2014 was a bittersweet year for us. We kicked it off in NYC for New Years with great friends, survived a very snowy winter that lasted until March, and celebrated 3 years of happily wedded bliss when spring finally came. We watched my little sister graduate with her BFA and celebrated her accomplishments with family and friends over the summer. We started and finished our first DIY home project- tiling our basement floor- and celebrated our nation's birthday back in NYC. We vacationed and drank wine in San Francisco and Napa, California followed almost immediately by another restful vacation with family in the outer banks. We celebrated loving unions of many friends and I took my first sailboat ride. The fall brought me a new, exciting, and challenging job and one of the most joyous discoveries of our lives so far... becoming pregnant with with our newest addition to come, TLO (The Little One). Tory kicked butt in his first marathon and winter brought quiet holiday celebrations with family and loved ones.
Among all of the excitement, we had our share of heartache. We lost our first baby and grieved for lost loved ones. I battled with fear and trusting in God's plan and provision for us and worked through a lot of grief and anxiety. Tory's patience was tried and tested. But we came out on the other side. I turned 28 and Tory turned 29 and life has finally slowed down a little... for now.
Expecting a baby means expecting change, and that's where we are right now... not actively in transition but anticipating all that is to come.
I've been a disloyal blogger for the last 4 years over at my first blog, that has been sorely neglected since 2012. When active blogging wasn't working for me, I purchased a lovely, leather-bound journal to try documenting little bits of life when time was available. But time never seemed to be available for handwritten journaling and after some time away from blogging with one, single, particularly therapeutic post I've made since 2012, I have decided that my brain does better when I have an outlet.
I am not particularly athletic or creative, but I do enjoy writing and I am assuming that all of the big transitions coming up will give me lots of material... so welcome to"The D Family Does Life." And because I am especially cool and trendy, the DeLongs now have an unofficial family hashtag: #theDfamilydoeslife... check it out, it's real and it's aaaallll ours (until someone else tags it).
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