2025 Hangover: Slapped by the New Year

Who is ready for 2026? 

Not me. 

Nonetheless, here we are.

Year in review (bucket list and BIG things only):

• Celebrated 25 years of marriage
• Did the sunrise/sunset challenge in Florida (one coast to the other in the same 24 hours)
• Taught weekly co-op classes
• Cast and recast and recast again for Immortal (15 cast members -- from across the country)
• Scheduled & ran 3 weeks of rehearsals (booking venues, tech, rearranging schedules due to sickness -- kill me now!)
• Produced a professional staged reading of IMMORTAL the Musical
• Took an EMERGENCY trip to England to pick up our daughter up from her mission -- who had wasted away due to health issues (a three-day whirlwind - Iceland, Ireland, Bristol England, London England, Columbia, and home)
• Discovered our daughter's two-hundred-fifty+ food intolerances, hypoglycemia, and worked to get her calorie and energy levels up while she completed a service mission locally
• Started treatment for my faulty hip
• Went on an unplanned 2 week road trip to see historical sites (and ran into my brother...surprise!)
• Planned and ran activities for 15-20 girls twice a month
• RETURNED TO BLOGGING (could you tell?)
• Welcomed our oldest and his wife back to Florida (after they both graduated with their degrees)
• My youngest got baptised
• Hypoglycemic daughter finished her service mission, got a near-impossible-to-land job and got into a near-impossible-to-land university
• Built a video recording studio and started a YouTube channel and major social media campaign with daily video content
• Bypassed one potential trail date for defaulty construction on our house (3 years in the works now) and began negotiations again (undergone mold treatment, structural engineer investigation, and had WAY to many people telling us our house is trashed)
• Led a choir & performed in so, so many venues
• Homeschooled the kids - including challenges like dysgraphia
• Read approximately 100 novels (this doesn't include children's books and study materials...of which there were many)

And so if you couldn't even read that whole list, imagine living it. 

Nonetheless, we will brave forward with 2026. 

Because we must. 

Because there is no other choice.

And while we're at it, we're going to have a good attitude -- because life just goes smoother when you see the bumps as growth opportunities.

To start this year right, I'm on a cruise (which was almost free so don't get too jealous). I'll be around next week to say "Hi" and share some virtual cheese.

Here's to an epic one! Wishing you the best 2026.

Thank you to our awesome co-hosts are Shannon Lawrence, Olga Godim, Jean Davis, and Jacqui Murray!

What's the craziest thing you did this last year? What are you most looking forward to in 2026?