Blogmas is a challenge to write a post every day of December relating to Christmas in some way, shape or form. There are other options to do a couple of weeks or so; however, I am an all in or nothing person.

Besides, it isn’t the number of posts that changed my mind. I actually found many more things I could have written about last year. And I found the discipline of once a day posting stayed with me for a few months into the new year. That, of course, has changed with the deterioration of my health, addition of a new puppy to our home and life in general. But, again, none of these were a deciding factor.

The truth of the matter is I have done it. I accepted a challenge and I met it. I felt good about it, was very happy with my posts, and gained many…