Merry Yule and Christmas and Happy New Year

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.