As much as this blog allows me to celebrate everything that’s going well for us, there are a lot of things that I wish could have gone a little differently this past year.

This was my first year out of school and my first opportunity to have a full-time job that lasted for more than the summer months. It was also my first year of marriage and the opportunity to fully pursue the “homesteading dream” that Ian and I have talked about for so long.

It was a year full of sky-high expectations, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that I ended disappointed with myself.

As an example, I wrote a post about the disaster of this year’s garden a few months ago. It was a great post. I got to pretend I was completely over the weedy chaos and ready to laugh at our failures. The truth? I wasn’t, and I’m still not.

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