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As the year draw to a close, do you reflect on the year past? What are the best and worst times of your 2025?
Best and Worst of 2025
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My year wasn't too bad at all, overall it has been a great year but here's my highlights.
BEST
BEST
- making new friends
- going on an amazing trip to Churchill and will travel again with the same tour group
- got a gym membership
- starting a swimming exercise program with friends
- my hubby got treatment for a possible long time lung infection and is healthier than in a few yrs
- my dogs continue to be healthy, my old guy has no major age related issues and my aussie's knee has not worsened
- my jewelry biz did well this year and had fun with my daughter at the craft markets
- gained 8 lbs this winter so need to get back on track food-wise
- still have not gotten a good photo of a snowy owl (but there is still time for a few months)
- a few friends have been very ill and hope they get through it
- hubby was admitted for 2 wks, very sick from COPD/bronchiectasis with infection
- my back pain has worsened a bit this yr but hope that exercise and stretching will help it from progressing
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I just did a year-end review page, but I focused on the best memories and things I was grateful for, because that helps me keep perspective. If I think too much about the worst thing that's ever happened in my life that happened this year, I will lose my ish, and I'm really trying to keep it together, stay in my lane, and accept it's not all about me. You can't make people make good choices, especially your grown children. And that's all I'll say about that (thank you Forest Gump).
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Best -
- Vacation and summer adventures, like our trip to see the Savannah Bananas and our trip to Hilton Head Island
- Spending time with my grandbabies
- Chance graduating college
- losing my mom
- losing my dog
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Best -
- Family vacation to San Diego in May filled with firsts for my kids & my personal favorite - Sea World!
- Spending Christmas with all my siblings for the first time in years
- DH’s failing health in the summer due to a bad supplement (thankfully he stopped taking it and has fully recovered)
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Those are huge losses Jan. Sending you big hugs.
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So hard, and yet...look at those grandbabies! You are blessed.
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Glad your DH figured that out! Yikes!
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Best:
My son graduating USC with his BS and Masters (AND getting a great job in his chosen field of launching people back to the moon).
Amazing vacations to South Korea and Hawaii
Hubby getting surgery to resolve chronic sinus infections
Worst:
My mom having a stroke
Losing our sweet little dog, Tori
My son graduating USC with his BS and Masters (AND getting a great job in his chosen field of launching people back to the moon).
Amazing vacations to South Korea and Hawaii
Hubby getting surgery to resolve chronic sinus infections
Worst:
My mom having a stroke
Losing our sweet little dog, Tori
littlekiwi
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Best:
Worst:
- Better health relatively speaking as I still have chronic health conditions that bother me most days
- Renewed/improved family connections
- Although there have been less job opportunities in general, getting an interview this year has been a win. I thought I'd had more than one but it was only one which is still better than none!
- Being able to be creative as a Polly & have the connections here at TLP
Worst:
- Losing my grandmother in January (an unexpected yet expected loss)
- Not able to be creative for three and a half months
- Losing friendships I thought were stronger than they are.....no fallout, just total silence after 20+ years
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The biggest highlights are a toss between my eldest's graduation, and my youngest getting 2 outstanding awards.
The worst was loosing my dad.
The worst was loosing my dad.
KarenC
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Worst:
Having to have heart surgery to repair my heart valve
Loosing my mom and then not being able to go to her service because I wasn't up to traveling
Best:
Feeling much better!
Having a sweet new grandbaby
Getting a little travel trailer and making several trips with it
So thankful for my family
Having to have heart surgery to repair my heart valve
Loosing my mom and then not being able to go to her service because I wasn't up to traveling
Best:
Feeling much better!
Having a sweet new grandbaby
Getting a little travel trailer and making several trips with it
So thankful for my family
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Best obviously my daughter's wedding. I wish we could do it again!
Worst
Flooring all busted downstairs, insurance declined (fighting decision) so eating, living, working, scrapping, sleeping all being done in my bedroom.
