This year, along with my word of the year, I am focusing on a theme each month and creating goals around that theme. Similar to my happiness project last year, I hope to cumulatively build on the habits I create with each monthly theme. Every month I’m sharing my goals, along with a few wins and things that brought me joy from the previous month, since joy is the word I’m focusing on in 2019. In March I focused on health and wellness, while April’s focus is all about parenting.
{march wellness wins}
– Maintained my (at least) twice weekly yoga practice. It may not be much, but it’s a start, and as someone who formerly declared yoga to be “not my thing” I’ve come a long way. I’d like to increase my frequency, simply because I always feel so good during and after doing yoga, but at this point I’m just not sure how.
– Took a walk (outside when I could) at work at least twice a week and in general tried to find opportunities to move more. The second half of the month brought much improved weather, and when that was the case I found it easy to take walks outside both at home and at work. On cold days at work, I did try to walk around the building, although I admit that I still haven’t tried out our company workout room.
– Scheduled a physical and eye appointment for myself. I haven’t done either of these in years, so I am due!
– Increased my vegetable intake by including more vegetables in the meals I cook at home. I also made an effort to squeeze in more fruits and veggies at breakfast and lunch.
{what brought me joy in march}
– Read 6 books. Some really good ones too! Of course I’ll share more in my monthly reading recap.
– Continued to use a meal planning service, Sweet Peas Meals. I’ve mentioned it before, but I am so happy with this! I plan to share a review later next month.
– Took a trip with family to visit my alma mater, Kansas State. I went on a college visit with a close family member and it was so fun to see how much the university has changed and the city has grown!
– Visited the Kansas City Zoo on a nice day. Hallelujah for perfect spring weather on a Saturday!
– Survived a solo parenting weekend. Aaron went away for a guys weekend this month, and while I’m perfectly capable of taking care of our kids alone, it is exhausting. The zoo trip that same weekend helped.
– Started doing “dinner in” date nights every other week with Aaron. We started setting aside Wednesday nights to spend time together, and every other week we make a special dinner to eat after the kids go to bed. It’s been fun to spend the time cooking together, and also enjoying some uninterrupted conversation while we eat.
– Got a pedicure. Such a great way to begin spring!
{april goals}
– Attend the parenting class offered by Violet’s daycare. They are offering a free weekly class on conscious discipline. We missed the first class but hope to go to the rest–we need all the help we can get with Violet right now.
– Read a parenting book.
– Get on the same page with Aaron about parenting strategies for Violet. I’ve said all along that she is such a different kid from Jona, so what worked for him when he was Violet’s age are not working with her. She has been a challenge lately (to say the least) so we need to find some strategies before we lose our minds.
– Get Violet (mostly) potty trained. I had planned to wait a bit longer to potty train (she’s not even two and a half yet) but in her class at daycare a lot of kids are working on it, and her teachers wanted to try with her if we were okay with it. Well, I wasn’t going to deny potty-training help so we’ve been trying at home too. She’s been doing better than I thought she would, but we still have a ways to go.
– Get more involved with Jona’s school. I don’t have a lot of free time, but I would like to do more volunteering at Jona’s school when I can. (Violet’s too, but one thing at a time.)
– Plan some one-on-one time with each kid.
What are your goals for this month?
