04/30/2026
I’ve been a little quiet here, and I wanted to share why 🤍
Over the past year, life has shifted in some very meaningful ways. With a recent promotion in my work in healthcare, and changes at home, including becoming grandparents and welcoming another grandbaby arriving at the end of this year. Matt and I have stepped into a very different season of life.
It’s been full, beautiful, and a reminder to be intentional about where my time and energy goes, and what I want this chapter to feel like.
And the honest truth is this:
I realized I was trying to turn something I loved into something that needed to perform.
What began as joy—growing flowers, being outside, creating beauty—slowly became something I had to manage, produce, and keep up with. Over time, it took more than it gave.
I also came to a really important realization for myself: when something that is meant to be joy becomes something that has to be monetized, it can quietly stop being joy at all. And I’ve learned that some things are not meant to be optimized or turned into output they’re meant to simply be loved. And that is, well, simply, ENOUGH.
My work in healthcare is deeply meaningful and requires a lot of me in both rewarding and demanding ways, and I’ve come to understand I can’t give fully to everything at once without something important being lost along the way.
So I made a decision I feel completely at peace with:
I’m stepping back from running Windy Maple Flower Farm as a full business.
No more weddings, subscriptions, or weekly bouquets.
Instead, I’m choosing to keep the flowers as something personal again—something I can enjoy without pressure or expectation—and to lean more fully into my family, my work, and this new season with Matthew.
But the peonies… I could never keep those to myself.
They’re too fleeting, too abundant, too breathtaking in their moment. They arrive all at once in a quiet kind of spectacle, and then they’re gone. It would never feel right not to share them.
So, during peony season, I will still offer them in a simple, limited way and I’ll share details here when the time comes.
If you’ve loved this space, I hope you’ll stay close for that part of the season with me 🤍
Thank you, for being here, for supporting something that meant so much to me, and for allowing it to evolve. It isn't disappearing —it is just changing shape.
Here's to the flowers, and to each of you!