Caught some lurgy - both me and youngest daughter are both ill (compounded by being stuck in our rooms see above).
One of my kitties died traumatically early in the year. Miss him so much
I'm glad my worst's weren't as bad as previous years though, small mercies and all that.
Worst
Flooring all busted downstairs, insurance declined (fighting decision) so eating, living, working, scrapping, sleeping all being done in my bedroom.
Caught some lurgy - both me and youngest daughter are both ill (compounded by being stuck in our rooms see above).
One of my kitties died traumatically early in the year. Miss him so much
I'm glad my worst's weren't as bad as previous years though, small mercies and all that.
HavaDrPepper
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Best:
Getting the news in January that the TAVR heart valve is working great and I no longer have to drive to Columbus to see the specialist. My regular cardiologist is now the monitoring doctor. Both visits with him were good this year.
Going on 3 motorcoach trips to places I've never been.
June: South Dakota to the Black Hills where I got to see an online friend in person for the first time in 15 years! She lives in that area and surprised me by showing up at our stop at Mt. Rushmore (I had sent her our itinerary so she knew where we would be). Met some good people on the bus.
August/September: A 13 day trip through Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island with my college friend. We had the best time and met some good people. An unplanned stop on the way home was the highlight of the trip... The Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, PA.
September/October: A trip to Vermont to hopefully see fall colors. Colors were there but not as vibrant as they could have been. This trip had people from both of my other trips on it as well. The last day was my 70th birthday and one gal (also traveling alone) bought my lunch for my birthday. Something she didn't have to do but it was very appreciated.
Worst:
3 weeks before the South Dakota trip, I hurt my foot. Thought it was a sprain but went to get an x-ray a week later. Turns out it was a dorsal talar avulsion fracture which is treated just like a sprain so I could still go on the trip. A 2nd x-ray after 8 weeks showed the fracture is still there. I have no problem walking but I do wear an ankle/foot support when I'm walking a lot (especially on the bus trips).
The last 5 days. I've been sick with the flu since Saturday. Feeling better today but still being careful about what I eat and drink. I've slept a lot and hope I can stay awake for the OSU/Miami game tonight. Go Bucks!
Getting the news in January that the TAVR heart valve is working great and I no longer have to drive to Columbus to see the specialist. My regular cardiologist is now the monitoring doctor. Both visits with him were good this year.
Going on 3 motorcoach trips to places I've never been.
June: South Dakota to the Black Hills where I got to see an online friend in person for the first time in 15 years! She lives in that area and surprised me by showing up at our stop at Mt. Rushmore (I had sent her our itinerary so she knew where we would be). Met some good people on the bus.
August/September: A 13 day trip through Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island with my college friend. We had the best time and met some good people. An unplanned stop on the way home was the highlight of the trip... The Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, PA.
September/October: A trip to Vermont to hopefully see fall colors. Colors were there but not as vibrant as they could have been. This trip had people from both of my other trips on it as well. The last day was my 70th birthday and one gal (also traveling alone) bought my lunch for my birthday. Something she didn't have to do but it was very appreciated.
Worst:
3 weeks before the South Dakota trip, I hurt my foot. Thought it was a sprain but went to get an x-ray a week later. Turns out it was a dorsal talar avulsion fracture which is treated just like a sprain so I could still go on the trip. A 2nd x-ray after 8 weeks showed the fracture is still there. I have no problem walking but I do wear an ankle/foot support when I'm walking a lot (especially on the bus trips).
The last 5 days. I've been sick with the flu since Saturday. Feeling better today but still being careful about what I eat and drink. I've slept a lot and hope I can stay awake for the OSU/Miami game tonight. Go Bucks!
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Worst: was our brother-in-law passing away from brain cancer in June.
Close behind that was our daughter emigrating to Ireland.
Best: Ironically seeing DD settle, find and job and create a community around her in her new home town.
Becoming a granny! Love having a new baby to love from afar. Wish we lived closer.
Close behind that was our daughter emigrating to Ireland.
Best: Ironically seeing DD settle, find and job and create a community around her in her new home town.
