January 2026

"In the winter's silence, January speaks: try again, begin anew." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

December 2025 burst in.

January 2026 exhaled.

You arrived quietly — almost cautiously — after December’s glitter and noise. The twinkle lights came down. The calendar flipped. The house felt bigger somehow. Slower.

You brought cold mornings and clean pages. Frost on the windows and possibility in the air. A return to routine. Early alarms. Resolutions whispered in the dark before the morning kicked in.

January was honest. There was no holiday sparkle to hide behind. Just discipline. Reflection. A deep breath and a decision: we began again.

For the Weavers, the month felt like equal parts reset and reality check. Back to school schedules, back to work rhythms, back to managing health and expectations and the quiet weight of “now what?” after a December that left us both grateful and exhausted.

It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t flashy. But it mattered.

Thirty-one days of steadying ourselves. Of finding our footing. Of learning what this new season might require of us.

Here’s how we started the year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Week 1: Jan 1-4 - Mom and Dad went to a wedding, Finn stayed home. We all travelled to Tabor to watch basketball, Jake made the honor roll, Jack spent a weekend with the sitter, and we had puppy class.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 2: Jan 5-11 - No school, Jack got castrated, Finn used his press pass at the high school, Mom and Dad celebrated 20 years of marriage, Zach Bryan dropped new music, there was basketball, and Jack.

from the archives!

  

 

 

 

Week 3: Jan 12-18: There was basketball, and Jack. He graduated from Puppy School this week!

 

Jake's mean mug made it on the KCAC app cover for Tabro games for the season!  Jump Scare when I first opened the app and saw it!  SO COOL!

 

Week 4: Jan 19-25: No school, Cornelius got an oil change, Grandpa turned 80, there was basketball, Finn went to Freshman Enrollment Orientation at the High School. a SNOW STORM, OKC Thunder game for the boys, no basketball, NO SCHOOL, closed in the house for days, introduced Jack to snow, taught him how to catch a ball,  Finn played in the snow, Dad had a heart attack, and Jake turned 19.  And Jack.  

 

 

 

Jack's first TikTok

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Week 5: Jan 26-31: HOSPITAL DAYS!  Everything was covered in snow.  The handyman and to get up on my roof to fix my dryer vent, I hired a man to clear the snow from our giant driveway so Britt could come home safely, Finn had a snow day play date, we finally started to thawout, there was basketball, I didn't get to bring him home, then I DID get to bring him home, and Jack - he got a haircut!

  

 

AND THEN! We snuck away for a quick second.  Dad's heart needed it.  TABOR WON!

 

 

 

January started out slow and easy and ended in a CRASH!

Here is a link to all of the hospital posts: BRITT'S HEART ATTACK

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Books and January - did not mix.

"The Last Father Daughter Dance - A Short Story" by Lisa Wingate

"A Marriage of Lies Hides the Darkest Secrets" by Amanda McKinney
 

That's it.  That's all I read.  332 Pages.  Didn't like either book.

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