Good Bye 2020

 New Year's Eve

Some years are harder than others, but in my lifetime 2020 has been the hardest for our country. Collectively we were ready to say good-bye. Our annual New Year's Eve party wasn't even a consideration this year but we still wanted to celebrate and start the year off in a memorable way. Jim had to work but we expected him home in plenty of time to ring in the New Year.

I was having a hard time thinking about NYE, it has been focused on hanging out with friends for so many years. It doesn't have the religious celebration, or gifts or food focus that Thanksgiving or Christmas do and I was feeling sad about it.  

Megan asked everyone to dress up, so we did. She set a beautiful tone and I was glad to follow her lead. She wore a fun black velvet dress she found at a thrift store over the summer. The rest of us found fun dressy outfits. We put on makeup and got out our high heels. It felt special. We made some of our NYE party standard foods. Rolo walnut pretzels, and artichoke bread, plus meat slices, cheeses and crackers. It wasn't a proper dinner in any way but it was fun and yummy.  I got supplies to make the sherbet punch and pulled out Grandma Claudia Jauquet's wine glasses. Johanna and I made an Apple Crumble. 

We had 6 hours to fill, so we got to work on a new puzzle of Cat singing a Christmas Chorus. The girls and I played cards (James Bond) and we took photos in our fancy outfits. We sipped from our crystal and chatted and played music.  It was a ton of fun.

Jim got home and joined our fun. He put on a dress shirt and we soon played a Kehrman 2020 themed game of charades. It made me laugh and reminisce. Despite all of the lost things this year we had a lot of be thankful for. Some clues were global, like the Australian fires, and some political, like the fly on VP Pence's head during the debates, but most of them were family focused like Megan's clue of Girl Scout Camp day, and Papa's building the Lego tree.

We turned on the TV to watch the ball drop and then went unto the front porch to loudly greet the new year. Megan grabbed the vuvuzela and Hanna grabbed a party horn. Some neighbors up on the hill had quite the fireworks display. We welcome 2021 and pray for a year in which all things can work toward God's Glory.

Happy New Year!