice cream and ate it by the huge Christmas tree in our town's square. It was pretty fun, even though it was freezing! 

I got my hair cut. It was just three inches, but I was very happy about it. =)

My brother moved into his own apartment to be closer to his work so we rearranged a lot of of the house after that. It was pretty stressful having the whole house out of wack for so long, but it's settling out now. And I got a new bookcase, which is the best thing that has come from all of this. XD

After my last day of work for the semester (My babysitting just goes with the school year), two of my sisters met me for lunch at CiCi's, which was like eating memories. XD It was fantastic. They had a few games you could play for a quarter, so we played one a few times for fun. We got a few cheap necklaces and a lot of fun memories. 

My family spent the day walking around the San Antonio Missions. It looked a little different this year since so many things were closed, but we got to do a lot. We ended the night by going to see a really impressive Christmas light display, and we ran into one of the family's I babysit for, which was super fun!

I spent a lot of time in December watching random Hallmarks, making cookies, wrapping up gifts, and trying to keep my cat from eating ribbon (She had a weird obsession). 

I attended my first online wedding. It was surprisingly nice to be able to just sit in comfy clothes for the wedding and be able to just shut it off when it was over. Also, I almost cried because it was a beautiful ceremony. 

My sister and I went to a Christmas eve service and in the middle of the message, one of my favorite kids I babysit looked over at me and shouted hello from three isles down. XD Thankfully he didn't do it too loud, but I was still having to hold in a laugh. 

My family always celebrated Christmas alone, so not much was different this year. We opened presents pretty slowly throughout the morning, played some games, and took a nice long walk because the weather was amazing. It was a very nice day. I didn't feel as excited leading up to Christmas as I normally do, but it was still a very nice day. 

After Christmas, I seized some time to declutter my closet. I finally let go of a lot of clothes that I didn't like anymore, and a bunch of random stuff that had gotten thrown in there. It felt good. 

My sister and I attended our young adult's group New years eve party. We didn't get to stay till midnight, but we did get to play several rounds of Empires, which was really fun. I actually won a round! (If you haven't played Empires I highly recommend it). Then we sat in my mom's room and heralded in 2021 together. 

Not gonna lie, December was not a great month for me. I don't do well with change, and for a lot of different reasons, this month was chock-full of it. I didn't feel super excited for Christmas, but I did enjoy it when it came. I let a lot of things stress me out that shouldn't have. But I'm super grateful to my awesome family and friends for supporting me this month. <3 

The only new books I read were the two on the bottom, and I was not super impressed with either, but I loved re-reading Interview with the Robot and The Green Ember. =D

Sorry I don't have my movies on here. I ran out of time. The gist of it is I watched cheesy Hallmarks, How To Train Your Dragon, and Toy Story 2. XD

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How was your Christmas? Any big plans for 2021?