Courtney's Corner

Today I'm going to talk about an experience that happened a while back - Saturday, May 23, 2020 to be exact.  My ex-fiance had decided he wanted to have some friends over for a party during the early stages of the 2020 pandemic (we were not on the same page about the pandemic but that's a whole other story in itself!). Being, that everything with the pandemic was still relatively new I had genuine concerns about having people in our home and the safety and wellbeing of our son. I didn't want people from outside our home, coming into our home and potentially putting my family at risk of COVID-19 so I had to set some ground rules - if he was going to have the party all guests had to stay outside or in the garage. He agreed to follow this and we continued with the party.  Sidenote; we were barely talking at this point because this was after I said I wanted a break, then he said he didn't want to lose me and he wanted to work on things, then my grandmother passed, then he ...

Happy New Year!  We did it! We made it to 2021! Cheers to 2021 because wow, did 2020 suck or what?! I am not naturally an optimistic person or a glass-half-full kind of gal; so I'm not going to sugarcoat it.  New goal for 2020 - Be More Optimistic! I truly do have a good feeling about 2021, because honestly, I'm just not sure how much worse it can get at this point. I know, I know, things can always get worse; I'm just saying it's been a really tough year and I could really use some joy and happiness, how about you? This past year, I have discovered that writing my feelings and thoughts down helps me process things. It's almost like until I write it down it will forever fill my head taking up space and time. So I've decided to give "blogging" a try AGAIN...not necessarily blogging per se, but more like I'm just going to start writing as a form of therapy, for myself. It's been a while since I've made a blog post that I almost forgot I had t...