He's so cute and has a personality to match. We love you E!

I really like doing a series of focused crafts with my children and fortunately they just really like doing crafts. All of these were geared towards Maeve and the big girls joined in if they wanted. I drew snowflakes for Maeve with a white crayon and she used water color to paint over them. We made snowflakes from marshmallows (and ate quite a few!). We glued sequins onto popsicles sticks. And we made tissue paper collage snowflakes with a friend. It can be challenging to meet Maeve's needs right now with covid and less time with peers. Crafts have been one solution. I also ordered a subscription to a craft box for her and the biggest bonus with that is that Holly and Greta are both jazzed about doing those crafts with her! We're trying over here. Some days it's a hot mess, but I think we're going to come out on top!

The ponds are frozen! My girls were so excited and have been out ice skating a couple of times. It's just so much fun to be able to walk a couple blocks to a pond and skate. I love where we live!

Greta showed Maeve how to write her name once (maybe more?) and now Maeve is writing letters all on her own. I love this milestone! Here Maeve is making a "do not enter" sign for her door. I mean, what else could "mopeep" translate to?

2020 may have been one of my best reading years. I read so many books that I thoroughly enjoyed. As the BLM movement picked up, I decided to adjust what I read and really focus in on reading outside of my norm, outside of my culture, outside of my skin color. I found it to be an especially profound experience and what I read helped to keep racial equity in the forefront of my mind.

• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

• Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
• Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
• Between Sisters by Kristin Hannah
• The Huntress by Kate Quinn
• Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett*
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates*
• Night Road by Kristin Hannah
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*
• This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi*
• The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
• How to be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins*
• The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
• The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Daré*
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett*
• A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (didn't finish, I want to try to understand this one better)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• The Last Letter From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
• The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd*
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich*
• Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones*
• The Other Americans by Laila Lalami*
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez*
• Educated by Tara Westover
• The Leavers by Lisa Ko
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

That's almost 50 books in one year!! I've marked my top choices just in case anyone reading this post would like to know what I'd choose first.