This is firstly a gratefulness post. Typically these year end submissions are goal oriented for the new year, full of hopes and dreams. I do have some new ones, and will be discussing what I’ve got in the works, but this year, I thought I’d share some things I’m grateful for instead and hope I don’t bore you too hard in the process, so here we go.

For all of the last five years, my eldest son has been sick and spent months at a time stuck to a hospital bed. This year, he spent no time...