December 2025

[jedimentat]

Christmas!



the children had a fantastic Christmas









some new Feastables for the Mr Beast-obsessed



Liberty got a violin, going to try new things



Christmas books







Went to the Farm and saw my parents and bro









Fallout's 'Ghoul Log' this year



Kirk did his annual Nutcracker Parade (the 5th Annual, actually)







"Carolling for Cans", Christmas caroler pals, collecting cans for Girl Scout food drive



Rum Chocolate Cherry Cake and a Buche du Noel





My dad and bro stopped by with a Christmas tree and the classic Ford Truck













Earlier in the month, making gingerbread with friends











Kingfox was in Vegas for work for a big conference and presentation



Sledding at Spruce Run School Hill and Round Valley Res

















Longest night



Christmas Market and Christmas Drone Show in Budd Lake











Hung out with family at Japantown in Brooklyn over Break













Mostly a lot of cleaning over Winter Break. it was very cold



Board games on NYE and Puzzle Fighter Tournament



Liberty

so much Pokemon-playing this month!








cookies Liberty baked in Cooking Club; both kids finished out the semester strong.



We began studying Art History, which is lovely





Kirk









Kirk worked very hard to film a history project



Friendly match up in North Jersey, with a trip to a Ukrainian Bakery afterwards



They progressed to orange belts in karate



Dogs

























Other



Things are expensive. Our usual dogfood is $60 for a large bag. Groceries always cost double what I anticipate.



Read lots of books this year. Two of my recent faves were "The Compound" and "This is Happiness", both were fantastic IMHO.



Watching 'Running Man', and lots of Love Island.

Diving into frivolous things is apparently one of my coping mechanisms...'Love Island' and other complete trash. Been pretty depressed and out of it since kingfox's diagnosis in November...my mind just goes 1 mile a minute and doesnt turn off and thinks about and plans for allllll of the things, and I couldn't really sleep for the past two months. Also used food to cope; I think I ate like eight bags of Creators cheese-and-caramel popcorn as a coping mechanism, like straight up just Whole-Foods-ed ordered them and ate one after the other. I had enough energy for homeschool and to make Christmas lovely for everyone but now that the distraction of Christmas is gone, it's not great. Self-care and sleep are destroyed and just not a priority right now. I know things are changing; I seriously felt a sort of sea-change coming back in September. His surgery is in 5 days and we don't have the results of the PET scan yet showing whether it's spread. I alternate between so many feelings and thoughts. It's all been a two month state of stressful limbo, other than the holiday. i'm grateful for a lovely holiday with my family and this cosy time. We announced it on social meds today even though i wanted to wait until after the scan results but kf wanted to, so pretty much whatever he wants. Just trying to take things as they come.