In June, I set three goals for the month.
They were:
- Scratch off at least two of these activities with Happy from the Summer of Intentionality List: for example- go to a ball game, fly a kite, pick berries, and/or play mini-golf. Mission accomplished! Though berry picking and going to a ball game had mother nature get in the way on the days they were planned, we picnicked, we hopscotched, we mini-golfed, we read 100 different books. It was good, good times.
- Read on the porch a couple times. Mission accomplished! And thankfully I did it before it got insufferably hot.
- Finish the book proposal I am currently working on so that it can be sent to possible publishers. Mission accomplished after 6 drafts that went back and forth between me and my agent from February until now. Hopefully, it will soon be on a publisher’s desk who just can’t wait to offer a contract. A girl can hope, right?
Now, for July’s goals:
- Knock out 10 small organizing projects (i.e.: jewelry box, kitchen junk drawer, storage shelves in garage, etc).
- Go stand-up paddle boarding.
- Host the neighbors for a meal.
Did you set some goals in June? How did they go? What are your July goals?
Stand-up paddle boarding??! I’m so impressed and inspired! Is his something you’ve done before? Sounds like such fun!!
xxxCate
Oh Cate, it is so fun. I’ve done it once before and hope to do it later this week. I LOVE surfing but am terrified of sharks (like can’t relax at all in the water as I am constantly searching for fins) and so stand up paddling (because I do it on freshwater) is a new way to love the sport without anxiety coming to play. You should totally try it
June’s goals:
– Gardening or delegate: done. Most of the work was done, and we just begin to also harvest broccoli and zuchini.
– Find diverse little activities that I can do while laying on the sofa: well, quite a lot! hereunder: write down memories, hear to music or a good radio program, look at the big trees balacing in the wind through my window, a little bit of abdominal work, plan New Year Eve’s menu (I’m not joking…), call friends or my parents.
– Find inner peace by accepting that I control quite nothing in my life: well, I guess this is a long-term process but I am finally on the right way.
Bonus: find my way to becoming more resilient: Thanks to you, I now consider being not as resilient as I want as information… Knowing that, I try to “fake it until I make it”. Of course Delight knows that I am not completely calmed down, but it is better to deal with a mom-wanting-to-calm-down than with a mom-in-volcanic-eruption. So she can use her resilience task, and through it I get the calm I need to find my inner peace again. Kind of resilience through complementarity…
July’s goal:
– more physical awareness, means: am I staying straight? am I sitting right? (its importance has just been reminded to me by backaches).
– find a good balance in my daily rythm, so that I can do what needs to be done, as well as what I would enjoy, within the limit of my current physical status.
– tackle our bedroom and tidy it up, ideally find ways to avoid cluttering it again. Let’s say: minimum 8 times 15 minutes.
Love these, Cecile. And it sounds like you are doing such a great job of taking care of you. Bravo! I loved hearing this update on resilience and actually have a page full of notes for a resilience post. I just need to put my fingers to the computer for it! I think it’ll be up next week. Now, I am dying to know about your New Year’s menu and what your celebration is typically like– who attends, what time do you dine, what happens after dinner, etc! And I am so with you on the clutter busting!
Oh, I’m so eager to read your post about resilience! Thank you so much that you took the time and worked on it!
For New Year Eve’s, we will be at home, our home! Something brand new for us, as we usually spend the holidays at our parents’ / -in-laws’. Well, the due date for the baby is 28th of December…. Anyhow, we will have to improvise a bit! My parents-in-law will come for Christmas, and my parents for New Year. I’d love to have more guests but with the upcoming birth, it would be too much….
In the ideal case that Baby would still not be born on New Year’s Eve, we could follow the plan: in the afternoon, we will have a hot chocolate or coffee while building a snowman (if there is snow! otherwise short walk in the neighbourhood). Afterwards, we will put our festive clothes (no cocktail dress however! Only something a little more dressed-up than usually), and begin with the evening. It will be a fish/mushroom-menu, beginning with “apéritif”, typical french part of a festive meal. Then lots of small dishes as a buffet, some of them classic, some more adventurous, like “frozen thuna-cream on ratatouille”. All are quick and easy to do, and some can be prepared ahead of time. I still don’t know exactly what I’d like as main dish, maybe a fish filet with mustard sauce or beurre blanc, let’s see. Then plate of cheese and green salad (typical French). For dessert I felt in love with a “rolled biscuit with rose-coloured sugar and blackcurrant mascarpone”…
We also prepare little sketches, and we will play them during the evening – for our family, about our family, a kind of little tailored-made comedy evening. I also plan a “digestive” break during the meal in order to have a short walk with laterns and songs, I think Delight will especially enjoy it. We probably won’t be the only ones outside. At midnight, Champagne, and good-luck-kiss under the hanging bust of misteltoe (French tradition). People outside will make fireworks (German tradition), and we’ll great each others.
What does your New Year Eve look like? Do you have favorite traditions?
Have a wonderful week-end!
Oh my goodness, Cecile. What a great New Year’s! I love how all of your cultures show up in it. Sadly, our New Year’s are nothing too exciting. We cook a nice dinner for the two of us after Happy goes down and then we’re in bed well before midnight. I usually try to stay up and wake BF up right before midnight for a New Year’s kiss. That is the end of our excitement, but you might be just the inspiration I need to create a more interesting new year!