2022 Annus Horribilis
Yes, I usually try to be a positive person. Usually at the end of the year I'm looking at the blessings that the year has brought and focusing on all the good that will come in the new year. Well, this year has done me in. I've had it! This has officially (at least in the book of Bfth) become the WORST year in in the life of Bfth and I while I'm trying to be hopeful for 2023, I'm also a little apprehensive. (PLEASE! After this horrible year, we NEED a really good, or dare I say it, GREAT 2023.) So I'm sending off 2022 with 22 reasons why the year SUCKED for me personally (and perhaps you too.) My mom died. That alone could make this a horrible year, but there was so much more. My cousin's mom died in January. I ADORED her mother, who before dementia took it's toll was an incredible (and fun) woman. Two of my mom's dearest friends died in the months that followed and one of my husband's dearest friends passed away suddenly at the age of 6