Week 42 at Home: The End of 2020...Hooray!

We survived 2020! What.a.year, amirite? But, as I've been saying all throughout the last loooong nine months, there were really good things that happened, like more family time, or proving that working from home full-time can be a real thing, or...saving a lot of money because we aren't going out as much? I don't know about that...Door Dash has become our new best friend this year. At least we're buying local to support nearby restaurants/our economy.

We really enjoyed this week off of work and school. We tackled some pretty big projects (Ava cleared out all of her Barbies, so now two neighbor girls have lots of new dolls/accessories to play with) and my "vacation to-do" list is in a great place for when we all go back to school and work on Monday. Scott has been hard at work on the cabinets/doors for the bar...they look great, so far!

Ava and I made chicken dumpling soup one night this week...we love the Raddish kids cooking kits that we get each month. I especially like them since I'm not a big cook, and these are easy, fun, and yummy recipes to make. Also from Decembers kit...G and I made chocolate snowball cookies on Friday. They don't look as pretty as expected, but they taste great.

Ava stole my phone for a weird selfie ;)

For the last 20+ years, we've celebrated NYE with our friends, but this year, we were keeping it safe, and stayed at home. None of us really wanted to stay at home, but thought it was the best thing to do. All I know is that in 2021, we're going to make up for everything that was missed! We wanted to make it a special night since we weren't going to see our friends, so I picked up some fun apps...a baguette/brie, shrimp, a meat/cheese/cracker tray, and all of the fixins to make a sparkling berry fondue. That was super messy to make, but it tasted SO good. I subbed the sparkling wine for sparkling grape juice, but did add Chambord to the mix. We had fun dunking a dense lemon bread into the fondue, and are looking forward to making more fondue recipes in the future.

We all stayed up until midnight. I don't think any of us thought that was possible!

Puppy photobombed this one

Here's to a new year, a new start, and great (we hope) things to come! Welcome 2021!

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