Friends and family, loved ones near and far, Hannah and I
wanted to take a moment to extend some Holiday warmth and cheer to you and
yours. As most of you know, our 2017 has been wrought with change. As if we
jumped into the Tower card of the nearest Tarot deck, we have been faced with
sudden and life altering situations that have made for one intense 2017. Early
in the year Hannah underwent a surgery that brought with it a slow and painful
recovery. Later in the year, on the first of October, in fact, our apartment
complex gave us 30 days to vacate as they had become a tax credit property and
we no longer qualified to live there. The good news was that they gave us a
rehoming stipend to help; the bad news was that October happened to be the
month of our wedding.
It was only with the help of our amazing friends that we
were able to accomplish a Friday the 13th Wedding, a honeymoon to Seattle, and
a move-out in the span of a month. Sanity aside, we then began the very adult
task of shopping for a house. No more renting for us. We were ready to put down
some real roots. We stayed with friends and my parents while looking for a home
and finally, two months to the day after our wedding, we closed on a house on
Wellesley.
I cannot thank you enough, all of you, for helping Hannah
and I make it through this turbulent time to find peace just in time for Yule,
Christmas, and New Years. Making it through this year wouldn’t have been
possible without your helping hands and encouragement.
Thank you so much to all those who listened to our woes and
helped us ground our emotions, who walked backwards up a ramp hauling a
handcart loaded with hundreds of books, who arrived early, who stayed late, who
donated money to our honeymoon, who stunned us with generosity, who humbled us
with kindness, who kept us going with positive energy and litanies of ‘good
luck’ and ‘hang in there.’ Hannah and I have been so stressed that we may not
have seemed as grateful as we actually felt. So I tell you now: dear friends
and family, know that we love and appreciate you and wish you peace and joy
during this magical time of year.
