December 22, 2025 - Monday


I've made a bunch of Christmas cookies! I made treasure cookies, peanut butter blossoms, snickerdoodles, and magic bars, so far. I still plan to make Russian teacakes (I burned my entire batch today. So so so sad!!!), peppermint cookies, mint chocolate chip, and chocolate peppermint! 

We started our Christmas break today! While I am so relieved to not have anything on my agenda, I am still not getting out of the funk of not wanting to do anything. I find myself feeling bored and sad, but not willing to do too much. Ollie and I went on a date to Target today. She got Clem's birthday present and I finished getting the last of my stocking stuffers. It feels good to be done shopping, but I'm already sad about the Christmas season ending in a few days. Then I'll just have months of cold, dark, crappy weather ahead of me, with nothing to break the monotony. 

I took the kids over to Anne's for a visit today, which was nice. I got lots and lots of baby Millie snuggles. I got to hold her almost the whole time! Anne is doing okay, but it still entirely overwhelmed with life and isn't sure how to pare things down so that life can be a little bit more manageable. Praise the Lord that Millie is as healthy as she can be and is a pretty easy baby! We had a very nice time catching up though. I'm hoping we can get another visit in before school starts back up.

The evening was very chill. So glad we didn't have to go anywhere tonight!!! I did tell Jenny that we're going to visit that other HC in the new year. She and I were supposed to get together with Kamola on Wednesday evening, but Kamola got sick and had to back out. Surprisingly, Jenny still wanted to go with me! I was so excited and dinner was great. She handled the news well. I just don't know that this HC will make Ben feel any better than our current one, but I love him and can understand his pain. I just hope that God makes his will clear to us.

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