Friday Fun: March Randoms

 

                At the end of 2025, Callie wrote this post as a structured round up to the year. I loved it so much that I earmarked it to revisit at the end of THIS year, but I actually decided to use it as a springboard for a monthly recap. I wrote posts for January and February, and now I’m back again for March!

                March was not our favorite month. We had a lot of hard things stack up in one single month – many more than you see here. Despite that, I am proud of us for powering through!

Best Personal Adventure: This feels hard to answer, because I don’t feel like I had any true fun, personal adventures this month. I held on for dear life and powered through. That feels more like survival than adventure to me. But I still need an answer so, I choose to talk about the booklet I created for those who begin attending our church. I rolled it out at our Welcome Lunch at the start of the month, and it was well received. I was proud of the hard work and creativity I put into it, so this is my pick for best personal adventure.

Best Adventure Together: This month was not fraught with fun dates, but we did successfully move both my parents (at separate times) into a new area of Swiss Village that better suits their needs in this season of their lives. It required a lot of decision-making and conversations among the family at large, and Ryan and I did the actual moving. Changes are never easy, and I was so grateful to get to do this together with him.

Worst Milestone: I ended my sixteen-year run of NOT getting stomach-flu-sick. Starting over. Almost a month sick-free.

Best Faith Grower: I teach a new Sunday School class at our church, and at the moment, it’s pretty small. I love that, because it gives opportunity for fantastic discussion. We started doing this course series from The Gospel Coalition, and I not only love personally studying it, but I love what we are learning together as a class. One of the first weeks, we ended up going down a side trail that led me to do this class through the Bible Project, and it was fascinating. (The class had asked me a question about the phrase “heavens and earth” from Genesis 1:1, and I took the class to understand depths of it that I couldn’t fully articulate.)

Best Lesson Learned: Consistency really does matter. At the start of the year, I took a year-long challenge to do ten push ups a day. Ryan and I talked about it at small group one night in early January, which led to me doing my push ups for that day in front of everyone. It was abysmal. Earlier this week I jokingly did them again in front of my friends, and they noticed I’m much faster now! Ten every day doesn’t feel like much, but I have gotten better in three months. (Next month I am focusing on form improvement.) If consistency matters in something as simple as this, what might it accomplish in bigger ways??

Best Purchase: I didn’t do a ton of shopping this month, but I am excited that I found some sleek little water shoes to wear at our baptism service next week. The water shoes I already own are very clunky – almost like hiking shoes. That works fine for playing in a state park, but it’s not a great fit for a baptism service. My new shoes are cute and dainty, and I’m excited about them.

Best Habit Created:  We didn’t do this every night, but we started eating by candlelight more often. I found some unscented beeswax candles that don’t interfere with the dinner aromas, and it’s really soothing and romantic to have dinner by candlelight!

Best New Recipe: This month was about making recipes I knew well…and a few fails thrown into the mix. But I think my new favorite was the Medicine Ball Tea I learned to make after having a version of it at the coffee shop when I was coming down with a cold. I drank it daily for a while and feel like it did help…plus it tasted good!

Worst Tradition: I still don’t love the time change, and if you’ve been reading here lo these many years, you might remember all the years I used to have a countdown on my blog to return to the time changing back. I’ve calmed down from that level of disdain (at least out loud) but I still don’t love it. I feel like the time change was the only tradition we had this month. Fitting for our March, right?

Best Little Luxury: It didn’t stay around consistently throughout the month, but we had enough spring show up that we were able to enjoy several days with the windows open! It was good to air out the house after all the germs – and welcome freshness at the same time.

Best Date: Okay so it might have been our ONLY date this month, but our first-day-of-spring outing to the smash burger place was really fun! It reminded me of that first year we were married and we kicked off spring by going to the root beer stand and out to the park for a date night.

Best Answer to Prayer: We have made it (almost, anyway) through the month. All the sickness, all the moving, all the decisions, all the hard…and we’re still going. Praise the Lord!