10/10/2024
Happy, happy birthday to me. 🥳 My beautiful self. ✨My goodness it has been one hell of a roller coaster 🎢 of a year for me! So many ups ⬆️ and too many really dark downs.
But what a wonderful day like a birth day to remember just how grateful we are to be alive! Another day. ☀️ Another year. 🗓️
What an incredible blessing. I’m so grateful for the love, the loss. The experiences. I spent an incredible 17 days with my gorgeous daughters in the most beautiful places. Truly magnificent. Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, The Vatican, The Amalfi Coast but absolutely nothing, nothing compared to the love of my Sicilian 🇮🇹 Family.
Thank you so so much to Adriana Mulè who was only 12 years old the last time I was there. And now all grown up this beautiful woman and her husband gave up their entire apartment to host the girls and I. Beautiful places, feasts upon feasts with love, laughter and food oh my goodness the food. I am so absolutely blessed. Thank you Laura Accardo - ti voglio tanto bene. Daniela Calandrino, Enrico Accardo, Giuseppa Mancuso. The stories of my ancestors. My heart ❤️ is so beyond full.
Its so easy to focus on what we don’t have but to be loved is life’s greatest gift. There’s nothing more I could have asked for this year. This trip changed my life, my trajectory and what is truly important in life.