As I write this, it's Christmas Eve, and I'm sitting in my kitchen with treats baking in the oven (baked brie!), hot cocoa steaming on the stove (so yummy with peppermint liqueur and Baileys added!), and some sliced cheeses and homemade tapenade in the fridge as I wait for Dan to get home from work. All my Christmas shopping is done, and now I'm just waiting for Dan to walk through to door so we can snuggle up and enjoy all these goodies, unless I devour them all before then. Ella and Nat are playing on the turntable and I feel so incredibly blessed spending our first Christmas in our very own home. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all you lovely souls out there!
![This print feels even more relevant today. We all joke about the dumpster fire of [insert year here], but the important message of this image to me is that *we persist* through the horrors. We stand, we fight— maybe for ourselves, maybe for oth](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574dddd6d51cd4bc35c1609a/1730935170369-03GPKQ5NF73VAE65RHO6/image-asset.jpeg)
