The Nelson Narrative

I haven't linked up with  Shay and Sheaffer for What's Up Wednesday in forever (haven't posted at all in forever until yesterday) so here goes: What We're Eating This Week Lots of junk (Christmas cookies, 4-layer delight, chocolate).  Actually, that was more last week but still finishing things off this week.  It's mostly all gone so hopefully back on track next week, or at least on Monday the 4th. What I'm Reminiscing About Travel and our annual NYE party at our friends' that won't be taking place this year.  We have been going there for NYE every year since 2012 but because of COVID we won't be going this year.  It's always a super fun, low-key gathering with the kids playing upstairs and the grown-ups hanging out downstairs drinking, playing games, watching funny YouTube videos or just visiting, then we all watch the ball drop at Midnight (on tape delay since we're on the West Coast) and the kids shoot silly string and do all kinds of no...

  I have been bad about blogging this year.  I haven't posted since school started, making this my longest drought yet in 12 years.   We had a really fun trip planned in late June to Branson, MO, and another trip to Hawaii in August, but of course we had to cancel both.  Instead, we made several trips to our condo at Crescent Bar.  As I've mentioned a few times before, we were gifted one of the in-laws' condos in late 2019, and it needed lots of updating to make it rental ready, so we made several trips over there between February and September to replace furniture and bedding, purge excess household items, etc.  We still have a ways to go but we're getting there.  I've been meaning to do a before and after post for some time, so hopefully I will get to it soon. Having cancelled our trips to Branson and Hawaii, we had timeshare points that we were going to lose (you'd think with COVID and all they would grant an exception but whatever), so we deci...