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Said goodbye to 34 last night with some of my favorite people who made the year so great! 34 might have been the best year of my life—it was a year of transformation, of beautiful, life-renewing change. 🦋 Naïma and motherhood have brought me so much joy; it was like something switched in me after her birth that unlocked all this deep, deep peace and happiness. I am so grateful for everything I’ve learned this last year, everything I’ve let go of, and the person I’ve become is the one I’ve waited my whole life to be. Hello 35! I’m heading into this next year with deep gratitude and much hope, much happiness. 🥰🌼

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Reunited with my bestie! Such a treat to bop around our old haunts, and to introduce her to the newest member of the squad. 🥹❤️ Love you, E!

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A year ago, Aric and I had the most gorgeous Tunisian wedding in the old Medina of Tunis! My wonderful father and aunt arranged everything for us, with such care, and it was the perfect evening with our family and friends. Because we were in heavy vacation mode following the wedding (we went to Djerba with the fam!), we didn’t get a chance to post many photos of it! Here are some to celebrate our 1 year (Tunisian!) anniversary. 🥰 Enormous thank you to @abdeslemtrabelsi for these beautiful photos! 💕🌺

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July snippets 📷🌻

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Bestie came to visit and we had the best time!! 🎆🐆🦒🍝🍨🥐🛍️🦈 E, I am SO grateful for you and so very glad we got to have one last girls weekend before we add another member to our power team. 🥹👯‍♀️🍼 Love you so much!

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big ol thrift convention…. much fun with my people 🤡

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I might be in the minority, but New Year’s Eve is one of my favorite holidays. I don’t do anything glamorous or exciting. Rather, for nearly a decade now, I’ve had a tradition of spending the day in deep reflection. I look through my journals and photos, and back on the year. Through this reflection, each year, I take stock of how I’ve grown, and I determine what I need next, to continue growing. I set an intention for the year, a theme of sorts, summed up in a word or short phrase. I set goals, too, both yearlong and daily ones, and write a page of mantras, quotes, and general wisdom I’d like to keep in mind as I work toward them. And I journal. A lot. I love the act of crossing the threshold from one year to the next, of acknowledging my blessings and successes, recognizing what hasn’t served me, and setting/changing course. It’s a reset and a starting point. An opening of possibility. Everything, good and bad, that has happened belongs in my story. I feel deep gratitude and awe for my being alive for another year.

2023’s word was “slow,” and just about everyone who’s known that has found that a little absurd. It’s a year in which I taught for multiple institutions, got married (twice!), had seemingly countless medical tests, procedures, and a major surgery, moved, and was a PhD student. So not uneventful! But those things would not have been possible if I hadn’t learned to slow down in my daily life, to rest instead of filling up every moment. I’ve said no more than I ever have this year, and it felt great! 2023 was one of the best years of my life, not because it was easy, but because, for the first time in so long, I really lived it. After years of pain, I felt myself returning to the world, to the person I was. Not quite the same. But I’m learning to love where I’m at, who I am, what is. I’m so grateful. A good year. A necessary year. Now onward. 🤍

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We solemnly swear we are up to no good ⚡️

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What luck! The day after receiving our American wedding video, we woke up to find our Tunisian one waiting for us! 🥹 I am grateful beyond words to my father and Tata Samia who planned the entire wedding for us—it was perfect in every way, everything I could have dreamed. I am so, so lucky. My family is everything to me, and it was one of the greatest joys in my life to celebrate with them. I’m so grateful, too, that my bestie of 20+ years, Elissa, was able to come to Tunisia for the first time to join us! Love you all so much! ❤️🤍🪬🧿

Thank you to our photographer/videographer @abdeslemtrabelsi for capturing this night so beautifully! 🤍

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Carthage!

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Tunisia snapshots 📸

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Belated besties pic because this HAS to live on the ‘gram. Can’t believe it’s been a week since that bonkers amazing weekend—these three (and Miss L of course) made it so. A wedding celebrates romantic love, but it’s also a day to be with the rest of the people you love most, and these three have a particularly special, eternal place in my heart. Love you til the end of time. I am so lucky to know you. 💕

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