Joie de Vivre

As you can see, the blog has undergone a pretty drastic makeover and name change and I am thrilled with the new look (thank you, Eclair Designs!)!

Ever since we found out that I was pregnant, I’ve been trying to decide what to do with this blog. Exactly 1 year and 1 month ago, I changed the blog from public to private and since then it has been mainly operating on auto-pilot as an extension of my Instagram feed. I love Instagram – it absolutely documents our day-to-day life from the little things like our Coffee Friday tradition (which has now turned into hot chocolate Friday for me, ha!) to the bigger things like announcing our pregnancy.

Having a baby girl on the way has made me realize that I really do want to document this pregnancy and our life along the way, and I want to do so with a little more narrative than just the one-or two-liner captions that are Instagram appropriate. The time is going by SO fast and I want to remember every minute of it! Being pregnant has also made me realize how much I have been relying on other blogs around the web for things like pregnancy & parenting advice, healthy recipe suggestions, and baby gear reviews (so. much. baby. stuff.).  My hope is that I can build this blog back up to not only be a great virtual scrapbook of our life (for us, our little girl, and our families), but that our experiences might become resources (or inspiration even?) for other people.

With that, I give you:

After spending the past few weeks thinking about names, I stumbled across the French phrase, Joie 
de Vivre. The various definitions are fabulous:

Exuberant enjoyment of life. 
A feeling of happiness and excitement about life. 
A love of life. 
Joy of conversation, joy of eating, and joy of living.

YES!

That is exactly what I’m talking about! Just about everything I post on Instagram has to do with joie de vivre: whipping up a new recipe, savoring a delicious meal with friends, curling up with a new book, traveling, doing something exciting at work, being re-energized after a good workout, or spending time with family.

And just like that, Joie de Vivre became the perfect name and description for this space.
This blog is our joie de vivre.
And I love it already!