Short and Sweet

Our favorite way to begin a new year has always included travel, food, and friends. This will be our first time being home for the holiday in about 5 years, and while part of me is sad about this, another part of me is so used to disappointment this year, I hardly feel phased by it at all. Don’t get me wrong, I will still be cooking something yummy, and will be drinking champagne, but whether or not I make it to midnight, is yet to be determined.

Without being able to see our friends and family, I am not sure what the best way to celebrate a brand new year should look like, perhaps, quiet and simple, much like every other holiday over the last year. If this year has brought us anything, it is the ability to adapt and reimagine what life can be like, and I think that may be a good thing to bring with us into 2021.

I am not sure what else to say that hasn’t already been said, other than I feel strongly that this coming year will bring more good than 2020 held, and that it makes me hopeful to believe that.

This post is meant to be a virtual “cheers” to all of you, and to all, we gave up and let go of over this last year. It is meant to be an olive branch offering to life, and to all the ways we felt we have been let down. Hopefully, it is a way to connect us when while we can’t be together.

So, simply put, Happy New Year, from us, from our Burrow family to yours. May this year bring you joy, and relief, and love. All the goodness you wished for, and all the peace you needed.

Love,

Mandy, Billy, Ben, and Oliver Nguyen