A lot happened in 2020, aside from the global pandemic I mean. A lot happened in my family. Looking at the date of my last post I can give you a rundown of what else we experienced.
- In regard to the kitchen refresh, my husband covered our countertops with laminate providing the final touch to our kitchen projects.
- On that same day I realized my girls had lice and I spent almost a month getting them completely eradicated. As a black woman I had never experienced lice before and did not realize they had them for a while. The mom guilt was crazy but the work involved to deal with them was even worse. Thankful on the first day I had my mom, sister, and a friend to help comb through all three of my girls’ hair, plus I was treated as well. I still have flashbacks to that time and hope to never experience it again.
- My parents bought a camper for us to flip, which we did in about a month’s time. Just in time for us to take it out for my 30th birthday. All I wanted for my birthday was to not spend it in my house and at the time, camping was the best pandemic friendly travel. We didn’t go far, but it was a nice change of scenery.
- We took a lovely pandemic friendly vacation to our favorite place, Massanutten, VA. Complete with long walks with the girls, trips to the park, and a flooded condo that caused us to be moved halfway through our stay. It was honestly a great time.
- Finally, we decided that since we had worked so hard making our current house beautiful, it just made sense to sell it and move to a new house where we could start all new projects – sarcasm alert! But we did list our house and it sold in four days, unfortunately that meant we had 21 days to find a house. We had 3 rejected offers and were almost out bid on our current house. It was a stressful whirlwind, but we now live on a 1 acre piece of land in our desired city in a house that we have been slowly making our own.
- Finally, about 1 month after moving we got the dreaded C-sickness and I feel like we lost a month of our lives once we were completely over it. Thankfully we have had no known lingering effects.
Last but not least, while it didn’t happen in 2020 I feel it is important to add that in 2023 we became a family of six. When our son was born he became the perfect bookend to our family and I cannot imagine our lives without him.
Martina