For the first time in over a couple years (if memory serves), I skipped (or missed) posting on Wednesday last week. The horror!

As I alluded to in the previous post on 12/15, I was looking forward to disconnecting for a week and slowing things down during this time of year. The holidays can be so frenetic and stressful — before you factor in all the pandemic stress — so it was awesome to finally decompress for a week.

We and my family (siblings and their families, plus my parents) all had a quite lovely vacation in Cancun for a week, and by the time I got home on 12/22, after a 6+ hour flight and all of that, posting an update here wasn’t in the cards.

The world kept turning though, so suffice it to say that we’re all good.

Part of me wants to continue to aim for a weekly post each Wednesday because I value routines and schedules and because it makes me prioritize my own work for a change. I also know that if I don’t give myself this soft deadline each week, I’ll have the tendency to not write for weeks/months on end because “I’m too busy” or claim that I have little to say or share, neither of which is very true.

And yet part of me also wants to drop the schedule for the aforementioned reasons — time, interest, bandwidth — so we’ll see.

Anyway, with just a couple days left in winter break before we dive headfirst into the second half of the school-year, I will enthusiastically say “see ya in a week” as I put my computer away, move my phone away from my arms’ reach, and relax in these final few carefree days of break.

I hope you and yours had an excellent holiday and that you’re getting some much-needed r&r, however that looks for you, these days.