A Very Pensive Christmas Eve
It's a quiet Christmas in the Velasquez home. The parties we attended to were less than 10, we are far from our extended family so there were no scheduled visits and reunions. For a busy person like me it is a big relief. Being able to spend time blogging and leave the men to the cooking is already a treat for me. 2 days of respite is enough to fuel me for the homestretch this year. I've been resisting the temptation to work. Instead, I'd like to reflect on the past year and in order to do that I have to go as far back as 2017. 2017 was a turbulent year for us. My husband and I went through so many challenges in the family, careers, and health. The theme for that year was BROKE... no that's not a grammatical error. G resigned from his job that year. We had everything planned out. What we haven't foreseen were the gravity of the issues that we were going to face. Due to many bad decisions our savings dwindled, I accepted a fulltime job that I wasn'