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My view this morning, Dec 31, 2025. It’s the very last day of 2025… and what a year it has been for our family. It feels like just yesterday we were ringing in the first day of 2025 thinking, “We better get our butts in gear,  we have five months to sell our house and buy a boat.” There were days I truly didn’t believe it would all come together. But somehow, along the way, everything did. We survived a last-minute basement flood just to get our house listed on time, and then

Now, for those who don’t live on a boat, let me explain our laundry situation. We do not have a dryer. Our dryer is  the sun . Full stop. That’s the whole system. We wash in a bucket with a plunger—yes, a plunger—and then we depend entirely on that big flaming ball in the sky to finish the job. When the sun is gone, our dryer is gone. And right now? Our dryer has clearly packed its bags, turned off its phone, and taken an unapproved personal day. Laundry on a boat is already

My heart is full today. We had a group of kids swim out to the boat today while we were anchored at Grand Mal, Grenada. The same kids were here last time we were here . At that time, we didn't let them up, but we gave them our leftover Halloween candy, and they were ecstatic. Our friends on Excelsior had let them on, and they had a blast jumping off the front of the boat. Today, we let them come up, and honestly, it was what my heart and soul needed. It was maybe an hour of