A Blessed Year in Review

 2025 was a good year. So many blessings, special things, graces and highlights. It was year unlike any other. Every year is so unique and different from the other, right? 2025 stood out to me, and also not as heavy or challenging like 2023 or 2024 seemed more consistently. There were definitely a lot of uplifting things. 

Some of the highlights-

Meeting author and speaker, Immaculee Ilibagiza! She's my favorite author. I love her writing and testimony and strong faith, in the rosary, and Our Lady. Her story is so moving, impactful. That why I've reread it so many times over the years. 

Watching The Chosen Season 5 in Theatres. Truly special and meaningful.

Welcoming another nephew and niece, both in May! 

Became a teacher at a Catholic school taught 20 students

Got a tutoring client

Did some of the Rosary in a Year Podcast

Studied and took the Math CBEST

Went on a Eucharistic Day retreat in June, and finding out and about and reading the book about Sr. Clare Crockett

Getting into my first minor car crash, and luckily it wasn't my fault and had a rental car for a little over a week

Went to some Young Adult Ministry events, and the Beloved Dinner in SF

Family Reunion

Had a special and meaningful birthday turning 33

Went to Monterey

Went to Half Moon Bay 3 times

Read some great books, about 56 books total

And many more happenings and blessings, Adoration, Mass, exercise, swimming, exercise class, meet ups with my dear sister on a somewhat regular basis, kept writing on here, studying Russian with an online language course, went on an online dating site and had 4 video calls with 4 different guys, sister meet up, friend meet ups, and so much more, in between, ordinary days, but blessed days, some harder days, struggles, sometimes staying off social media for a time. 

A Marian year it felt with rosaries, consecration to Our Lady again, wearing Marian jewelry made by my sister and teaching my students about Our Lady of Guadalupe, starting Rosary in a Year Podcast, and praying 54 Day Rosary Novena. I know our Lady will be guiding this next year.

 Happy New Year!