I am sitting here in my quiet kitchen, reflecting on 2020 and looking ahead to 2021.
Wasn't 2020 just absolutely insane? There is no way that I can sum up our experiences this year in one simple blog post. Our family spent 6 weeks in quarantine, due to COVID-19. Harlee and Matthew spent 8 weeks, I contracted the virus in September and am still fighting some of the symptoms right now...four months later. So many friends of our lost family members to this terrible virus and we are still praying for them every day. A tornado blew our barn away and caused some damage to our house and several other buildings on our property. However, this unfortunate circumstance truly jumpstarted some pretty big property improvements. We rebuilt the barn, fenced in our property, built the Rustic Rooster (a loft playhouse for the girls), and are almost finished with our detached garage...complete with a kitchen, workout space, and bathroom. When school started in August, I totally fell off of the blogging wagon (again), but learned a lot about leading a school during a global pandemic. It's been a year to remember and I would be lying if I said I wasn't ready to forget most of 2020 and move forward. One of my 2021 goals is to blog every week, so look for a post soon about my word-of-the-year. Love, grace, and peace from the farmhouse tonight, friends, Hannah ❤️🏡❤️
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If you've been following me for long, you know that I have had some Christmas card struggles over the years. In fact, I posted about this EXACT problem last February. So this year, instead of wasting money buying Christmas cards and not sending them...I decided to do a digital card. Yes...I am that person. I have moved away from the paper Christmas card (at least for this year) and moved towards the digital world. (I can hear my friend Erin groaning as she reads this.) Getting it designed, ordered, and mailed just wasn't "in the cards" for us this year (see what I did there?). We did have some time to squeeze in a Christmas mini-session for the girls (thanks to my friend Brooke at Spread Your Wings Photography). So I present to you...the Newkirk family Christmas card 2018.  A full year in the farmhouse,
A new job for me, Harlee in middle school, Claire in braces, Mattie enjoying her last year before going to kindergarten next fall. We've learned a lot and we've grown a lot. We are blessed. Merry Christmas from our family to yours and much love from the farmhouse. ❤️🏡❤️ Every single year, I take pictures of the girls and purchase Christmas cards in the beginning of December. Every single year, I don't send them on time. Like really... Every. Single. Year. In fact, when we moved out to the farmhouse, I literally kept three prints from the last several years' of cards and threw the rest away. 😫
And in mid-December, I mailed some!
I mailed a whole SIX cards, in fact! I also handed out some cards at church and even gave some to a few of our family members! That is a definite improvement from years past. However, come January 31st, the rest of them were still in a pile in my office...ready to be mailed out. So I set a goal for myself to mail them by Valentine's Day. And this morning, I am dropping them off to the post office. I didn't order as many cards as I did in the past and didn't even get to some of the people on my Christmas card list...so I still wouldn't call it a success. But it was an adequate effort. Maybe 2018 will be the year that I get my Christmas card life together. We'll see. Merry Valentine's Day from the Farmhouse, friends. 'Tis the Season! ❤️🎁🏡🎄❤️ |
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