Time flies again…

Every time I plan on regularly updating this blog, something happens and I end up not touching it for weeks. In this case, it was just life.

Updates from my last post:

• Little Miss Minion’s teeth: she has now lost two total and one of her front teeth is loose now as well.
• I still love my job! I’m actually updating this at work, since all of my patients are sleeping. I get to play with them for about two hours while I do my shift assessment, pass medications, and get them ready for bed. If the night is smooth, I have time to work on my BSN work in between meds and assessments. Night shift is awesome.
• Girl Scout camping was definitely an experience. It was hot, fun, and I think I am good on camping. I’m more of an indoor girl anyway.

New things since July:

• We went on a Disney trip in September. We did several days at Disney World and then did a three-night Disney cruise on the new ship, the Wish. It was a great trip and LMM had a lot of fun.
• We expanded our patio under the new cover that Mr Minion and the neighbors built over the spring/summer. I have never handled concrete before and it was interesting. My legs are completely bruised up from kneeling and crawling around on the gravel and the ground. The day we poured the concrete was 80 degrees. The next day it was like 40. Perfect timing.
• We finally got LMM baptized. This has been a journey–we didn’t want to do it while she was in the NICU because it felt like we were giving up on her. We couldn’t do it after that because of preemie isolation. Then we moved and didn’t want to get her baptized without having a “home church.” Then Covid hit, and we didn’t want to test her lungs on that virus. So now, we finally did it.
• My BSN program is going well. My first class was almost entirely just writing papers, which was pretty simple. This class is on pharmacology and is more in-depth, but most of the material was covered in my ADN program so its kind of a review, which is nice.
• I signed up to help with my nursing program’s disaster day program. This is done during the last semester of the program as a way to practice all of the skills that have been covered. I will have been working the night before, so it should be fun.

I set myself a goal to read 100 books this year, and I just hit 75 the other day. I’m behind schedule, since I actually have to work now (LOL), but I think there’s a decent chance that I will catch up and hit the goal.

It’s almost time for my next assessment, so I will do my best to update again soon. Happy Fall!

Summer of Firsts

Happy summer break! It is crazy to think that there is really only a month left of summer vacation. Its been a busy season for the Minion household.

Recap of Firsts

• Little Miss Minion lost her first tooth! I think she is the last one of her friends to lose one, so she’s been looking forward to this for months. She was soooo excited when she was finally able to pull it out. The Tooth Fairy visited and left her some coins in exchange for the tooth.
• Mr Minion quit his job and is staying home with LMM for the summer. Since I am back at work, he gets to spend time with LMM and enjoy himself for once. Its been a long two years since I quit, plus the added stress of the pandemic and LMM starting school.
• I passed the NCLEX! I am now officially a Registered Nurse!
• I started my new job and it is incredible. I’m working at a pediatric hospital for medically complex kiddos so there is a lot for me to see and learn. On day 1, we played hide and seek with the Jack-and-Jill bathroom. My preceptor would hide in the bathroom and then sneak out the other door while the kids tried to open the first door. Then she would pop up from around the corner and surprise them. On my second day, one of the kids chased me around with a toy chainsaw. It was fantastic.
• I switch to night shift this week, and I am so excited. Day shifts feel like they never end, whereas nights never seem as long. Maybe I’m just a night owl. Night owl/vampire.
• This week, LMM and I will be going on a Girl Scout camping trip overnight. I have never been camping before, as I am more of an indoor girl. It is supposed to be 93 with a 50/50 of storms, so this should be interesting. We will be staying in something called a “permanent tent,” which appears to be a canvas sided tent up on a deck-like platform that is about 2 feet off the ground. So no air conditioning, no windows, no electricity…thankfully there are actual toilets though, so I’m counting that as a win.
• Our campout events include swimming, canoeing (which I have never done), hiking, and then some crafting activities. As long we both make it out without heatstroke, I will be thrilled.

I start school online for my (second) Bachelor’s Degree on August 1. The program is set up in 8 week chunks where you take one class at a time, so I will be starting the first session soon. My clinical preceptor from nursing school went through this same program and she liked it, so I am hoping I can keep up with work and school. I’ve been told there are a lot of papers to write, which works out really well for me since I love to write.

Off to pack for this week’s adventure!

Mrs Minion, RN

Hi again…

So apparently my last update was January? I swear it was like a week ago.

