2015 in Review
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
I hope 2015 was a year that asked questions, because I don't have very much room for any more uncertainty these days.
2015 was a bad year.
- My parents split up and moved out of the house that used to be one of my favorite places in the world.
- Rob and I were in a car accident.
- My mom got cancer and had two surgeries.
- I took a step back from blogging and came back uninspired; feeling like I was flailing about in a sea of uncertainty while my peers raced ahead steadily.
- I tested positive for a BRCA gene mutation that increases my risk of breast cancer up to 84%.
And yet, it was a good one, too.
- We rescued a puppy and fell in love with him (as I'm sure you could tell from his ridiculous first birthday party).
- I was invited to speak at my alma mater about creating an unconventional job with an English degree, which I will always look back on as the first big honor of my career.
- We celebrated our first year of marriage in a city that finally feels like home.
- I teamed up with Courtney of Sweet C's Designs to pitch my first really huge blogging project and found myself on a sponsored trip to California to put our plans in action.
- We made a handful of really great friends and managed to maintain some old traditions in new ways--including sushi and bowling the day after Thanksgiving and a Love Actually girls night after a visit to a local holiday market.
I'm looking forward to so many new things in 2016--more travel, reading a ton of books, studying Spanish again, learning a few new skills (I have my heart set on hand lettering), and hopefully less heartbreak.
We all have so much to be thankful for, don't we?
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to run on the light.”
Happy New Year, friends.