Pop The Cork On 2025!

Sheryl Lilly Pidgeon | Writer and Editor-in-Chief, Goodlifefamilymag.com

Who doesn’t love a celebration? However make no mistake – a celebration is most rewarding after loads of exhausting work and dedication; and the more durable the duty at hand, the sweeter the success. Now, as we toast to our 10^th anniversary, the GLF staff and I look again with so much to have a good time. We now have gone out on a limb in each side of our lives however, like Mark Twain famously stated, “Why not exit on a limb? Isn’t that the place the fruit is?” I can say with conviction that I’ve by no means labored (professionally talking) as exhausting on something as I’ve on Good Life Household and GoodLifeFamilyMag.com. I’ve invested my coronary heart, thoughts and assets into making GLF a PUBLICATION WITH A PURPOSE. We now have grown, we have now gained momentum, and we’re making a distinction.

Within the new yr, you will notice some large modifications coming to Good Life Household. We’re fine-tuning a brand new emblem and re-branding to incorporate a broader tackle the phrase household as a result of we all know that the function of parenting usually consists of aunts, uncles, associates, and so forth. After we launched Good Life Household again in 2015, most of our core staff was navigating life with center schoolers. Now, these tweens and teenagers are of their 20’s – some are married and planning households of their very own. So, we’re rising up too. We’ll broaden our voice to incorporate youthful dad and mom, infants and toddlers, and grandparenting recommendation, whereas nonetheless offering leisure and journey assets for all ages, extra of our money-saving hacks, work-life stability methods, and a lot extra.

As well as, we want to incorporate your voice extra. We wish our readers to weigh in with their ideas and ideas for different households going via this journey collectively. We’re engaged on a digital City Corridor-style gathering of the minds. We additionally plan to assist youthful voices get heard. In case your youngsters are budding writers, illustrators or photographers, please allow them to know we welcome their expertise. We additionally plan to launch a world ebook membership and add a Factors of View discussion board on new film releases.

To affix us on our mission to teach, encourage and inspire constructive change, attain out to Paige Jackson, our Advertising and marketing and Content material Supervisor, at Paige.GLFmag@gmail.com.

As a writer and founding father of Good Life Household, I need to take a second to toast my superb staff of execs – editors, proofreaders, managers, writers and designers, 4 of whom had been there from the start. Thanks for sharing my ardour to make a distinction within the lives of others by giving of your time and expertise. I additionally need to thank our shoppers, our promotional companions and advertisers. With out you, we’d not be capable of do the necessary work we cherish.

As a mother, there isn’t a higher celebration than the well being and happiness of my grownup youngsters, Bryce, 26, who married his longtime love (they began courting as freshmen in highschool!) Daria, who we whole-heartedly welcomed into the flock, Jaxie, 25 and Lindsey, 23. Every of them have “flown the nest” and are thriving in their very own journeys. Though I traded useful time with them to embark on the GLF journey (balancing household and work is a continuous problem for many of us, and a constant subject in our pages), the upside of that commerce is that my youngsters are witnessing first-hand the fervour that goes into creating one thing worthy of celebration. Actually, they all the time discovered methods to pitch in to assist or cheer me on. I’m grateful for his or her help and sacrifice and for giving me the most effective job title within the universe: mother.

As a daughter, I’m reminded that being a part of the “Sandwich Era” – these of us sandwiched between elevating our children and supporting our personal growing older dad and mom – is each difficult and rewarding work and that every day must be celebrated.

Lastly, no celebration is full with out superb associates. We have a good time the peaks (boy, will we!), however extra importantly, we’re alongside one another within the valleys. Deep friendships are constructed brick by brick and fortified by the take a look at of time.

As I’ve continued to develop as an individual (a lot of that progress attributed to the knowledge of our consultants for over a decade in Good Life Household!) and outline my life within the “empty nest,” I’ve discovered numerous alternatives to welcome new associates into my orbit. I’ve discovered that assembly a pal at this level in my life usually seems like an on the spot connection, one that’s simple, sincere, clear, soulful, such as you’ve recognized this particular person ceaselessly – or want you had – and I’m going to cherish these relationships as they proceed to develop and develop within the years to come back.

Equally, now that I’ve extra work-life stability, I’ve discovered the time to succeed in out to and welcome again previous associates, some from my early childhood, who had remained in my coronary heart, however life took us aside geographically. Spending time with these superb associates is a real celebration of the time period life-long.