Little Miss Minion Updates:

1. She finished kindergarten a couple days ago! She’s doing a summer program through the school district that starts on Monday, so she’s still “going to school.” She has several best friends, including a second grader who walks with her every day from the school to the pick up area where I wait for her.
2. She is starting swim classes again! She’s signed up for pretty much the entire summer, which will give us something to do that isn’t outside (pool is indoors).
3. She turned 6 in May!

Mrs Minion Updates:

1. I finished another semester of nursing school, so I am officially halfway through the program with a 4.0!
2. The vaccine clinics were awesome! I heard so many stories about how excited people were to be getting their shots. I had people talking about being able to see kids, grandkids, great-grandkids again, being able to go to the store without worrying about bringing the virus to loved ones. I had lots of older people who hadn’t seen their families in person for over a year.
3. I was invited to a nursing honor society and accepted membership.
4. I think my school will be back on campus next semester, which is honestly kind of a bummer because I really liked online classes. Labs and clinicals have been in person this whole time, but online lecture was nice.

Mr Minion Updates:

1. Managed to surprise me (and LMM) with a trip to Disneyworld for her birthday! His parents joined us and we had a great time. Galaxy’s Edge (Star Wars land, basically) was AWESOME and he talked one of the cast members into hooking us up with pilot seats for Smuggler’s Run, which means that we piloted the Millennium Falcon! LMM was tall enough for most of the rides, including Tower of Terror. Her comment after that ride was something like “I really liked that one but I don’t want to go on it again. Ever.” She liked Pirates of the Caribbean as well, and enjoyed trying to find Captain Jack Sparrow in all the scenes.
2. Scored a pallet of potting soil for the same price as regular dirt, so our garden is going absolutely NUTS this year. We’ve got two kinds of tomatoes, sweet peppers, bell peppers, jalapenos, onions, scallions, carrots, and green beans, plus a volunteer romaine lettuce that popped up and garlic that came back from last year.
3. Mr Minion also continues to be his fantastic self.

Other cool things:

LMM is learning to read, so one of her favorite things to do at the moment is to sit next to me on the couch and read sight words from whatever book I’m reading. We got her final report card and she’s got all 3’s (the highest score) in math as well, which is nice. She likes to draw shapes and have us guess what they are. We always guess wrong, so then she can tell us that “no, Mama, that’s a hexagon.” Because duh, its clearly a hexagon.

We got to see my mom for the first time in like a year and half, since everyone is vaccinated and cases are steadily going down. LMM showed off her school, the playgrounds, we went to the local park, they had tea parties. Hopefully it will be cooler the next time she comes into town so we can actually go do things outside without burning up.

We got a cat in the spring! She’s 7 and doesn’t jump on anything but the couch, which is awesome. She prefers to sit on someone’s lap and curl up, but LMM likes to “go fishing for the cat” with a string tied to a dowel.

LMM finally got to meet some of my old coworkers the other day. My work BFF, Miss K, is retiring soon so LMM and I crashed her retirement party. I had never been able to bring LMM up there because its a heavily traveled building with lots of people everywhere and I was worried about her preemie lungs and immune system. Last year, after I quit, the office was reorganized and moved to an area without direct access by the general public, so the only people up there are the people who work there. I’m glad we were able to make it and surprise Miss K, and LMM wanted to go back there this morning for more snacks.

Plans for the summer include: keeping up on the garden, swim class for LMM, study group for me to get ahead of next semester, and trying to stay cool outside.

Time Flies…

First of all–updates on the Minion Family:

Mrs. Minion: The first semester of nursing school is officially over and your favorite future nurse has a 4.0! I actually scored a 98.11% in the class, so this wasn’t even a close call. The lowest “A” grade is a 93%, so I am solidly in the A zone. Scored the highest grade on 3/5 tests, plus the highest grade on the final. Yes, I’m bragging, but I’m pretty proud of myself. Virtual nursing school while facilitating virtual kindergarten is no joke.

