I have had my hands full so far this year. January was punctuated with sickness, and rehearsals started. Did I tell you that I am in The Sound of Music? Our local community theater group is performing it in April, and I am Mother Abbess. I am really excited. My youngest is also in it, as part of the ensemble. My middle child decided she wanted to help and she is part of the crew.
Both of the girls have had surgery to correct their toe walking. It is an outpatient procedure, but takes six weeks in walking casts, then a couple of weeks in air casts. But once it's done, it should be done. We have physical therapy to do, but everything so far is working. The youngest had her surgery at the end of January and the middle child had hers this week.
On to goals! Because of this first quarter being full of everything else, I honestly have not made much progress on my goals for the year.
Read 52 books. I finished 4 so far. I have finished:
The Sherwood Ring, Elizabeth Marie Pope
Shadow of Sacrifice, Michael Webb
Jasper and the Riddle of Riley's Mine, Caroline Rose Starr
Rob Roy, Walter Scott
I finally finished Rob Roy! That was indeed a triumph. It moved really well in the last 30-40 pages, but it was a long, slow set up. It was a good story, but just took a while to really get going.
This week, while my older daughter is convalescing at my in-laws' house and I am with her, I am attempting to finish a few other books. We will see how that goes. I finished a few craft projects, as I can focus better on those than a book at night. I have been in to embroidery and cross stitch recently. I finished the piece in the first picture, Just One More Chapter, and an Easter stitch-a-long in the picture below.
I am not sure why Blogger keeps turning my photos. Sigh.
Declutter and organize each room twice. I am really behind on this one. I have done a few things here and there, but the living room is mostly done. The second room to get attention is the girls' room. I have not spent as much time in there as I would have liked, but I have managed to get in front of the armoire cleared and the armoire holds only clothes they can wear. As it is March already, I should be on to the third room, my son's, but I have not finished the girls' room yet. I barely made a dent in it. His room is actually one of the better rooms, but I don't want to neglect it. This is where establishing habits is important and also where I fail.
Walk daily more often than not. This goal is also suffering. I managed to walk once for about 25 minutes on a random day. I had to take the car in to a shop for service, and the shop was really close to our house. I thought about calling a friend to pick me up, but realized that by the time whoever got to me, I could have walked home. So I did. It was a good walk, and took me longer than it should have but I wasn't trying to race. I had my earbuds with me, stopped and put them in, and then continued home. It was mostly uphill, so I had to take it slow. I still want to make progress on this one. Something that has helped my activity is rehearsals. We're walking and singing and being active for a couple of hours twice a week. That counts, right?
