The "I have two kids now (and one of them is a baby), also a full time job, and also it's year 47 of a pandemic" version.

I almost wasn't going to do this blog again, but then me and my sisters brainstormed a bunch of topics and now I am. Probably a little less than other years. See: the title. The question I ask myself each year when I try to decide if I'm going to do this blog again is: can you think of a bunch of things to talk about? I've yet to not have things to talk about. You already knew that.

I really like doing this blog. Here are some reasons:

• It's only 6 weeks of writing things.
• Who else has a Lenten blog, honestly?
• It's a good creative outlet and practice in vulnerability.
• I can use my preferred writing styles: fragment sentences and bullet point lists.
• It's better than scrolling the internet.
• I feel like I can bring a little randomness and (something similar to) humor to sprinkle in with constant barrage of bad news and bad news and bad news. 
• It makes me happy that my grandma reads it just about everyday. Hi grandma!! 

Here are some topics we came up with:

• foods I can't eat anymore
• fantasy coffee
• business idea that I want someone to steal
• gifts I always want
• You can't always get what you want (*see what my brain did there?)
• boundaries
• meal planning
• snow shoeing in CA
• Instagram Kelli
• I'm not going to wave enthusiastically, that will show them.
• You need an exclamation or two: a lesson in positive texting
• creativity in covidland
• It's not dead
• What if it all works out?
• ARE there any other Lent blogs? If so, a ranked order of all the Lent blogs
• Eggstravaganza
• Dinosaur names I can't pronounce 
• Encanto 2: We're gonna talk about Bruno
• I can't wait until...
• Hometown Buffet and Sizzler: Fancy dining in 1995
• TGIF + Taco Bell Picnic Parties
• Things I would have done differently in the last 2 years.
• "You just walk through a long tunnel, sit down, watch 2 movies, and then you're in California"/ Aaron explaining how to do things.
• Why finish a book when you can stop part way in a fury of excitement and tell everyone else to read it and then lose interest and never finish it yourself?
• Perfect working environment
• bad guys
• how you know you picked the right spouse.