No one really wants to look back at 2020. It was a strange, difficult, frustrating year. But even then God was at work. I found myself praying more. I had to rely fully on Him for strength when I was totally exhausted and stressed, and He gave me not just the strength, but the smiles to keep going. For that I am grateful. Sometimes we need to look beyond the clouds to see the blessings God has given us. Things like accomplishing goals, new adventures, and more.

Are you ready to take a flying trip through my year and see if I got any of my goals done?

My goals for 2020:

• Finish writing Lawrence and Lenexa That didn’t happen.
• Finish writing Kelsey’s Stories Nope. Didn’t do that either.
• Finish writing my secret project √ Yes! And not only did I finish Jim Wood, but I got 3 others done as well.
• Get TCR-5 on audio √ And TCR-6 is being recorded right now.
• Hopefully get a few other stories on audio √ I got the first 12 Christmas Collection books on audio.
• Learn more about blogging, WordPress, and growing my site Yeah, well . . . Nope.
• Work on marketing Not really . . .
• Read at least one non-fiction book a month √√ Yes! I actually was able to read 2 non-fiction books each month this year!
• Work 4 elections √√√√ Yep, I sure did.
• Host Read Another Page’s new Reading Challenge √ I did.
• Do some online tutoring (for writing) Nope. That didn’t actually happen.
• Write and publish one new Christmas Collection book √ Yes, Saving Miss Christmas is published.

So, out of the dozen things on my list, I managed to do 7 of them. Not bad.

But just because I wasn’t able to do some things, didn’t mean I didn’t do others.
Here’s my other things of interest:

• Helped create The King’s Daughters’ Writing Camp and hosted 2 online writing camps.
• Published 2 short Christmas stories.
• Wrote and directed this year’s Christmas play for church.
• Read more books than my goal (You can read my Year in Books here.)
• Taught one student.
• Worked in the County Clerk’s office before the last two elections.
• Continued to post every Tuesday.
• Hosted the 5th Five Fall Favorites party.
• Welcomed my new niece in March.
• Posted 24-Books-before-Christmas

And I wrote.

This means I wrote 171,069 which is exactly 4k fewer than I wrote last year. How I managed to get an exact 4k is beyond me. It wasn’t planned.

Well, that’s 2020 in a nutshell.

I have some goals for 2021. Not sure how many I can accomplish, but . . .

• Host Read Another Page’s 4th Reading Challenge (more about that next week)
• Read 1 non-fiction book a month
• Finish writing Lawrence & Lenexa
• Work on another Woodbreak book
• Publish a new Christmas Collection book
• Host Five Fall Favorites
• Participate in several writing camps at KDWC

Well, there’s a look at my life in 2020 and my goals, or at least some of them, for 2021. Do you have any goals set for this year? Any plans to read more or less?