This year I’m going to try to write a weeklog to record my gratitude and remember the small things.

Week 1 was mostly encompassed in my New Years post. But I did miss that we went to the San Antonio Zoo to see the new Gorilla Exhibit (and our old pals the anteaters). The Gorillas were very cool. One wandered around like a human on two legs and that was pretty wacky. We had dinner at La Fonda on Main. It was pretty good elevated Mexican. I had some skewers over rice. It had a lot of vegetables which was great, but the beef had zero seasoning which was a bit baffling. All in all a great dinner, though.

On Saturday we watched the Stranger Things finale. I think it was more emotional for me than for the kids. The ending was so wrapped up with COVID and the fact we’re almost empty nesters and everything is changing in our family very quickly.

On Sunday we went to the Wildflower Center for a walk. Checked out Fortlandia. Getting exercise on one leg while not overdoing it has proven a real struggle.

This week was back to the grind, although I still enjoy work and it’s really not that bad. I think just being tired from my leg makes everything drag.

We planned a 50th birthday party for my old friend Travis. We had custom merit badges and a fun cake and I realized that I was the one having control issues and getting wigged out about the planning. But it all came off without a hitch. We had this old badge maker we’d gotten at Austin Creative Reuse and I ordered some blanks we hoped would work off of Amazon.

Our only worry is we have kicked off this phase of our life with too good of a party and it’s going to be hard to keep this pace.

We’re taking Stella back to the dorms tonight, so it’ll just be the three of us again. I think I’m doing better about saying goodbye now. Last year was really rough.

This week we’re going to start back with a bi-weeky writing night on Tuesday. Fingers crossed it goes well.