December 2025

inside my Currently Workbook!

Let’s process December!

Here are my pages from my Currently Workbook for December.

You can watch them unfold in this video below.

For my spread, I used a combination of colored pencils, sharpie paint pens, and a white gelly roll pen.

(You can see my favorite journaling supplies on Amazon here)

All the good things.

CURRENTLY DECEMBER!

All my tiny little joys for December:

I track a daily Tiny Little Joy thanks to The Joy Reset in my Hobonichi cousin planner in the monthly calendar.

Let’s get into it!

Other than being sick the last two weeks of December (sad face!), I was inspired by a craft night at MC’s! She made dinner, and we crafted with our friend Neiley.

Hooray for beautiful messes!

It rained a lot this month, which helped me do some good nesting. I got in the holiday spirit around the house.

My mantle included ornaments from my childhood. It’s how I keep my Mom’s spirit alive :)

I added the words LOVE and JOY to my tree this year. Big big fan of that. I will probably do more of that next year. They’re all gold glitter!

Got an amazing care package from Kathleen!!! It was such a nice surprise. I feel so grateful to have such nice readers :)

We spent a lot of time driving to/from Idaho to visit family this month. We were all together to celebrate my father-in-law’s 80th birthday and to be together during the anniversary of my brother-in-law’s death.

We had a very mellow holiday season. Having the flu made us all slow down and rest. It rained A LOT. I am grateful we were able to spend so much quality time together as a family.

• Snow Piercer

• Good Hang with Amy Poehler

• Four Christmases

• A Christmas Story

• Charlie Brown Christmas

• Premonition

• Always Sunny in PA

• Mud

• Stranger Things

• Nora Ephron documentary on Youtube

• The Offer

• The “Tao of Leadership

• Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much (my Mom’s book)

• astrology

• Reddit

• ChatGPT

• Thriving as an Empath

• Old planners + currently workbooks

• SUBSTACK!

• A Year of Practice

pages from my Hobonichi cousin for I LOVE LISTS this month:

I added some new songs to the mix this December:

This one was my vocal stim all month:

Two new recipes this month on my food/lifestyle blog, Shutterbean.

Cranberry Orange Cobbler

Cinnamon Sugar Roasted Almonds

I also made Turmeric Toddies (no booze)

Pumpkin Oat Cups - made their way into the rotation.

I tried a Honey Salmon Bites recipe (must tweak it!) with my cucumber sesame salad.

We cooked up the unagi we had in the freezer and made poke bowls.

We had all-you-can-eat sushi in Reno, and my child CLEANED HOUSE.

Casey has been learning how to make risotto (lucky me!!) This was a lemon shrimp risotto.

This is a very yummy mushroom risotto (my fave!).

Casey made us a crab & shrimp risotto on Christmas Day. I had to skip out on family dim sum because of the flu :(

I went through a chicken cutlet phase. Here it is as Chicken Parm.

I also bought a jar of blue cheese dressing that I put on all my salads this month.

• my health/my immune system

• my family

• my art practice

• support from strangers online

Fun in photobooths!

Thank you for joining me on this Currently workbook adventure. Get yours in my Etsy shop! If you’re an international friend, you can pick one up through Blurb.

I wish you a wonderful January with lots of love.