Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday week! We had family in town and we got tons of snow, so we spent most of the week lounging at home in our jammies, rotating between Christmas movies and hot chocolate and sledding and snow days. We slept in, played games, made meals, and just had a wonderful low key and lazy holiday. As always, I think I’ll start and finish 42 projects just because Drew is taking a few days off but in truth, we really didn’t do much of anything (in a good way) and it was really what was needed. We’re now ready to start 2022 with a good reset!
We had a lovely New Year’s Eve at home with a few neighbors and my parents and we had a bonfire and toasted marshmallows and wrote down our wishes for the new year and tossed them into the fire. Then the neighbors went home and we rang in the New Year with pots and pan banging and cider toasting in our jammies. It was perfect! One of our favorite traditions is our tinsel tree where we take off all the ornaments and fill that baby with tinsel. I love it so much and never want it to come down.
I am always an optimist about a new year and love the changes and fresh start that come with it. I always feel ready to make some changes and to dream big and shake off old fears and worries. My goal for this year is to focus on what really matters, a happy and healthy home. We are in desperate need of some organizing and de-cluttering and fully plan to jump right in with that! We have a few exciting house projects planned and a few fun trips this year so we’re excited to hunker down and get serious with our budget again. Something that always feels so hard to start but sooooo worthwhile and good once you get going. I want to be more intentional with my time and what I allow into my mind and home. I want to say “yes” to my kids a little more and have fun and choose joy.
More new recipes, more trying hard things, more date nights, more patience, more laughing with my kids, more good books, more making out with my husband, more drinking water, more kindness.
Less of everything else.
We are always on board for a fresh start and I have a feeling 2022 will be all about that.
Happy New Year, friends! May it be the best one yet! XO