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31 Things I am Grateful for December 2021

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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