New Year

Another year has come…and I look back at it and I am grateful…. We had a son graduate from college. He graduated from Mizzou, from the school of Journalism.

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My eldest stepdaughter graduated from Penn with her doctorate in Microbiology. She then got engaged……

For fun trips this year we had a few….

We went to Tucson, Las Vegas, Arkansas, and Cozumel. Had some fun weekend getaways…..

Ellianna enjoyed swimming and art classes…she continued in violin….

We had some fun events at our store…

We adopted a rescue dog from the shelter….

We had to say goodby to our Charlie dog that we have loved for over ten years….

I started a new program called Red Nose Readers which has gone over really well at area schools and have several bookings for the month of January….

I was scared to start this program and overcame a lot of fear…

I clowned at a lot of events ….

Got a little better at playing keyboard at our church….

My goals each year are simple….last year it was to live more simply, travel more, less things, more memories. I also have a full year of working out behind me as well. December was a dumpster fire for the gym though…but this week we will be back at it.

We hope to get one of the trips we were to take when Covid hit…and we hope to travel more. We have a wedding to attend in the fall. Marks eldest daughter will say I do.

I plan on attending clown school for the third time…I’m hoping to be stretched…I will be going without my bestie clown friend this year and I frankly, am scared…but I know this is the next step I must take.

As we get older we work harder to keep our bodies in shape. This year that will continue. We want to be able to hike well into our 70s and maybe 80s. I want to be an active clown…and I can’t do that if I’m not in shape.

Hope repairs will continue…two big projects we were not able to accomplish last year.

Ellie needs to learn how to drive this year…and Trey will be figuring out which career path he wants….

We continue to navigate our store and all the improvements and exciting events we want to plan as we continue…

May you have an amazing 2023…as for me…I don’t need amazing…but peaceful…peaceful would be great.