Little Miss Minion: We have also made it to Christmas break in virtual kindergarten world! Little Miss Minion is doing pretty well, and can navigate her computer with very little prompting from me. She’s learning sight words and can recognize a decent amount of them. They do writing, math, and phonics every day, and she’s catching on pretty quickly. Getting her to sit still is sometimes a challenge, but I remember having similar struggles when I was in kindergarten. The good news is that she seems to be picking up on math better than I did. 😉 And she started Girl Scouts, although that is currently on hiatus since Covid cases here are through the roof. If you want to buy cookies, hit me up on Facebook or via email (my first and last name @ hotmail–no stalkers please. You’ll have to already know my real name😁 ). Santa brought her a scooter, so that has been entertaining to watch. She’s left footed–which is interesting to me, since she’s still writing with both hands. I’m thinking there’s a good chance she might end up being a leftie after all.

Mr. Minion: Apart from being an awesome husband and a fantastic dad, he put a gate into our back fence for easier access to some walking paths and trails. The downside of this is that we have one less excuse to go walking. He also built a custom laptop stand for me to use during class, so I can elevate my computer to a more comfortable position and still put notebooks underneath. Since I’m doing school on two tray tables, every spare inch of space counts. He also made a cookie extravaganza with Little Miss Minion for Christmas. Chocolate chip, M&M, bourbon sables (my new favorite), peanut brittle, snickerdoodles, and chocolate nests. So many cookies!!!

Since we didn’t see anyone for Christmas, I decided to try and make it extra special by making Julia Child’s boeuf bourguignon for dinner on Christmas. The long way, not my crockpot shortcut. It was delicious. While we were trying to decide on the menu for Christmas, Mr Minion suggested making something from his Titanic Cookbook. After a moment of consideration, we decided that there was no better way to throw out 2020 than by making the last meal on the Titanic on New Year’s Eve. 🤣

Upcoming Events:

• I get the first dose of the Covid vaccine in January, thanks to the hospital I volunteer with. They consider volunteers as employees for the purposes of health requirements, so I signed up. There are two doses, and I will definitely report back with my experience. I’m so excited to get vaccinated and be able to go out in public again without worrying about bringing this virus to someone who won’t be able to fight it off. Clinicals will also be way less stressful.
• Semester 2 begins in a few weeks. A friend who is a couple semesters ahead of me in the program called this semester “hell on earth” so I’m really looking forward to it. 😑
• The official 2020 summary of the books I’ve read this year will be coming soon. I set a goal of 52 books, one per week. I have crushed that goal, mostly due to the fact that we couldn’t go anywhere for most of the year.

Here’s to 2021 (almost)!

The Night Before Kindergarten

It seems impossible that five years ago, we were dealing with Little Miss Minion’s second shunt surgery and had two more to go in the next couple of months. Tomorrow, LMM will have her first day of kindergarten.

It isn’t what we thought it would be. She won’t be riding the school bus-she’ll be walking downstairs to our classroom area. She will meet her classmates and see her teacher on the computer. Lunch will be at home and recess will be held in the backyard.

She knows people are getting sick and that’s why we have to stay home most of the time. She knows we wear a mask over our faces when we do go out because we don’t want to get other people sick. Since she has no idea what she’s missing, I think this is a pretty good year for virtual school.

So tonight, we will talk more about kindergarten and what will happen tomorrow. We will tell her about how she’s going to learn so much and see new friends on the computer. How one day, she will get to see them at school. She’s going to learn to read, how to write, and how to do math.

She’s also learning to be flexible. This is not how I pictured her first day of kindergarten. But this is what her first day will be. I am not going to waste time wishing it was different. I am going to enjoy the fact that my 1 pound 14 ounce Preemie is about to start school just like every other five year old. She’s making new friends just like everyone else. She’s learning new things like everyone else. She’s learning to adapt and roll with changes. Things don’t always turn out how you think they will, but the way you think something will turn out can change what happens. She’s learning that a positive attitude is a good thing to have.

To all the kids starting school (and their parents and teachers): we will get through this together.

Back to School…?

Our local school district gave two options for this year’s school year: 100% virtual or 100% in person. After weeks of debating the merits of all the options we heard about around the country and after one week of carefully considering the actual options presented by the school, we made the decision to keep Little Miss Minion home this semester for virtual kindergarten. I am in no way saying that this is the best choice. All the options suck, for everyone. Everyone wants the best for their kids, and I fully acknowledge that we are lucky to have this option. So I write this post with the disclaimer that it contains my personal opinions and observations about our particular situation.

To the parents who are sending their kids back to school in person—you made a great choice.

To the parents who are keeping your kids home to go virtual—you made a great choice.

