01/16/2026
This trend takes people back.
For me, it takes me back to the year we finally exhaled.
The year was 2016.
And it was one of the greatest years of my life…
It was the first year after a long, terrifying cancer battle when my husband was finally done fighting and still here.
It was the year IVF worked, our family grew, and our oldest became a big brother.
It was the year we moved into our home after medical retirement from the military and began building a different kind of future.
2016 was relief. Joy. Gratitude. And a deep exhale after years of survival.
It reminds me that after trauma, goodness can still find us and we feel how good it is because we know what it took to get there.
