A Fresh Start to 2021 and Quick Recap of our Holiday

Hello! Happy belated New Year and cheers to 2021! Wow, I felt the holidays just flew by. We spent our time relaxing, getting outside, organizing, cooking, eating, drinking, and binge-watching TV. Anyone else watch Bridgerton? I felt everyone did over the holidays.

I went into 2021 with a few intentions, no resolutions, just intentions on how I want this year to go (with as much control as I am allowed, we are still in a pandemic). After getting through 2020, I had a lot of clarity on going forward into this year.

motherhood | I want to be a more present mother, wife and have more family time outside of our living room haha. Hence all the outdoor walks and adventures lately.

marriage | Curtis and I are both making an effort to strengthen our marriage, having a baby is no joke, it does take a toll on your relationship with sleepless nights, anxiety, and stress. But we are doing good and working on communicating more.

friendships | Lastly, I just want to build better friendships! I have a few friends, I don’t have many, but I need to cultivate them more. I try to reach out when I can and make plans, but having a pandemic thrown into the mix isn’t helpful in seeing each other frequently. I want to have better friendships where it’s not just one-sided, where the other person actively checks in, being a mom, sometimes I do fall off the radar, my days blur together some weeks and when the evening comes around I’m exhausted.

Anyone else finds making friends in their 30s challenging?

Anyways, before this becomes a rant on friendships and then to shitty friendships, let’s recap our holiday!

It was a different Christmas, for everyone across the board. We spent it with my parents, they babysit Rowan regularly and that was allowed in our province. It was lowkey, relaxing and Rowan had fun. She tried out new foods, she now loves crabcakes, opened a ton of gifts (spoilt by my parents, nana and family!), watched Christmas movies and played with her new toys.

We went for lots of walks when it was nice out, visited Bloedel Conservatory, celebrated Curtis’s birthday two days after Christmas, and spent NYE at home eating good food and drinking too much (well Curtis did, I’m sure he had a hangover for days HAHA).

I’ve eased back into work, the first week of January was hard. With what went down in the states, the news, further lockdowns, weather, I was exhausted and felt burnt out mentally. Do I have a long list of blog posts, IG reels, Youtube videos, and more to create? Yes, yes I do. Am I going to put pressure on myself to get them all done in a crazy timeline? No. With a 9 month old that walks now, I don’t get much time during the day to sit down and type away or shoot in peace and quiet. I’m also trying to carve out more time to work out, read more, play my Nintendo Switch (present from Curtis!) and have baths on the regular. So, I think for this month until I get that balance down right, I am not putting pressure on myself to do a crazy amount of work. It’s actually the quiet time of the year for brand campaigns and I’m going to take advantage of that. I want to enjoy Rowan’s last couple of months before she turns one, take her to her music and art classes, explore Vancouver with her, and feel like I’m actually on maternity leave for once.

Those are my thoughts, maybe this was rambly, but I wanted to get it all down on “paper”.

You can also see our vlogmas videos here, we did weekly ones for December! It will be nice to look back on one day.

What are your intentions for this year? Are you done with resolutions?