I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! Time to get ready to head into the year 2025, and I have a feeling it will be another busy and crazy year. Like I said before, I am turning 50, and both of my kids are graduating, one from college and the other from high school.

My last full personal update was in August (read it here if you missed it), where I talked about my blogging struggles in 2024 with Artificial Intelligence on Google now and the Pinterest changes that have had a devastating impact on my blog. I haven’t given up, though, because I love my blog and being able to create things at home. That is where my heart is. I just don’t know where this is heading and if I will be able to financially keep doing it.
My daughter had a horrible case of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease during the end of her soccer season, but she thankfully recovered again in time to participate in the last playoff games.
Her high school soccer team won districts for the first time in school history, which was a big deal for sure and a great ending to her soccer career since she won’t be playing in college. She got excepted to her two top picks which are the University of Pittsburg and (just like our son) Temple University. She wants to be in the city too. I seriously don’t know if I can handle another kid in Philly but I also like having them closer. The drive to Pittsburg is way too long and boring.


Before Christmas, I also wrote a blog post about my favorite things I bought in 2024 (find it here if you missed it). After writing that blog post, I treated myself to a new mirror for our living room because I was just over the boho raffia mirror. It’s still pretty but I wanted something more traditional. Look at the beauty I found and I got it for a great price! It has a wooden gold antique finish with floral carving. Find it HERE.

In that blog post, I also wrote an update about our kitties, which are doing great! So you can catch up about them by clicking here.

I also got to go home to visit my family for ten days right before Thanksgiving which was great but over way too fast, and I didn’t really take a lot of photos. Plus, my brother doesn’t like photos of his kids on the internet and social media.