2025 Year In Review

Totally stealing this from Bridget Jones; here goes my 2025 year in review, and a few hopes (not resolutions) for 2026.

2025 Year In Review:

- Sports seasons survived:  3

- Church Youth conferences, other trips & mission trips led/organized:  4

- Son's Rock Concerts attended:  2

- Father-Daughter dances organized: 1

- Races Run:  5

- Races 'placed':  1 (3rd for age group!)

- Bones broken:  0  (this is HUGE!)

- Spring Break trips organized/taken:  1

- Poker Nights:  2-3 (who's counting)

- Kid Musicals seen live:  1 (it was Dogman, it was not worth it)

- 'Cons' attended:  1 (GalaxyCon - never again, it has grown from off beat campy to out of control in RVA)

- Kid Showcases attended:  2-3 (again, who's counting)

- Sorority events attended:  1 (this is up from a running 0 for the last 20 years!)

- Friend brunches:  6

- White House Tours:  1

- Moving a parent from a Nursing Home to Assisted Living:  1

- Commutes to NoVA for work:  countless

- Kid braces removed:  1 (Elsa)

- Kid teeth broken:  2 (Alton)

- Best Friend visits:  2

- Rock bands joined:  1

- Public concerts with  rock band:  3

- Sleepovers survived:  5

- Jobs switched:  1

- Kid ADHD heavy treatment entered:  1

- Pumpkin patch trips:  1

- Childhood houses totally cleaned out:  1

- Childhood houses sold:  1

- Childhood house lawn mowing over the summer:  Countless

- Parental finances put in order:  1

- Kid school switches:  1

- Bethlehem walks survived:  1

- Flu survived:  1

- Size of team at work:  Doubled

2026 Hopes (spoiler alert - it's all about making sense of the aftermath of my mother's death, my father's new stabilized state, and tending to all of the things I have neglected since 2023)

- Make sense of our house -- organize it

- Clean out  my Dad's storage unit

- Structure and organize team at work; clear trade offs for new work

- Successfully move my son to a different school

- Spend less money but still make memories with the fam

- Record with the band at a studio, more public appearances that aren't part of another band

- Write more blogs/ start the book I have in mind

- Actually figure out my stupid genealogy

- Do all the health things - doctor's visits, screenings, etc.

- Lose weight

- Lose the baggage - family, limiting beliefs, parental expectations, work-life balance

- BALANCE

- Time to process, think, reflect, and rest