2022 was a huge year for our family. We moved from Japan to Virginia. Joey married Lauren Morris. John married Allison Hoffart. Samantha left on a mission, and we almost got Adam potty trained....we'll have to finish that in 2023.
We also had lice for like 5 months...seriously it was the worst! Hopefully no one I know actually reads this. Two days before we left Japan (in the middle of cleaning our house and moving in to a hotel and selling cars etc. Kate tells me that her head is super itchy. We check her and she has lice. We of course treat it and do all of the other stuff we need to get ready to move and have a wedding in the next week or so. Thought we were done with it....went to Virginia to get in our new house and drop off luggage, go to the wedding, travel through the sequioias make it back to virginia. Back in Virginia we realize that Kate still has lice....and maybe a few others....treat it. Recieve our household goods which are full of mold. Work with the movers to get rid of the items that are damaged. Take pictures and record everything....wash everything that we keep ....washer and dryer are running constantly. Turn around and drive out to Utah a few days late for the reception and a family reunion and Education week. During our reunion Samantha tells me that her head is itching and she thougth she found a bug in it. ...yep more lice. We discretely wash all the girl's hair with lice shampoo.... buy new brushes etc. Even wash the pillow cases and sheets in the airbnb. Finish the reunion, go to education week drive back to Virginia. a few weeks later...yep lice again. We treat again (this time Adam and I have it too and Michelle and Saamantha and Kate) and wash all the sheets and vaccuum the couches...then go to Maia's house in September so Justin can speak to her stake...yep..the next week we find lice again. Treat again..... I go to my mom's house and everyone else joins us for John's wedding. We have a great time... a week or two after we get home..... lice again...everyone but Nathan and Justin....I make Nathan treat himself too....can't control Justin. Clear for a few weeks....Just before Samantha leaves to go to England...yep lice again... We treat everyone, clean everything. I go to the doctor and get a perscription for ivermectin, but my insurance doesn't cover it becuase it's over the counter and it's expensive. Finally find some on the shelf for a bit less. Samantha comes home from England and sure enough lice again. Use ivermectin on everyone.....finally become super vigilant about combing out everyone's hair every night for 2 weeks....so much time.....and finally done with lice just on time for Samantha to fly out to Mexico. Whew! I've never had something so pervasive....that was a lot of work....and now we've been lice free for about 6 weeks.....crossing my fingers....
But now that we're through that, I feel like we can accomplish anything lol, so here are my 2023 goals:
1. Exercise consistently (5 days a week)
2. eat healthy consistently
3. Read scriptures consistently
4. Get Adam potty trained
5. Get Nathan ready for adult life...finish eagle
6. Help Michelle get her license
7. start volunteering again
8. Write down the books I read
9. Spend one on one time with each of the kids still at home, call married kids once a week to check up on them.
10. Stay close to my parents and brothers and sisters.
11. take time each week to develop a hobby. sew again, paint with Michelle, Finish furniture projects.
12. Go to the temple once a month.
13 Write in my blog at least once a month. It really helps me to be grateful and look at my life more positively.
I'll have to take time later to flesh out more of what I want to specifically do for some of these goals...mainly the health ones. Personally I'd like to join a gym, but not sure if I want to pay for it.
