January is not my favorite month of the year. It's cold. It's dark. The holidays are over. Spencer was diagnosed with leukemia in January, so there's a bit of PTSD I still deal with every year. And, in general, I experience all sorts of restless feelings this time each year. So I donate blood every January. It's definitely become an annual tradition now and it gives me a sense of purpose/giving back in amongst all the angsty feelings.
I also try to stay very busy. That also helps.All in one week in January, I cleaned out the pantry, put away the Christmas stuff, hosted
book group, donated blood, cleaned the house, made a menu, and started
going ham on creating the Come Follow Me activity sheets for the upcoming year. Staying busy
is good for my mental state.
I also finally got all the Christmas Eve pajama photos compiled into one collage, which made me super happy. When you've got kids all over the country, these kinds of things can take a while! So I mentioned above that I've started creating the Come, Follow Me activity sheets again for this upcoming year. I discovered the use of AI for creating coloring sheets and it's been a fun resource for me. I'd been using CHATGPT for creating them and they would turn out like this. Pretty good. Sometimes with some weird stuff in it, because it's AI, but not terrible in my opinion.
January has also been quite the adventure for getting to know the new members of our BYU ward. It's a little harder than we expected, because while it was only a fraction of the people than it was in September, it seems like the expectation is higher to learn the names more quickly. I am still working hard to get there, but I'm realizing that my brain still needs to meet people a few times before names/faces are really stuck in my brain well!
And how did we finish my least favorite month off?
WITH A TRIP TO RHODE ISLAND TO VISIT SOME OF MY FAVORITE PEEPS!!!!
Stay tuned for that blogpost coming soon....


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