01/16/2026
2016…
The year I went full in on my own business… and the year I lost my mom.
The year hold deeply profound polarity for me. So much to celebrate along side the greatest, most heartbreaking loss of my life.
Snapchat filters were life, started the year with homemade Perogies with Oma, went all in on myself and quit my job and started in the , zip lined with my sister for my birthday, went to Vegas for wild bachelorette party, drove through Washington to Portland and had a delightful hipster weekend with my girls, surprised Matt with weekend tickets to the world rugby 7s, snowboarding, 29 days in the season, ran my first and only 10 K, Matt and I finally got some photos together, dove deep into our gardening, and of course, more Snapchat filters.
Then in October, my perfect sweet, bff of a mom was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. We ended up with only 28 days until she was gone. It was the most life altering DNA rearranging event in my life so far. There is life before, and life after losing my mom, and I will never be the same person that I was.
I hope in the 10 years that I still make her proud, it was then that I vowed then to always live a heart lead life.
Here’s to the transformative energy that 2016 carried and still carries for me right now.
