I tend to not set new year's resolutions, but I did have a casual goal of having a monthly review as a new thing to do this year. How comical is it that I am finally doing a January review after 8 days past the month? Well, here I am attempting to meet that goal. Let's see if I remember everything January in a pandemic is so exciting.
Here is a quick summary of January:
Our COVID saga
Zoe's return to daycare
A birthday 🎂 party (COVID style)!
Z gets new glasses
My new hairdo
January...you just had to make sure that we start the new year with a bang. A lot of you already know that Zoe and I got COVID at the beginning of a new year, which really emotionally wrecked me as a mom. I did take everyone's advice and quickly focused on us getting better. I'm happy to report that we are all good now except for a few lingering things left. Zoe and I have been sniffly with a cold or allergy (who knows) that we just keep passing it back and forth to each other for a while now. I am slowly regaining my sense of smell. I can certainly smell (💩), but it's only about 50% back. I still can't smell things far away and would have stick my nose super close to really smell anything. Thank goodness I can taste, though. It was so good to reunite with Z and be able to share the space together after 10 days of miserable quaranintine. It's simply not fun to try keeping a toddler confined to her bedroom and the common space all while Z reliving his bachelor days in our bedroom. Gosh, we miss living in a house with a yard.
January was also the month when Zoe became a HUGE fan of Cocomelon. You guys, I bit the dust. I don't know what is it about Cocomelon, but that was a clutch when I didn't have the energy (from COVID) to entertain her for the 5th hour. I am sick and tired of its songs, but I'll take the virtual babysitting opportunity I can get when I have no other choice.
Zoe headed back to daycare in mid-December, and despite having had to take many and frequent absences, she has been thriving. After getting over the fear of a new place and people, she has been loving seeing her friends and teachers. There has been such obvious development in her through regular socialization and daily structure she desperately needed. These days, she waves 👋 at dropoff and runs as fast as she can toward me at pickup, which just melts this mama's heart. Daycare has been a plus for me, as well, because it has given me a more consistent quiet time to focus on my job. I seriously cannot thank all the child caretakers enough in this country.
We spent an afternoon celebrating a friend's daughter's 8th birthday. This was another opportunity for me to observe how much she had grown and learned since returning to daycare. The way she was interacting with our friend's kids made me feel assured of my decision with daycare, which was truly a difficult decision for many months. Typically, she would have been clinging onto me with her dear life and crying during the entire stay.
Lastly, I braved through a hair salon to get a haircut and coloring done! I hadn't gotten a haircut since June last year, and I didn't have the courage to cut my own hair. It wasn't a comfortable decision especially because the hair salon was busier than I anticipated, but in the end, I was glad to get a little makeover. It's amazing how a haircut can elevate your mood. I did come out with side-swept bangs, which I might quickly regret because I generally don't like the upkeep.
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