Hello my darlings! I know I know… this is the last (and more or less the first post of 2021 save for one pithy one written back in April of this year…. which may as well have been a life-time ago).
Better late than never I always say!
2021 has been full of self-discoveries and self-realization... largely concentrated in harnessing my own capabilities and realizing what I can accomplish if I put my mind to something. That said, it was also the year of "not enough" -- not enough time with my family, with my husband, not enough time spent on sleeping... self care, of resting... of going to the doctors to do simple routine check-ups, of checking up on friends, of asking myself questions such as "how do you feel and are you okay?"
To some extent, I know that I can never fully fix all of the above, because I am a different person now than I was when I first launched this blog back in 2012 -- and that is expected. You would want me to be, nothing can ever remain static and be exactly as it was. I'm not a mother of two growing boys, a wife and daughter, a leader of 30 plus people at my job, and someone who, on a daily basis, just wants to do her best and make it through the day feeling like she's accomplished something. Some days are better than others, and some moments feel absolutely glorious while others pale in comparison. Do I regret what I've built on this platform? Absolutely not... but it will look different (as you would expect it to) after nearly a decade of blogging.
These photos were taken tonight (there's nothing like the beauty of the present) at Serafina in East Hampton (yes I know, some things haven't changed and we're still spending loads of our time out in the Hamptons). It was a quiet evening as we soaked in the last moments of this year. Exactly as it was always meant to be!
Happy New Year my friends. Here's to an abundantly healthy, fruitful, happy, and altogether different 2022!!!
