Hey Y’all!! I’m so excited to finally have time again to work creatively and create content for y’all! I’ve had a lot of change in the past 10 months and haven’t had the time, bandwidth or energy to share like I’ve always wanted to. But because of all of the changes that I’ve made, I now have lots of free time to share with y’all and pursue my dream of blogging!!
At the end of last October, I ended a 9 year relationship and decided to start all over. It was an excruciatingly painful decision, but the best thing I’ve ever done for myself. It didn’t just affect me though, my family has definitely also been hurt and gained and lost by my decision and I’ll forever be thankful for their unconditional love and support. It is not lost on me that most don’t have those kinds of relationships in their lives, especially with their families and I’m so thankful that God has blessed me with amazing parents, a wonderful sister, and wonderful, supportive friends that I consider my family also!
That decision also led me to have to change jobs. I had a lot of support from the company that I was formerly at, but it just wasn’t feasible for me to continue my employment there. I had made a friend through my work at the time that led me to my current job in Clinical Research. I’ve been so blessed and thankful to have this opportunity, even though it required me to travel and do things that were very scary to me that I’d never done before. Before I started my job in December, I had only flown once, with my mom. I was now required to start flying every other week, at minimum, alone. I was terrified! I remember the first time I flew to New Orleans, I had a connection in Dallas and I was so scared! My mom dropped me off at the airport and the second I walked through the doors I started crying and cried all the way to Dallas. I was so scared and wasn’t sure if I could do this job or not and was very overwhelmed with all of the changes and things going on. But I made it to New Orleans and got checked into my hotel and had a really good first visit. On the way back, I had a connection in Atlanta and I remembered having to walk from concourse A to concourse D. I was only familiar with “gates” not “concourses” and I didn’t know where the Plane Train would take me and I walked what felt like miles haha.
On December 10th I went on a first date with the love of my life! We were set up by our best friends and talked for a little while before we met. We went downtown and had the best time! I was laughing constantly, we had the best conversation and life has been so sweet ever since!
In January we had my sister’s baby shower! She was the most beautiful glowing mama to be and we had the best time celebrating her!
In March baby Brody was born and my sweet sister became a mama and I became an aunt! My parents became Gram and Pappaw and they’re the happiest that I’ve ever seen them! Brody is the sweetest baby and Emily and Ryan are the best parents! We love him so much and spent the first six weeks with them to try to help everyone get settled and get used to their new normal.
Shortly after that we made the decision to finish renovating my home and put it on the market. I bought my home that I grew up in from my Dad whenever I graduated nursing school and had been renovating it from top to bottom for the last seven years. We worked nonstop day and night to try to finish the house and get it on the market ASAP to take advantage of this crazy market! We got it finished and put it on the market and headed to the beach to relax! The house sold within a week and we just closed a little over a week ago! I can’t explain how wonderful it feels to be out of there and to have moved on. I have wonderful memories of growing up there and hosting parties and making memories with friends and spending so much fun time with my mom, but it was time to move on.
We moved the weekend before we closed! Jonathan was very adamant that we have movers. My family has always been the type to do things ourselves and I was convinced that we did not need movers. EVERYONE- I WAS WRONG! GET THE MOVERS! Haha it was the hardest, most labor intensive thing I’ve ever done! Especially with that Anthropologie mirror that is 200 lb and seven feet tall! We did it though and even though it was tough, it was a really good day!
That next week I was working like a crazy lady trying to travel for work and get all of the boxes unpacked and everything organized because Jonathan didn’t know it, but I had one of his best friends from Pharmacy school coming to surprise him and a surprise birthday party the following weekend! He was so tired from work and didn’t understand why we had to unpack and organize everything and finish the guest room when no one would even see it soon! haha
All of the plans for the surprise and surprise party went exactly according to plan and the party was beautiful and we had the best time! I’m so thankful to friends and family for all of the help and support to make all of these changes happen. I’m not usually a fan of change unless it’s my idea, but if I’ve learned anything this past year, it’s that God has such a bigger and better plan than we do for ourselves and everything will always, always work out. And sometimes when we don’t get what we thought we deserved, it’s because there’s something so much better coming for us. I’m so thankful and blessed to be able to be where I am today and I can’t imagine life any other way now! One of the best things I bought for the party was an instant film camera that shoots vintage looking film! We had a photo booth and lots of props and it was so fun to have those instant photos! I highly recommend doing that!
All that to say, I have lots more free time now to work on content for y’all and I’m so excited for all of the things that are coming! I’ve made dozens of lists for content and reel ideas and I can’t wait to see what y’all think!