It is now 2022, and I wonder what this year has in store for us.

The “between week,” the five days between Christmas and New Year’s Day, finds me recuperating, resting\ and reflecting on the past year. I am also preparing for the new year by deleting 5,000 plus emails from one of my Gmail accounts. Google will be pleased. Many New Year’s resolutions will be started and dropped in the first month. The promises of “I will exercise more this year” will either live or wither away from lack of motivation factors.

How was your holiday cooking?

My grandmothers would be proud, or chuckling from heaven, at the attempt by my sisters and me to duplicate their traditional recipes. My experience with cooking with both grandmas included them measuring ingredients with their bare handsand using terms like dash, pinch and tad. I consulted Google and discovered on ochef.com their versions of these terms. A “tad” is 1/8 of a teaspoon, a “dash” is less than 1/8 of a teaspoon, and a “pinch” is 1/16 of a teaspoon.

I wonder if grandmas across the nation approved these precise measurements. I think they just used the time-tested “taste bud method” for that final grandma approval.

Congratulations to Lexington-Richland School District 5 science teacher Karen Edwards, who has been elected the Health Science Educators Association president-elect. In other district 5 news, Chapin’s Anna Ruff has been chosen as the state’s 2021 Cheerleader of the Year.

This time of year is tough when tragedy strikes at home. A fire occurred in Chapin, and a local man lost his taxidermy tools. If you know someone who has old taxidermy tools, please contact me at liesha.lexingtonchron@gmail.com, and I will get them to him.

There was a fire at an apartment complex in Irmo, and 14 families need many items. If you want to help them out, a donation to the District 5 Foundation at district5foundation.org is a way to help.

What a blessing when the community comes together to help those who need a bit extra during the holidays.