At the end of February, I was writing in all of our activities on the calendar for March and whining that our days are just too full: we rarely get to all sit down for dinner together and we hardly have an evening to just hang out at home. Careful what you pray for! After managing to keep ourselves healthy all winter, we all somehow caught Influenza A and it would not go away for a solid two weeks. And now with coronavirus becoming a real problem, schools and church activities and extra-curriculars are all cancelled. Suddenly, I’m staring at two weeks (or more!) of wide open days at home. In a time of great uncertainty, I’m choosing to see this as a gift.
Also: because of that pesky flu, the first two weeks of March were a complete wash and I got none of my intentions list accomplished. Hoping to play catch-up on those annnnd I added a bunch more because I can’t help myself.
INTENTIONS FOR THE END OF MARCH
- have the kids involved in making dinner each night
- get back to my 20th Century in Literature Challenge and read two books that fit
- buy and lay down landscape fabric
- purchase everything needed for “Mel’s Mix” and fill the raised beds
- start buying things for Easter baskets
- mail back ThredUp bag
- buy new sandals for Sophie
- gather supplies to make a framed chalkboard (100LT #17)
- try a new bread recipe
- give the little boys haircuts
- March 2020 Giving donation to the local food bank
- try to propagate my Christmas cactus again
PREVIOUS INTENTIONS
If you’re reading in a blog reader, be sure to click over to see what I checked off the list!
- continue a new routine of making bread daily
- find a few new ways to reduce our food budget (not exactly how I envisioned it, but having the flu really helps the budget – no one ate anything but toast for days!)
- say the Stations of the Cross with the kids
- attend a holy hour
work on building raised beds(Mark surprised me by knocking this out last weekend)- start looking at compost options
- get dead trees removed by the driveway
- reorganize all of my Poshmark inventory
- create a better hand-me-down clothing system (reuse old plastic totes if possible)
- get photos printed for a special project
- deal with Sophie’s duvet
- get an estimate for Sophie’s bathroom
start a phenology wheel(I wanted to use this project as a way to intentionally notice nature changing around me and it’s working! so fun)- read at least 20 pages of The Art of Learning Nature’s Signs
Ugh coronavirus… since today I'm working from home and sunday masses have been cancelled. I'm ready for it to be over and it has just started
Same here. My husband is working 100% remote and everything has been shut down for at least two weeks. Closing public masses has hurt the most!