Appreciate

December 14 – What’s the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year? How do you express gratitude for it?

I appreciate family more. After sepnding 4 years away in New York and adding one child to our family, I really realized the importance of family. You need help and support and it can be really hard and lonely being so far away. I also realized that our daughter also needs to feel like she is part of a larger family as well. So she can have cousins to play with and aunts and uncles to know and give her a sense of community.

I express gratitude for it by trying to be present at every family gathering and being thankful that I have a family to come back to.