Updates on Dreams and Goals from May

This month has felt strange to me – probably because Memorial Day came a whole week before the end of May! It has been a full and busy month for us, and today I want to look back over how my dreams and goals went!

Plant flowers and our garden. Done! Ryan and I spent our May monthiversary going to the greenhouse to purchase the plants, and then the weather prevented me planting them for another week or so. I worried they would fizzle out waiting to get into the ground, but they didn’t! The flowers are filling out in their pots, and I’m starting to see some little signs of life from the plants I put in from seed!

Move into my new office. Done! Oh, how I loved moving into my church office! It really came together so beautifully, and I am excited to have a spot to work in there now. It was fun to get to share it with church friends when they came through for the tour.

Ponder (or more?) my education. I’m SO excited for all that happened in this department this month. I applied and was accepted to a master’s program. I’ll be pursuing a Master of Divinity through Grace Theological Seminary’s Deploy program. It’s daunting and wonderful all at the same time.

Catch up the scrapbooks. This was hard work! April and May were BUSY month with so much happening. We had birthdays and holidays and church moves and house projects and all kinds of things. For a while, I thought I would not catch up, both from the volume of things TO document and the lack of time to do it, but I got nearly there!

Finish well in the things that wrap up this month. I sure did my best! I finished teaching the 7-week Sunday School elective, and I just loved everything about that experience. I finished the semester of GriefShare I’d helped lead, and I finished my spring speaking. I learned a lot about my limitations during this time, and I am grateful for each experience.

Other adventures…

Ryan and I went on some fun little dates…ice cream, thrifting, new-to-us restaurants. I’m glad we were able to make time for us in all the busyness.

We got through Lexi’s mysterious illness that set her back for about a week. It was so strange. We never did fully figure out what happened to her, but we sure are happy to see her back to her old self.

Celebrated Mother’s Day with Mom. She came to our church, and then we took dessert to their apartment that evening to eat with them!

Attended our niece’s baby shower. She will be welcoming her first child next month!

May was a good month. Here’s to a sweet June!