To the parents who are pulling their kids from the districts and doing homeschool on their own—you made a great choice.

Little Miss Minion’s pediatrician said that her lungs have likely matured to where they should be, given her respiratory illness history over the past two years. I don’t want to test this theory, but two winters ago, she had a runny nose that lasted approximately 12 hours and gave the bug to me, where it turned into a double ear infection, bronchitis, infection-induced asthma, and almost pneumonia. So clearly her lungs work better than mine on certain things. 😂 The doctor also said that she recommends mask wearing, frequent hand washing, and social distancing wherever possible to reduce the chances of catching or spreading the virus.

The fact remains that the county we live in is seeing a large uptick in cases. The schools have developed a rigorous list of precautions that will be put into place to prevent transmission. The combination of these two facts is going to make (in my opinion) a very unstable situation for consistent education. Between students being sent home for every runny nose, fever, cough, sore throat, headache, stomachache, and generally not feeling well, the teachers and staff will also be held to the same standard. Any symptoms will require a 72 hour quarantine at home after the symptoms are gone without medication. So if a student is sent home on Monday for a fever and the fever disappears the moment they exit school property, that student is not allowed back until Friday. Same thing for teachers. It is only a matter of time before there are either not enough staff to cover the students or not enough students to justify staying open.

The way we saw it, it was not so much a question of virtual or in person. It was a question of her being home from the start, with a consistent schedule and organized setup, or going to school for a few weeks, then getting sent home for a few days, then going back with a new teacher, then being sent home again, and then having to continually arrange a space and provide structure.

We are incredibly lucky that I was already planning on being home for nursing school. We were able to create a space in our basement for a shared classroom. One side is the Minion Kindergarten Academy and the other is Virtual Nursing School. The kindergarten side looks pretty good so far. The nursing side needs a little work—I had been planning on working in our office. I do have an amazing computer shelf that Mr Minion made for me to set my computer on during class. I also made a tea table area over by Miss Minion’s playroom. I’m going to move one of our kettles down there, along with a selection of tea, cups and saucers, and space for a thermos of ice—Miss Minion doesn’t like to wait for her tea to cool.

We are also incredibly lucky to have Mr Minion’s parents able to assist. With him at work, and my clinicals schedule still up in the air, they will be able to take her on those days and continue her virtual school at their house, since school goes wherever her computer goes.

We’ve had a lot of “it shouldn’t have gone this way” in our lives with Little Miss Minion. From her complicated birth, to her infection in the NICU, to her hydrocephalus, to coming home and not being able to have her around people…the list goes on. We are used to it by now, but that doesn’t make it easier.

Summer Update

It has been an interesting summer here at the Minion House. We’ve had lots of walks, lots of time “at the pool” in the backyard (kiddie pool), gardening, tomato picking, and more recently, our area has had an explosion of Covid cases for reasons I can’t get into without wanting to throw my computer through the nearest window. This recent burst of activity has thrown a wrench into the local school district’s reopening plans, and is also impacting my nursing program’s plans.

The official plan for Little Miss Minion’s school won’t be coming out until this week and we will have one week to choose which option we want to do. It sounds like there will be an all in person plan, a hybrid plan, and an all virtual plan. The district has not mentioned what the protocols will be for transportation of kids, eating lunch, bathrooms, masks, etc., but these will hopefully be addressed in the official plan. I’m curious to know what the procedures for a sick child will look like as well, since children do tend to be germ factories even when there is not a global pandemic happening. And does Little Miss Minion still have preemie lungs and a depressed immune system? I don’t want to use this disease as the test.

My school is also altering the plans, but I don’t have a clear picture of what that will look like yet. They have mentioned livestreaming lectures with the option to come in person, virtual labs with in person check off days for skills, and generally trying to give everyone the option to go online where possible. It sounds like clinical days will remain the same, but the partner hospitals have to agree and I don’t know if many of the local ones have enough PPE for their employees, let alone a bunch of students who can’t really do much in terms of patient care. They hope to have more information released this week as well.

Soapbox Moment

As a preemie mom, this pandemic is bringing back much of the same feelings that I had when we were in isolation after Little Miss Minion got out of the NICU. The silver lining of this whole situation is that our household is uniquely prepared for hunkering down, away from germs. We are used to not going to the store as a family. We don’t usually congregate in large groups of people. I have a weekly disinfecting schedule for our house. I did these things because I wanted to keep my child healthy and out of the hospital.

