Hello, 2025 - Movement, Calm, and Creation

The fireworks have faded, the New Year has officially arrived, and here we are in 2025. Can you believe it? It feels a little surreal, given everything that happened in the last year.

2024, to me, was the year of Movement. It was a year that helped me reach things and places I didn’t expect. So much has happened, and yet, life still felt peaceful. Looking back at the year, I have to say that I’m truly grateful for it. Movement stretched me - it made things happen; things I thought were out of my reach became part of me. It wasn’t always easy, but it brought so much growth.

In this year, 2025, I’m holding on to that momentum, but this year, I want to do it differently. I want to continue creating a life of peace, calm, familiarity, and a life unhurried. I’m learning that movement doesn’t always have to be loud or fast. Sometimes, it’s about steady steps forward, with moments of stillness in between. Rest has been a huge re-learning session for me (and my husband). Since moving out of the big city and into a smaller one, it became easier to find and be at rest - and this was absolutely priceless. Being able to rest has given me energy - and with where we are now, better energy too.

Being a parent, I often forget how much my energy affects everyone in my household. Looking back at the years prior, I see how much I’ve affected my family - and in 2024, I see how much better things have gotten. My relationship with my husband and my kids are better - and our family is more at peace.

We started the year traveling to meet friends and family and to visit places we wanted to discover. 2024 was also the year I rediscovered crocheting - and it has absolutely wrapped me up. I’ve been able to further create the peace I crave for through crocheting. Also, there’s nothing quite like the joy that is brought from my children when I’ve created something for them - be it something they’ve requested for or something random I’ve made. There’s something truly enchanting about creating something in peace and stillness (and sometimes stiffness! - lol). And so, I want 2025 to also be the year of creation.

My motto for 2025 is to Create more than I consume.

I want to create more Moments than I consume looking at them.
I want to create more content than I consume it. ( I need to get rid of my doomscrolling illness!)
I want to create more food than I eat (as in me making it more than eating out or ordering).
I want to create more Memories for my family than I promise.
I want to create more opportunities I will be thankful for, than be consumed by anger or regret by things I am not.
I want to create more things that bring me joy than that of which consumes it.

I want to create more for me, than for anyone else.

So here’s to 2025 - to moving forward without rushing, to finding peace in the little things, and to creating more than consuming.