One Year
December 30, 2020
Today Sean is one year old. For the past year, most days, I have been recording some of the things I am most grateful for and my favorite memories of each day. Here are just a few of them.
- Our summer camp routine
- My new minivan
- Working at home
- Birthday takeout
- Our home
- Getting up early
- Coffee while watching Sean
- Mike cooking on the weekends
- Being home with the kids
- Our dining room bench
- Big bedroom window
- Cool breeze
- Morning runs
- Rabbits
- Paw Patrol Dino Rescue
- Grilling
- Listening to Mike’s heartbeat
- Bowl of oatmeal with apples, peanut butter, cinnamon, and honey
- Good books
- Drive-in church
- Inflatable pool
- Watching fireworks from our backyard
- Water balloon fight
- Playing doctor with Maggie
- Driving by our old house with the kids
- Boat ride at my dad’s lake house
- Ice cream date with Maggie
- Sean playing with the car ramp
- Playing at the river with the kids
- Working out at sunset
- Singing humpy dumpy then having Sean “fall” into the pool
- The first day of virtual school
- Planking for three minutes
- Apple picking date with Maggie
- Bike ride date with Matthew
- Running a 10K in the autumn colors
- Leaves falling and bonfire at outdoor church service
- Sean playing with a hula hoop in the backyard
- Ice cream with Mike in front of Pioneer
- Reading the bible with Matthew under a blanket in his bedroom
- Going to get donuts with Maggie on Halloween morning and seeing the full moon
- Snow falling outside the office window while doing school with Matthew
- Eating my aunt’s pumpkin bread in my dining room
- Maggie saying what she is grateful for, the good part of her day, and the hard part of her day.
- Dancing to Christmas music while making pancakes.
- Watching Frosty and then watching Frosty again
- Advent activities and Christmas books
- Arboretum lights with the kids in their Christmas jammies
- Kids insisting to do what they call “spring” school again during Thanksgiving break
- 2020 hasn’t been so bad.