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***CLOSED*** JANUARY 14 : Drop Caps (big letter for first paragraph)

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MOC 2026 - Day 14 - Drop Caps (Big First Letter)

Hope for the New Year. I think we all end the old year thinking of all the good that will come in the new one. We have hope that things at home and away will be better than they were before. Sometimes, it seems like hope is never-ending and we just can throw it around like confetti and joy and all the other little things in take for granted in the day to day of life. December 2025 sucked. I was sick for most of it with almost bronchitis. I'm still randomly pulling back muscles when I sneeze. (I guess that's progress because it was whenever I coughed and sneezed.) Todd followed shortly after me with pneumonia just because he always has to go one further than I do. (Luckily, Mom gets some sort of shot that boasts her immunity and she never got sick and was able to handle everything with Benjamin.) Then Benjamin got his first stomach bug at the ripe old age of 10. He wasn't happy. Don't blame him. This is a long way of saying that I was really hopeful for the New Year to be better and (while not puppies and lollipops) I was hopeful that January had to be better. Sigh. Well, we're mostly better so that's good. Todd's still hacking up his lungs in random spurts and I have my previously mentioned back pain but better and we haven't been to Urgent Care or the ER all month so YAY. But then I watch the news and read various news sources and I know that things are getting worse out there (random hand wave out the window). I almost wish I was still sick and unaware of what was going on because that seems easier some days than wondering and worrying what new ridiculous thing will happen to surpass the ridiculousness from yesterday. Sigh. Part of me just wants to delete everything and call it a day. Back to hope I guess. I have hope, but it's not as easily strewn about these days. Maybe I'm just hoarding it for myself. I don't know. I just know that I will need more tomorrow and for the foreseeable future.
 
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