My Year in Review (in pictures): 2025

Yeah, me too, kid.  Me too.

 Hello everybody. Merry Christmas (to those who celebrate in the Scandinavian tradition) and I hope you all have a Merry Christmas tomorrow for everyone else.

I know it has been months and months since you saw a post from me.  Life has been...life...this year and we've just been getting through on survival mode around here.  Severe autism and puberty is really rough.  On the individual (in this case, Alvah, or Casper the grumpy ghost up there) and on the rest of the household.  Between that and other stuff that has gone on...blogging has been the LAST thing on my mind just because it took time (big, big one) and mental energy to form sentences, which has been kind of in short supply this year.

Alvah has improved slightly, I think, the last bit.  I tried some new products that seem like they are working to help him a bit.  I'll try and write the reviews on those here pretty soon as I think it is important to get honest reviews out for others to read as it seems like so many products are just fake reviews by bots or the companies block or delete comments that don't talk about how wonderful they are (not saying these products do...I haven't tried to write reviews on their sites or on social media about it, though, in case of this as I don't have time to waste on stuff that is going to just get blocked).

I didn't do a bunch of blog posts this year, but I did remember to do one thing.  I took a bunch of pictures (in the hopes I would get blogging done).  So, I figured I might as well do my year in review in a different way this year and just deluge you with blog posts complete with pictures.  The posts will probably not be very wordy (time and energy again), but will get you guys up to date on everything that has gone on this year...good and bad.  

To save time I'm just not bothering to do much editing of photos at all, so the photos are going to be bigger than normal and basically as is.  So, if you don't see "pretty" photos, just take into consideration that this is life and I'm living it hard right now and don't have 20 minutes or more to edit a photo to post to the blog right now.

Right, back to getting some of those posts done.  Merry Christmas, everyone!  May this holiday be good (I've been praying all month for just that).  Hope you are all doing well!

Erika