It’s really hard to imagine that as I’m writing this post we’ve now lived in New York City for 18-months. On one hand, it feels like we’ve lived here for years on the other I can still feel getting off the plane and walking to my first day of work at Citi. If 2018 was the year of the move, this has been the year of settling in. We’ve both had great years in our careers, we’ve laid a foundation here in New York, and we now have a companion to experience it all with, Frasier our 10-month old Labradoodle.

Where do I even begin? I started last year with so much hope. I was in a new job, and I was starting to finally feel a little bit more settled in our new home – New York City. I tell Joel this all the time, but living here is like living in a dream. Sometimes I feel like I’m living in a snow globe, and someone else is watching me live this extraordinary and imaginary life. It makes me so much more cognizant of how precious and fleeting life truly is.

It’s that time of year again! Jenn and I have spent time independently looking back at the year that was and talking about some of our favorite things from 2018. From TV shows to vacation stops, to memories, we’ve written down our favorites from 2018, and here they are!

One of my goals in 2019 was to eat at a dozen Michelin star restaurants in the year. We hit that goal and thought it would be fun to rank the places we ate at from #12 to #1. We did these rankings completely separate from each other but our lists are close to identical. My one takeaway though from these extraordinary meals was watching chefs at the top of their games, doing something better than almost anyone in the world and we had a seat at the table to take it in, enjoy a glass of wine, and enjoy their art. I feel insanely privileged to have been able to experience the amazing culinary adventures that we did in 2019.

Each year Jenn and I compile a list ranking the TV we watched over that past year. This year we just watched more TV than any other year. Part of that is that we stayed home more both because of Frasier and we traveled less in 2019. The good news is it was a phenomenal year for TV and I can speak for both Jenn and I when I say that ranking this year was harder than ever.

Each year when I sit down to write my year-in-review it is as much about looking back as it about looking ahead. Of any year I’ve written one of these years-in-review, 2018 is a year that I want to make sure I capture, because it was a time of incredible travel, major milestones, small simple moments and tremendous life altering change. And so without further ado I give you our 2018 year in review.