April is the first FULL MONTH OF SPRING! Yahooooo!!! I honestly couldn’t be more relieved. Winter is generally a tough season for me personally, and it’s a long season in Chicagoland. Though April is often a toss-up here weather-wise, I welcome it, like Scott Stapp, with arms wide open. Longer days, spring flowers, and a glimpse of more pleasant days to come. With this in mind, it’s time to get goals for the month together and ready up that planner! I for serious dropped the ball in March with goal-setting and planning, but I don’t want to take up any time wallowing in it (other then the time it took to write this sentence). Instead, let’s dive into the lofty, ambitious goal setting.
I’m using this amazing Ink + Volt planner this year, and the prompts/space for goal setting have been incredibly helpful. And when I don’t like a prompt or just don’t feel like answering a question, I’ll just fill the space with whatever I want. Each month there’s a place to track a habit for the month too–I’ll come back to that in a different post.
So then, my goals for April 2019 are (da da da daaaaaa…):
Goal 1: Start my garden
I have kinda big plans for my garden this year, and so I need to basically get rolling with this as soon as possible. I’ll have to clean up my garden beds outside (hopefully they’re not too cold!) and get some compost added to it. I’ll also be starting the seeds for some of the pickier plants (e.g. tomatoes, peppers, etc) down in the basement so that they’re ready to transplant when the time comes!
Goal 2 & 3: Read some books
I set a year-long goal at the start of 2019 to read one book per month, and so far I’ve read through three. I’m near the end of Rob Bell’s What is the Bible, so I’m confident I’ll finish that as well another book (probably Thomas Lennon’s Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles) by the end of April!
Goal 4: Host brunch
Have I mentioned that I really look forward to spring each year? Another reason why is that one of my favorite “traditions” we have here at my house is Easter brunch, which we usually host the day before Easter (is it called “Easter Saturday”? I’m not sure). I’m getting hungry just thinking about it. It’s probably not terribly wise, but I like to experiment with different menus and breakfast recipes for this particular gathering, which mainly consists of our [very forgiving and patient] friends.
Goal 5: Make a Peeps-centric dessert or craft
I actually don’t always enjoy eating Peeps, but I usually can’t get over how cute they are, especially the chicks. The season for Peeps comes and goes so quickly, therefore I want to create something really fun with them this month.
Goal 6 & 7: Re-organize some rooms
This one is self-explanatory, but here it is for the sake of accountability! We got some Ikea shelves for this project already, so now we just need to discern what does and what doesn’t “spark joy” and generally stop being a couple of hoarders. 🙂
My sub-goal: To track my progress here for you guys to keep me honest! I’ll post about my successes (or epic fails!) as the days march on. What are your goals for April?