Happy New Year! 2021 was an interesting year. I felt like it flew by, and yet lasted forever.
I remember waiting until the ball dropped on TV for the start of 2021. I remember thinking “great 2020 is finally over” (That will be a year for the history books)
I remember looking around what is normally a busy Times Square to see empty streets because of the pandemic.
This year we have been able to get back to a more normal life (will life ever be normal again?) but this year the streets were once again filled with people.
I think that 2021 was a pretty great year. A lot of things happened that helped me to grow as a person.
In January of 2021, I started playing an acoustic guitar that I bought with a gift card I had gotten at Christmas.
I didn’t realize that then, but I would grow to love playing guitar.
At the beginning of February, I started graduate school. That was a whole adventure, I was a few credits short of getting in the program, but they made an exception and here I am today.
Then a few months after that, I left my job. I knew that God was calling me to do something else this school year, but that did not make leaving any easier.
In July my husband and I finally had our wedding (since we didn’t get to have one in the craziness of 2020). It was perfect.
In August, we went to a friend’s wedding out of state. It was so much fun to get to be a part of their wedding and see them start their life together.
September I started my new job as a substitute teacher. I currently have a love/hate relationship with this job. I love how convenient it is. I can work any day I want, and am able to take a day off a week and study, but I hate not being able to build relationships with the kids (since I am in a different school every day). This is definitely something that I love having for sake of convenience during grad school, but would not want to do it forever.
Also in September, I started my first field experience. This was a great experience to work with another teacher in my field and see how to run a classroom.
October, November, and December all feel like a blur in my mind. It feels like just yesterday I carved pumpkins with my husband, but I guess at this point that was months ago.
In December we finally had a family Christmas for the first time since 2019. It was great to see everyone.
Then over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, I got very sick. (I tested negative for Covid though). It was not much fun being sick over Christmas and having to miss out on half of the plans that we had.
Then I took all of the gift cards I got this year, and some money I saved up and bought a really nice guitar. I think it is interesting that a year ago I bought a small acoustic knowing nothing about guitars, and here I am today waiting for this guitar to arrive. (It’s supposed to get her tomorrow).
New Year’s Eve came which is my husband’s birthday, and the anniversary of the day he proposed. We celebrated together and went out to eat, and just like that the year was over.
Here it is already Janurary. . .I have a lot to do this month. Everything from going back to work, to finishing a lengthy paper, to taking my educator exams to be one step closer to my teaching certificate. All that is just this month!
I can’t even imagine how crazy the rest of the year is going to be.
I do know one thing though. . .The only reason I got this far is because I have a pretty amazing God. I don’t think he’s going to leave me in 2022.
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