When I hear stories about how people are completely disregarding the recommended safety procedures because they think it is a hoax to take down a certain president, I see red. They clearly haven’t had anyone they know get sick from it (I have). They don’t know of anyone who has died from it (I do). The fact that people are refusing to wear a mask is just absolutely astonishing to me. Masks do nothing for the person wearing them, at least the ones that non-healthcare people have. The average mask is meant to contain droplets that could contain the virus. If I do wear a mask, I am keeping my droplets from coming out into the general area around me. If you are not wearing a mask, your droplets can spray all over the place and become a source of infection for other people. People who are not wearing a mask are essentially saying that they don’t care about spreading disease. They don’t care about YOU.

Some tips for reducing your exposure from a Preemie Mom who has been there:

1. If you have to go out, WEAR A MASK! There are very few legitimate reasons for not wearing one. If my five year old can wear one, so can you. If you can’t wear one, STAY HOME.
2. Stay home unless you have to go out. Please note that there is a difference between HAVE TO and WANT TO. You have to buy groceries. You don’t have to browse the sale shelves or make multiple stops because the store is out of your favorite brand of cereal. Deal with it. If you can order something online, do it. Most places have free shipping.
3. If you do have to go out, make it a quick, solo trip. You don’t need your whole family to come with you. You don’t need your spouse to come with you to the grocery store. Make a list. Get in and get out. Get everything at one place, even if this means you have to do without your favorite brand or a sale item from another store.
4. Just because you are “out” doesn’t mean that this experience counts as one exposure. Every store you set foot into is another chance to spread the virus if you are asymptomatic, or to become infected. If you don’t NEED it, do without.
5. Be smart about your surroundings. If many other people around you in the store are not wearing a mask, get out of the store.
6. If you have ANY symptoms of illness, STAY HOME. I’m always infuriated by how many people have told me “its just allergies” and then they turn out to have a cold or the flu, especially when we were isolating with Little Miss Minion.
7. When you get home, take your shoes off. Launder your mask. Wash your hands with soap. Don’t rely on hand sanitizer unless you don’t have access to soap and water. Soap is better.

The thing that makes me the most angry about this whole thing is the secondary toll that the surges are taking. Irresponsible behavior and the refusal to wear masks leads to a rise in cases, which leads to a rise in hospital beds being occupied. If all the ICU beds in an city are full of Covid patients, there is no room for the pedestrian who got hit by a car on their walk to the bus stop. There is no room for the person who is having a heart attack. There is no room for the cancer patient who is having a reaction to an unrelated virus because their immune system is already shot.

For Little Miss Minion’s last shunt surgery, we waited in the ER for several hours before a bed in the PICU opened up. And it turned out that it wasn’t even a true PICU bed, it was an overflow area that is usually reserved for pediatric cardiac patients. And that wasn’t during a pandemic. If pediatric cases increase, which they probably will if schools reopen without proper protocol, there might not be beds available for unrelated things like shunt surgeries.

Stay safe and healthy!

Don’t forget your mask!

Little Miss Minion: Volume 5

Yesterday was Little Miss Minion’s fifth birthday! I can’t believe it has already been five whole years since she was born.

Since we couldn’t have a regular party like we normally would have, the plan was to have a Yes Day and try to meet up with people on Zoom to sing happy birthday. Mr Minion took the day off from work and went out to get donuts for breakfast. After that, she got herself dressed in her Snow White dress and watched tv. She got bored of Snow White after a while and decided to be a pirate princess instead. About an hour later, it was time for Snow White again. Around noon, we had a special visitor—Nurse J from the NICU!

Little Miss Minion had requested a steak dinner, so we happily obliged and Mr Minion grilled some of the best steaks I’ve ever had. After dinner, we fired up the computer and Zoomed with friends and family to wish her a happy birthday and sing before she blew out her candles.

After cake and such a busy day, she was full of energy (and sugar), so we went for a walk in full Snow White regalia, plus a new Frozen baseball hat. I’m sure the neighborhood wasn’t expecting a Royal parade. 🙂

Today was a rude awakening, as Princess Minion realized that it was no longer her birthday and she had to do her normal daily things, like pick up after herself and not have cake for lunch. She’s so deprived.

