Reviewing progress on my March intentions, and setting my intentions for April.

Daily Routines: I’m still doing the Lectio365 app each morning. I overhauled my weekday breakfasts and lunches to include more protein. Generally, for breakfast, this looked like either overnight oats and porridge in the steam oven with chia seeds, hemp seeds, almond butter, a touch of maple syrup and cinnamon with grated apple or banana and yoghurt. Lunches were usually grain bowls with loads of veggies and lentils, beans or eggs. I’ve found the trick to this is to always make sure I have the ingredients on hand and ready to go. I do want to work out some more breakfasts that don’t lean so heavily on yoghurt for protein because I think the increased dairy is not sitting that well with me. In April, I would like to add in five minutes of intercessory/listening prayer after doing the Lectio365 devotion each morning.

Three Times a Week is a Habit: My habits are blogging, gardening and photography, and I did pretty well on all of these. The gardening took a bit of a hit because we were away for two weekends. I’ll keep going with these.

Read 52 Books: I finished five books this month, which makes 15 for the year, so I’m two books ahead of schedule.

Travel: We had a long weekend at my parent’s place at Point Lonsdale. We also went to Wilson’s Promontory for three nights. Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, with Day 4 still to come. That ticks off another Victorian National Park. This month we will spend Easter at Point Lonsdale.

Home: We finally got our curtains installed this month. I finished organising the kitchen drawers and cupboards. On the last day of March, the family photos were spread all over the study floor, waiting to get Hubbie’s input on what to put where. We have since made the decisions, and they are in the hallway waiting to be taken to the framer. In April, we will do this and hopefully be able to book the guy to come and hang everything.

In the garden, I started winter seedlings and got plants to fill in the last few gaps. I also planted some seeds in the garden beds, but we had some crazy hot weather, and they haven’t sprouted. In April, I will plant all the winter seeds and seedlings in the garden beds.

Photography: I continued my garden photography project but still need to post it here. I finished the Sydney photobook and received this and the Tasmania book in the mail. I also uploaded and backed up January and February photos. This month I’m working on my son’s primary school album which is a big project.

Round the Neighbourhood: My goal to run or walk all the streets is coming along nicely. Below are the suburbs I’ve progressed this month with the change on each.

• Brighton: 122 of 276 streets ⬆️ 17, 43.88% ⬆️ 5.84%
• Elwood: 49 of 94 ⬆️ 20, 48.94% ⬆️ 18.08%

Sustainability: I made the price comparison on Returnr and have been using this service and the local bulk food store, so I have had less packaging this month. I’ll continue these this month.

Run: I only ran 123km this month, which was disappointing, but I had a weekend taken out by vaccine side effects, and I haven’t felt great since, ending up with a migraine last week. We’ll see how it goes this month. I’ve pushed my target race back to the Gold Coast Marathon, which will give me twelve weeks of lead-up starting next week. I need to rewrite my training plan.

Entertain: Because we were away a couple of weekends, we didn’t have people over as much. We are still having small group here every second week. I want to organise a get-together with my school friends.

Dentist: I saw a dentist in March that I can walk to. The good news is that I only needed a regular clean, and everything looks good.

I also got my haircut (I just squeaked that in at the end of the month) but haven’t done anything about POA and wills. These still need doing.