December is one of my favorite months. I love Christmas lights, peppermint, cooler weather, Christmas music, winter break from work, and the general festive feeling of things this time of year. I hope December was good to you.

31 Things I am grateful for this month:

1. Peppermint everything

2. Friend date

3. Christopher making it home safely from his work trip

4. Making delicious rosemary and parmesan dinner rolls

5. Decorating our house for Christmas

6. Coffee in a Christmas mug

7. Wrapping Christmas gifts for my family and friends

8. Facetime with the nieces

9. Finishing a Christmas craft

10. Some of the bulbs I planted with zero expectations are sprouting

11. Homemade eggnog out of a Gluhwein mug from our Germany trip in 2018

12. Snuggles with the nieces

13. Peanut butter blossoms

14. Another year of Miranda

15. Ladies date night to build gingerbread houses

16. Steaming fireplaces

17. Cute letterboard shapes

18. Celebrating another UCF alumni in the family

19. Feeding and petting a sloth

20. Seeing extended family

21. Kebab and Turkish tea

22. Testing negative for covid after being exposed

23. UCF football beating UF

24. Frosted sugar Christmas cookies

25. Christmas

26. Making homemade ice cream

27. Time off to rest after Christmas

28. Lucy snuggles

29. TikTok

30. Visiting the new Winter Park Library

31. A fun night with Arie and Jessie and their neighbors and alll the pets

Bye 2021, you’ve been a real pain in the ass.

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