State of Things at Volante

It seems that more of my life is measured by these updates and blog posts than I originally thought possible.

I’ve been a little bit out of the public eye for the last few months — I haven’t been at cons, even the ones I’d most like to do, and I won’t be going to any more this year either.

The biggest news in a long time has arrived, and it’s personal news that I’ve been feeling a little protective over. Perhaps it will be big for Volante Design, but I hope not. I think it’ll probably rock David and my worlds, but I hope that despite our absence the business and community can keep cooking along. Enough preamble!

We’re having identical twin boys! This is a long awaited new phase in our lives! Like so many families we got scared by the pandemic and unlike most families we had the monumental work of keeping our little business alive and thriving. While the world is by no means fixed, we feel like we’ve got room to try something new, and boy are we going for something big!

It's a little more than we bargained for, I won’t lie. It’s pushing us to take lots of steps we might not have taken RIGHT AWAY, but it's also the most fun. The idea of having two matching hooligans makes me smile even when I’m running to throw up something perfectly innocuous that I liked yesterday. I am already pretty in love. It’s also pretty scary. There is so much newness and so much I don’t yet know how to do or handle. But I am growing (literally and physically) to meet the challenge. If you aren’t doing something that excites you and scares you a little, I believe you’re missing out on life!

Before you ask the question I’ve come to expect: no, twins don't run in our family, no, we don't currently have plans for a line of baby clothes, and yes all the goofy twin jokes are welcome.

I’m due in February, but the thing with twins is… they’re usually early and way harder to predict, because of course they are! Of course we’d be doing it in double time, in hard mode.

Everyone we tell seems to have a similar reaction, “you would.”

I guess we would. I love that we would.

Here we go! A brand new adventure has already begun!

Thanks for being part of our lives in whatever way you’ve been here. It means a lot.

On a Production Note...

To say that the world of supplies and availability has turned on its head is an understatement. While we've done pretty well moving around our schedule to make things work out, most other folks we work with are backed up, delayed, or downright frantic. All that goes to say that we're working to make all the things work.