When we reached the end of a very challenging 2020, many of us were optimistically looking ahead to 2021, excited to see what the fresh year would bring. The hope that many of our challenges would soon be history carried us through another 12 months of the pandemic, keeping us belted in for the wild ride that has become the COVID-19 rollercoaster. We've experienced some big wins -- we have vaccines and our kids are back in school -- but we are still fighting some tough batt