The shortest day of the year was yesterday, and I took Heidi and Jack for a walk in the dog park.  It was beautiful, at least I thought so, Jack bitched and moaned and complained for most of the walk.  When we were almost back to the car, I asked him if he'd had a good walk.  He said he had.  

My brother and his wife are visiting their daughter and future son in law for a few days.  My neice and her soon to be husband live a five minute walk from us, which in theory means that we could visit more often, but in reality, she has two jobs and her boyfriend works long hours.  I didn't know they were engaged, so I found out that, and then we were invited to their wedding in November.  I haven't been invited to a wedding in a long time, other than my own, and I'm looking forward to it.

Katie had another psychiatrist appointment on Friday and I decided, to reduce the new antipsychotic drug by half.  The doc was okay with that, we'll wait and see if that helps, or not.  I also told him that Katie is now taking CBD gummies once daily, and that seemed to have helped her, a lot.  As her primary caregiver said, "We have our Katie back."

During the discussion, I told the doc that I had tested the CBD gummy on myself first, before giving it to Katie.  I told the doc that it made it quiet inside my head, which surprised him.  I also told him that Katie's sister also takes CBD oil for her own anxiety sometimes, and it helps her.  

So Katie is relaxed, not zoned out, and she's happy again.  I'm so thankful for that.

Otherwise, not much going on here.  I wrapped all the gifts this afternoon, there aren't a lot of them, and they're under the tree.  Jack went to see Santa last Wednesday and there has been a lot of discussion in our house with regards to whether or not Santa is real.  One of the older boys at daycare told Jack that Santa is not real.  When Jack saw Santa, Jack was wearing his Lego shirt from something we went to last summer.  Jack sat on Santa's lap and Santa said to him, "I bet you want Lego for Christmas."  

Jack was in awe that Santa knew him that well and agreed that he did indeed want Lego for Christmas from Santa.

I have one more day of work, tomorrow, and I don't know if I'll be going back in the New Year.  I think it's time to move on, but it's hard to give up people that I love, my work family.  We'll see.

Merry Christmas everyone!