Life is a whirlwind. But, instead of stating the obvious (since everyone’s life is…not just ours) I’ll instead share what’s been happening and what lies ahead for us. We do have a lot of exciting things going on right now – my goal is the figure out a way to enjoy it all instead of letting it weigh on me like a suffocating cloud.

With my new job, things are going incredibly. I love it. It’s the happiest I’ve been in a long time at work and I truly feel like I’m doing something I was made for. Combining my love for parenting, marketing, and B2C focus has always been my passion and it’s exciting to come back to this side of marketing after a while away. The added bonus is how much I’m learning – not having the crutch of a large team or even a true manager to help me with stuff is just what I needed to take more risks. Here’s to hoping we make this business grow!

On the home front, we’re moving! We have a month left at our favorite place in the whole world before we move, well, a mile away. While the distance isn’t extreme (thankfully!), it’s definitely going to be a big change for us…getting to the actual move will be the hardest part but all exciting stuff.

And then there’s our girl – she’s a firecracker these days. She’s so fun to watch. She is an actual person now with serious interests, ridiculous demands, and sporadic dislikes. Recently, she has a lot of funny things that I’m sure we’ll forget even though they all seem like such constants of her personality.

Her typical day involves lots of activities! She usually wakes up at 5am after 8.5 hours of sleep, we let her cry and/or lay her back down until 5:45-6am if we can, she has a bottle (yes, still), and we read books to kick off the day. We watch Curious George at 6:30am, have breakfast of a waffle/fruit at 7:30am and try to do something fun inside for a couple hours before she demands to leave. She loves to be outside – and kinda hates being home. That said, it’s all about habit for her. Once she has breakfast, she wants to put on her hat and shoes immediately and brings our shoes to us to we can leave. She does the sign for outside, which also pretty much means she’s done with whatever she’s doing at the moment. She likes to walk herself to the park so explaining safety and holding hands has been fun — she, as you can imagine, does NOT like to hold our hands and wants to walk on her own. She always uses her utensils (or else), is obsessed with fruit, and only consistently eats cucumbers in the vegetable category. She loves being chased and chasing others, loves playing anywhere and doing anything that is not intended for children, loves helping clean up, starting to figure out how to climb on and off the couch, walks up and down stairs with no hands (and falls often), and really loves to laugh and talk (my kinda girl).

As expected, too, we are clouded by sleep loss. Both Jordan and I have a lot going on outside of parenting (again, so does everyone), but without proper sleep, we just feel like zombies. Eventually, I’d like to believe we’ll both just get used to it (since it’s clear our child is just not going to be a great sleeper), but I fear otherwise. The thing is, Delaney sleeps now…just not very much. So, when we have a really bad night due to illness or teething or traveling or whatever else we can find to blame it on, we just don’t have the stored up sleep that we need to be able to handle it well.

I want to look back on these memories of our “issues” and laugh. Because I know how good we have it. I really do. Our life is incredible. We have the best family, the best friends, the best girl, and a really full, fun, and exciting life that we love.

My goal for Spring and beyond is to be grateful instead of fearful. Because we have plenty to be thankful for and very little to be fearful of.