Today’s blog post is just an exciting life update from this month: I got a new cousin!

Due to quarantine, our family would have to get creative in the way that we could celebrate this newest addition. At the very start of the pandemic, back in April, we held a unique gender reveal. Through a socially distanced family Zoom call, we all gathered to find out the gender. The reveal involved cupcakes that would either have blue or pink icing inside.

Contrary to my prediction, the cupcakes indicated that the baby would be a girl!

A few months later we gathered as a family for a beautiful baby shower.

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Finally on September 12th, four days shy of her due date, my new baby cousin made her arrival into the world! Because of the Coronavirus, we were not able to meet her at the hospital. Instead, we met her a few days later once she came home.

Fellow readers, meet Emily!

LOOK…

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CUTE!

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Though this year has had many gloomy days, anticipating the arrival of a new baby cousin and finally getting to meet her added joy to these past months. I look forward to watching her grow up and someday telling her all about the crazy year she was born in. She certainly is a quarantine miracle.

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Congratulations Aunt Melanie & Frank!