The Obligatory Coronavirus Post

I have been following this virus since about the third week in January and it looks like it has taken until now for the US government to take it seriously. So…7 weeks. I have a lot of opinions and feeling about this, but I want to focus on what we can all do to help. Since I spent much of Little Miss Minion’s first year of life in a constant state of bleaching everything we owned, I have some relevant experience. RSV isolation and introversion have prepared me for just this situation 😉

As the parent of a former 28 weeker, I take cold and flu season extremely seriously, even though my kiddo has hopefully outgrown her preemie lungs and the problems that go with them, as well as developed a decent immune system. Last time she got sick, she had a runny nose for about 12 hours and then gave it to me, where it lasted six weeks and turned into a double ear infection, a sinus infection, bronchitis, and borderline pneumonia mixed with infection-induced asthma.

I’m sure everyone has heard the non-stop refrain of “wash your hands,” “it’s just the flu,” and “it’s only killing old people.” Here are my two cents, as a NICU mom, as a preemie mom, and as a (hopeful) future nurse:

1. WASH YOUR HANDS. For real. Viruses need us to take them to the cells they can infect. Take the common cold, for example. You could dunk your hands in a bucket full of rhinovirus and not get sick…UNLESS you brought the virus to your nose or mouth. Scrub your hands, and the detergents in the soap will disrupt the virus capsule and kill it. Hand sanitizer does the same thing to this virus–although not all viruses are killed by it. Norovirus, for example, is not killed by most sanitizer gels.
2. Take it seriously. While 80% of cases are apparently not a big deal, that means that 20% result in symptoms serious enough to warrant hospitalization. We don’t have the space in our hospitals for that kind of volume. We don’t have the staffing, or the supplies…which brings me to the next point.
3. Do your part to flatten the curve. The curve is basically the number of people who need medical attention at a given time. The lower that number is, the better shape we will all be in. Slow the spread of illness so that the numbers of severe cases don’t surge. 100 people knocking on your door over the course of a year is far better than all of those people showing up in one day.
4. Don’t be a carrier. Limit your visiting with more vulnerable people (looking at you, nursing homes, retirement homes, people fighting chronic illness, people with newborns). You could be sick with this virus (or any other virus) and not know it, bringing it in and infecting others who may not be able to fight it off. I can’t tell you how many times I had to tell, explain, and argue with people about why it was so vital that Little Miss Minion not get sick that first year she was home with us. What you think are “allergies” on Monday, so you go visit an older relative, could turn into “just a runny nose” on Tuesday and a full blown cold on Wednesday–and could prove to be pneumonia or worse for your unsuspecting relative.
5. Don’t let the anxiety rule you. Check in on the news once or twice a day and get on with your day…albeit with a little more soap and a little less face-touching than usual.

 

Wishing everyone health and lots of toilet paper…

 

Another Semester Down

The fall semester of 2019 is in the books and I came out with another A! Anatomy and Physiology I was tough, but interesting. The best part is that I think I can reuse my book for the spring (A&P II). I know I can use the other half of my coloring book and flash cards.

The end of this semester also brings me to the halfway point of my return to school. I’ve been taking classes for 2 1/2 years now and I’ve got 2 1/2 left, assuming I get into nursing school this fall. I have the grades and the classes done-I am scheduled to take the HESI in January and then I can apply to nursing school in March.

In other news, Little Miss Minion had her first false alarm shunt incident at the beginning of the month. She’d been complaining of a headache off and on for several weeks, so we talked to her neurosurgeon. He wanted us to come in, since it had been going on for so long. One MRI later, he told us that her scans looked ok and whatever it was wasn’t shunt related. The bright side of this little adventure is that LMM hasn’t complained of a headache since then. The bad news is that this added a new, rather large bill to our “tab” at the hospital. We’re still paying off her surgery from October 2017! If our NICU and hydro journey has taught me nothing else, it’s that medical bills can be paid monthly and financial aid is a lifesaver.

In happier news, it’s almost New Years Eve! That means we get to open The Jar from 2019. At the start of this year, I took an empty mason jar and put it on the kitchen counter, along with a pen and some small slips of paper. The idea was to write down memorable, funny, cool, or happy moments throughout the year and then read them all together on New Year’s Eve. I’ll have to share some once we open the jar.

I hope everyone had a great holiday and I wish you all the best in 2020!