Happy New Year!

What better way to start off the new year than by jumping back onto the blog?

What a year it has been. January of 2020 seems like it happened ages ago. It started off in the most exciting of ways: finding out we were expecting! The first few months seemed to be off to a good start, but by March things had certainly taken quite the turn and little did we know that our entire year would look so different from any other that we had experienced before.

Aside from navigating pregnancy during a global pandemic, it was a year full of loss. I lost my job, and our family lost two grandfathers. The hardest part was not being able to celebrate their lives with family and friends, though we settled with Zoom visits to see each others faces and share memories.

Although the year had such low lows, I have tried so hard not to dwell on the negativity and sadness, but rather look at the blessing of the many wonderful years we got to spend together. Our family was so lucky to have such great role models and have left us with nothing but wonderful memories from our childhood and all of the great times that we spent together.

The birth of our sweet little Vivian Jean was the brightest light of 2020 and has filled our lives with so much joy. She has given a new purpose to my life which now completely revolves around her in the best of ways.

This New Year feels slightly different than the rest in a sense that I truly have no idea what is in store for this year. I enter with a bit of caution, and hopeful that the world will get back to a place of normalcy (whatever that may mean moving forward). I enter with hopes that I will find a new job that I enjoy when the time is right for our family. Mostly, I enter with pure excitement to watch our sweet baby girl learn about the world around her and grow into her cute and tiny human self.

Here’s to making 2021 the best year that it can be, and celebrating whatever comes our way. Cheers!

Laugh Often – Rachel