Updates on Dreams and Goals for May 2023

 

ONE. Finish planning for our little birthday getaway. Plot twist! We were supposed to have taken that trip this past weekend, but we learned early in the month that Memorial Day weekend was the scheduled time for the annual garage sale in our community. Because we needed to have a sale to make room in our garage for our regular storage, we couldn’t afford to miss the community sale weekend. So we have postponed the vacation until sometime coming up this summer. As a result, I haven’t finished my planning. (Part of that is because we keep changing our destination.) The good news is I have about three partially planned trips on paper! 😊

TWO. Finish my writing project for my friend. Halfway done! As a reminder, I’m writing the story of my friend’s little baby boy who was stillborn earlier this year. I wrote the first half of the story at the beginning of the month, but several very unexpected and time-consuming things descended upon us this month, which made it difficult to get an uninterrupted chunk of time to complete the project. I don’t have an actual due date for this, but I do want to be timely about it, so I will try to fully complete it in June!

THREE. Plant flowers! Done! I did this early in the month and have loved watching them grow and blossom (literally) in the last few weeks. I’m excited to compare them at the one-month mark to the pictures I took the day of planting. It’s always fun to see how much they grow in that first month. We have thoroughly enjoyed the color and life they’ve brought to our house! And it’s been fun to hear friends walking by talk about how they enjoy them too!

FOUR. Work on a mini-garden plan. Done! My friend Julie came over with her resource book and personal knowledge and helped me make a plan, and then I did it! I planted the garden! I am sure I have much to learn over the long haul, but I am excited to see how it goes this year. The plants are taller and the seeds are sprouting, so it’s a fine start.

 

Other Updates:

·         As you know, we had TWO birthdays this month – Braeya’s and mine. We had a lot of fun celebrating both, and I appreciated the kindness of the Lord that we both had a chance to celebrate another year of life!

·         We had the opportunity to have some deep and vulnerable conversations with some friends of ours. The details of the story are not ours to share, but the conversations were so good. They also spurred on a lot of great conversation, prayer, and soul-searching in our home, too. We are NEVER done learning and growing in the Lord and NEVER done being available to Him for new seasons and adventures if He calls us to them. Even if the idea of something new might be uncomfortable, it’s so good to explore it in prayer and conversation, and we appreciated the chance to do that this month. SO many hours were spent devoted to this.

·         I enjoyed the chance to try something new this month and appreciated the door God opened for that. I’ll catch you up on more of it soon!

·         Ryan got a paddleboard for his birthday and has had the BEST time learning that skill. He says all the years of skiing, barefooting, and wakeboarding have helped him with the paddleboarding, and I love it that he can enjoy these little trips around the lake on the days the water cooperates!

·         I have my new planner all OFFICIALLY set up and ready to go for the month of June. I’m so excited!