I can never get it together soon enough to send out Christmas cards. Some years I even buy Christmas cards, address them, write in them, then fail to send them in time and bail.
This year I’m going to try what seems like a fail-proof plan: blog my Christmas card. No excuses. If your reading this on Christmas Eve, I did it! If not… I’m hopeless.
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Last Christmas my house looked like a Christmas card. I do miss my spruces.
This year it’s not exactly quintessential Christmas vibes. Then again, apart from my snowblower feeling utterly useless, and our watershed having way not enough water, it’s ok with me that we don’t have a foot of snow. Lacking climatic cues though, Christmas really snuck up on me.
The year in review
(The Christmas letter section)
This has been another big year with lots of changes. Highlights include:
Went late night Aurora hunting. 
Saw northern lights. 
I touched a glacier! 
Saw starfish… 
…porcupines… 
…bears… 
…deer! 
Grew a garden from seeds 
So many seeds 
Built a trellis with the kids next door 
Learned to drone and edit videos 
Rented a uhaul when my car broke down 
Painted lots of things on my house 
Jumped in the lake 
Kayaked! 
Made bagels 
Dyed my hair purple for a day 
Watched midnight fireworks 
Made Detroit style pizza from scratch 
Enjoyed another summer in Juneau with my parents 
Made friends. 
Sold my first house 
Used a fancy bidet for the first time 
Rode a ferry for 2.5 days from Alaska 
Checked out Denver’s Meow Wolf 
Bought a condo 
Helped get a puppy adopted 
Reunited with aspens 
More puppies 
Installed a spice rack 
Reunited with IKEA 
Ripped a towel bar out of the wall 
Broke a finger 
Built a gnome 
Got so many vaccines 
Saw fossils 
Chilled. 
Made pie crust from scratch 
Played my first round of disc golf! 
Installed a squirrel feeder 
Threw my first pots 
Built a standing desk
Looking forward to a new year
I can’t imagine the adventures that await me in the upcoming year. I do miss the adventures that regularly showed up on my doorstep in Juneau, but I’m looking forward to getting back into some activities that the “big city” offers. I think I’d like to:
- Bring music back into daily life.
- Continue my new yoga practice I’ve started since moving.
- Cook and bake all the things.
- Spend less time with computers and my phone.
- Get a dog and take them on lots of adventures.
- Visit friends.
- Re-establish some daily habits that evaporated during the quarantine black hole (you know like getting dressed and leaving the house every day…)
- Learn something new.
- Be patient.
Hope to see you soon!
I’ve done my best to try to stay connected with people through this mess, but I haven’t been entirely successful. I’m looking forward to a little more travel, visiting, and connection in the upcoming year. I hope our paths cross soon!
Love,
Liz
ROAD TRIP 
Your Christmas card is beautiful! What a year.
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Oh gosh, so much fit into one year!! But I especially love the ending and hope to see sometime this next 2022! Love ya!
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For some reason I totally missed your amazing Christmas greetings. As usual, so creative and amazing. The comparative Christmas Eve photo was interesting.
I know u will have another adventurous year. And no shortage of projects! I hope to hear more about your gardening and puppy fostering. Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Love, Sharon.
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