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Saint Patrick’s Day 2021

Yearly Boiled Dinner
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We had a nice Sant Patrick’s Day meal tonight after Eva’s Krav Class. This year we boiled two corned beef cuts. We did Point cut in Guinness with the veggies in the crock pot all day. In another crock pot we had flat cut with Killian’s Red and all the veggies except for the cabbage. That was put in later. We decided that we enjoy eating the point cut for the meal but the flat is much better for making corned beef hash the next day because it stays together better than the point which is stringy and falls apart. But now we definitively know what to choose.

Pot O Gold Cookie

After dinner we had some Pot ‘O gold cookies that the Leprechaun left for us. Andy observed that when we don’t leave out traps the Leprechaun leaves us treats. He did leave us some mischief, too like green milk and green toilet water. Eva mentioned to Allison that “the Leprechaun” should stir the milk up a lot more. I like that she keeps the magic alive for Andy.

Andy's classwork

The image above was from Andy’s schoolwork that we saw today. It made us smile.

Today one of my high school friends, Marybeth, brought her son, Matthew, over to check out my YouTube game streaming setup. He’s nearly 13 with several different issues like Autism, ADHD, Anxiety and communication disorder plus nerve damage to his intestines and NASH Liver Disease. He’s a great kid with a great attitude and some very big dreams. So we had a conversation together to talk about those dreams in the hopes that somehow the right people see this video and offer to send him some cheer. He is really looking for autographs from Youtubers, Marvel movie stars and artists. He wants to be a YouTuber someday and also an artist for Marvel. I hope that he sees all his dreams come true.

Family, Food, Photo-A-Day

Saying Good Riddance to 2020

Family New Year
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In many ways 2020 was the worst year ever. However, if I look closer at the year and what it has given us It hasn’t been without good points. Allison and I are both working and because of our jobs we have been able to care for the kids as they have their hybrid learning schedule.

This year brought many challenges to our fitness. When the pandemic shut down gyms and our dojo we were able to continue to train via Zoom. Slowly we were able to go back to the mats and continue our training. This year Eva started training in Jr. Krav Maga and she has embraced it with such joy. She loves training and is having a good time with her friends. Andy is continuing to make strides in the right direction, too. While he is not as enthusiastic about training he goes and does the best he can. I have gotten very serious about working on the next level. Within this coming year I may even be eligible to test for my Black Belt. I have a very long road ahead and have to get my fitness level up to be able to accomplish this goal.

This past year has been good for Allison and I because we were able to spend mornings walking together and through that ad eating right, including Isagenix, we were able to lose a good amount of weight, each.

So, it has not been a terrible year all around. Luckily, we’ve been healthy, employed and able to spend more time together.

We spent today doing various things. I worked on several videos for my YouTube channel and that has been beginning to pick up some steam. The kids played and watched shows and baked some cupcakes.

New Years Eve Cupckaes

I put together dinner and made a little mini cookout menu. I made bacon cheeseburger nachos with mini kielbasa and pretzel nuggets.

New Years Eve Dinner<>then Allison and I watched Ellis Paul’s New Year’s Eve show on Facebook Live while Eva and Andy did their own things. Andy watched Odd Squad in our bed and I had a feeling that he’s be asleep by midnight. I checked on him at 11:45 and he was awake. 15 minutes later he was asleep and Eva tried to wake him but he was so out. I went up to move him to his futon and when I tried to move the covers he pulled them back. I bent down to pick him up and he wrapped his arms around my neck. I lifted him and the cold caught him and he woke up. He announced, “I made it!” Yes, you sure did kiddo.