Lifeboats
a list of things that didn't suck this year
New music from Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga & The Chicks
Fresh baked bread (here’s to all the feelings I ate this year!)
The Baby Jude. (my nephew who was born in January and is our family obsession)
Schitt’s Creek (which I’ve watched all the way through 5x?). Watching The Office for the very first time (I love Dwight and I’m pretty sure Pretzel Day was inspired by me). Ted Lasso (which I discovered binge listening to Brene’s podcast).
Books: Native (Kaitlin B. Curtice) Untamed (Glennon Doyle) Fierce, Free, Full of Fire (Jen Hatmaker) An American Marriage (Tayari Jones) Such a Fun Age (Kiley Reid) The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)
Building my very own garden bed and growing food that we ate. It kept me sane and made me feel like I was actually doing something.
Continuing to understand and deconstruct white supremacy in my own life, the people who teach me and the people who are also on the journey.
Mute buttons on IG and FB. I love people better when I am unaware of what conspiracies they believe in (also, aides in keeping my BP down).
Having the foresight to know being locked in a closet for 20 minutes while my children “helped” me get out would bring people joy. Recorded for posterity here- https://www.facebook.com/mjthach/videos/10157702979649811
Becoming an ambassador for Noonday Collection and being part of something that inspires me to live with more intentionality in so many areas of life. Also, reconnecting with a friend from college & her friends becoming my friends.
The way my children have navigated a year when nothing and everything is the same. It took months for them to complain that Disneyland was closed or that they hadn’t seen friends because they were content being home with us. Oof. That’s humbling.
Okay, your turn…