We have had the most delightful weekend celebrating Will’s 37th birthday! Really, all the fun started on Monday, which was Halloween (Sing 2, anyone!?), followed by an evening at the Drive Shack for a double date with Emily and John, then Friday we went for a family hike and ate at Torchy’s Tacos with the whole family, and Saturday included a high ropes ziplining course near us and the NC State game! A lot of fun, and I absolutely sabbathed so hard today and took an almost 3 hour nap (hence the late night blogging!)

October was so good, and so full. It started out with me having Covid, and then getting better just in time for the kids fall break. We stayed home the whole time, I got to photograph a birth (!), and we planned a simple event every day of fall break to enjoy together. I think I’ll share our little staycation fall break soon - it really was sweet! But between Covid, fall break, and then Strep (Milly) and some weird 3 day fever virus for Benji last week, and another cold for me… I just put my head down and kept going.

I texted a friend tonight in response to her question “How are you?” and said (after a week of no sickness), “Thankfully we’ve been healthy and it feels like such a massive gift to be able to just do life. I’ve felt so behind on just normal things - cleaning out the garage, etc - it felt to fun to do that kind of house maintenance bc usually I’m sick or taking care of someone who is sick. We celebrated Will’s bday this weekend and just had a lot of fun and outside time which was so great!”

NOTHING makes me more grateful than being outside with our family, all healthy.

So here we are, November!

NOVEMBER GOALS

Blog twice ✌🏻 (one down, one to go!)
Try new budgeting Software with Will
Record all Podcasts for Nov and Dec of 2022
Q1 Planning and End of year celebration with Sammy Jo!
Schedule alllll the holiday things and put them in our calendars. Reservations and all.
Benji’s Baby book : Months 1-12 pages
Edit all 2022 photos through October
Complete Christmas Gameplan and go over it with Will! (Podcast coming soon!)
Get to the gym / workout outside at least twice every week

Here were my September / October goals. I don’t believe I completed one of them and I was very grateful to have read all of your kind comments from my last goals blogpost before realizing this! It made me smile and want to keep writing, instead of wanting to give up again. So thank you!

Blog once a week
Start our Christmas shopping list and budget
Choose 5 go-to fall outfits
Implement theme hours for my 1 work day (household, deep work, emails + communication, spiritual growth, etc)
Edit all 2022 photos through August
Benji’s baby book
Podcast content plan for Q4 2022 and Q1 2023
Write out a music project that’s been on my mind

Here’s to progress, getting outside, staying healthy, and planning all the holiday things!

November Goals 2022