December to New Year 2024

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We celebrated in style with a PJ New Year’s Eve party at Dahlman Cellars’ Winery. It was a great get together with good food, inspiring people, amazing wine, and trivia games to bring in the New Year. It was the first grown New Years we have had in a long time! I like meeting people but it makes me so nervous so most of the time I bale out. 

2023 flew by. It was an extremely hard one as I tried to manage my mom and dad’s finances, our home, and watching us almost lose my dad several times to sickness. 

2024 should be better.

I want to connect more this year with friends, get back into Keto, exercise, save, pay taxes, and prepare for England/Ireland 2025.

I want to blog more. I need to document our lives and Charlie’s last few years at home!



















































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