Becoming a granny! Love having a new baby to love from afar. Wish we lived closer.
janedee
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Best - trips to Mexico and Ontario to see our daughter and family. Spending time with the grandkids here in town. Two trips over to Vancouver Island to celebrate our friend’s 70th and his son’s wedding later in the year. Spending a spa weekend with my daughter for her 40th. Starting a reconciliation with my brother.
Worst - dealing with a few health issues but, on the whole, it was a pretty good year for us personally.
Worst - dealing with a few health issues but, on the whole, it was a pretty good year for us personally.
dotcomkari
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Wrote this to my husband but it basically wraps up 2025
My love,
As this year comes to a close, I keep thinking about everything it held for us — the beautiful, the painful, and all the moments that proved how strong we are.
The best thing of all was marrying you on January 27th, 2025. That day changed everything. No matter how hard the year became afterward, I always come back to that truth: you are my husband, and I am your wife. Nothing can take that away from us.
I think about our trip to Saidia Beach and how peaceful it felt just being together — the sound of the water, the laughter, the way time slowed down when it was just us. I treasure the quality time we spent with you and your family, feeling the warmth of where you come from and the love that surrounds you. Those moments filled my heart in ways words don’t fully capture.
And I’m proud of us for getting this far in our visa journey. Even when it feels endless, we’ve kept pushing, kept believing, kept choosing each other through every obstacle.
But this year also tested us deeply.
The waiting — the stupid visa delays — have been exhausting and unfair. The constant phone connection problems made even hearing your voice feel like a battle some days. The difficult jobs in Morocco, the stress, the frustration — I saw how hard you worked, how much you carried for us.
Being apart has been the hardest part of all. Loving you from a distance hurts in ways I never imagined, and yet it has shown me just how real and unbreakable our bond is.
And then there is the loss of our angel, Ayah. That pain lives quietly in my heart every day. She will always be part of us, part of our story, watching over us with love.
Even with all the hardship, this year proved something powerful: we endure, we love fiercely, and we never give up on each other. Every tear, every wait, every lonely night has only strengthened what we share.
I believe with everything in me that the year ahead will bring us closer, finally together, building the life we’ve been dreaming of. Until then, hold onto my love the way I hold onto yours — tightly, endlessly, and with hope.
Always yours,
Kari
My love,
As this year comes to a close, I keep thinking about everything it held for us — the beautiful, the painful, and all the moments that proved how strong we are.
The best thing of all was marrying you on January 27th, 2025. That day changed everything. No matter how hard the year became afterward, I always come back to that truth: you are my husband, and I am your wife. Nothing can take that away from us.
I think about our trip to Saidia Beach and how peaceful it felt just being together — the sound of the water, the laughter, the way time slowed down when it was just us. I treasure the quality time we spent with you and your family, feeling the warmth of where you come from and the love that surrounds you. Those moments filled my heart in ways words don’t fully capture.
And I’m proud of us for getting this far in our visa journey. Even when it feels endless, we’ve kept pushing, kept believing, kept choosing each other through every obstacle.
But this year also tested us deeply.
The waiting — the stupid visa delays — have been exhausting and unfair. The constant phone connection problems made even hearing your voice feel like a battle some days. The difficult jobs in Morocco, the stress, the frustration — I saw how hard you worked, how much you carried for us.
Being apart has been the hardest part of all. Loving you from a distance hurts in ways I never imagined, and yet it has shown me just how real and unbreakable our bond is.
And then there is the loss of our angel, Ayah. That pain lives quietly in my heart every day. She will always be part of us, part of our story, watching over us with love.
Even with all the hardship, this year proved something powerful: we endure, we love fiercely, and we never give up on each other. Every tear, every wait, every lonely night has only strengthened what we share.
I believe with everything in me that the year ahead will bring us closer, finally together, building the life we’ve been dreaming of. Until then, hold onto my love the way I hold onto yours — tightly, endlessly, and with hope.
Always yours,
Kari