Goodbye 2022!

I can't believe that 2022 is here and gone! What a crazy year... so many significant and life changing events happened this year. Losing mom and planning her funeral, taking care of her estate and cleaning out and selling her home (getting all her affairs settled), finding out the news of Robin's metastatic breast cancer, full swing building of our home and all the details of overseeing that, getting our old home of 20 years ready to put on the market, growing with the changing relationship with our children and seeing Katelyn off on her mission and the joy of having a missionary serving are just a few examples. Through it all we've experienced incredible growth! We've been able to experience JOY in the hard and the good and the day to day blessings of the Plan of Salvation. We've enjoyed being grandparents to Luke and the wonderful blessing he is in our life, as well. Having Megan and Todd nearby has brought so much happiness into our lives! 2023 stands to be another very eventful year as we complete our home and make the move to a new area and ward. Katelyn will return home from her mission in early December (to a new ward) and we'll be able to spend the holidays together with her in our new home! We will be involved in landscaping and beautifying our new property and other projects that go along with that. We have so much to be grateful for and so much to look forward to in 2023!

Below is the puzzle that Katelyn sent us for Christmas. It's "Rainbow Row" in Charleston, SC. Someday I would love to visit and see it in person! We started this last night, and I went to bed. Dad and Brooke stayed up and finished it. When I walked into the kitchen this morning, this is what I saw! We watched the Ohio State v. Georgia game tonight and played Shanghai Rummy to ring in the new year. Unfortunately our Bucks didn't do so well. They played their hearts out but lost it in the very last part of the last quarter-- 41-42! It was a great game, though. It was a quiet New Year's Eve at the Freeman home!