We’re a little over halfway through 2021 and what a year this is shaping up to be. Even though this year has been hard, there are still things to be grateful for.

This month I am grateful for:

1. Rainy days

2. Curated playlists for long drives

3. Fireworks

4. America

5. Yoder’s Country Market

6. Family time in VA

7. Grossy’s Vodka Sawce

8. Trying dinner at The Girl & The Raven

9. S’mores

10. Making it home from VA safely

11. Rainy Days

12. Perfect peonies from Trader Joe’s

13. Fresh hair

14. Working from a coffee shop

15. A quick visit from the nieces

16. Reading a book from 1999 that I ordered from a used bookstore, Y2K-9, it was hilariously 90’s

17. Our first trip to Costco in foooorever

18. Pizza with Aunt Juli

19. School supply shopping <3

20. Another year of Josh

21. Ladies night

22. Strawberry ice cream from Kelly’s

23. A chance to say goodbye

24. Seeing and squeezing Stacy, J, A, & M.

25. Taking Lucy to brunch

26. Buc-ee’s

27. Abingdon visits

28. Cute photos of little me living her best life

29. Lemon baton wafer cookies from Trader Joe’s

30. New colored pencils

31. The Olympics