March is that lovely transitional month that has both lovely snowfalls and gentle spring days. Jeff and I got to make up for our missed dates by celebrating a half day of shopping and dinner out and later in the month, dinner out and hearing an orchestra. I enjoyed two different women’s events this month. I got to hear my mom speak at her local women’s group, then I attended my local one with a few friends. The boys and I had a field trip to an art museum. We also visited some friends and family where we used to live. We instituted family walks several evenings a week to spend time together and encourage a healthy habit. We met my family for dinner one evening and visited some other family in their home. It turned out to be a great month.
Date Night 
March Backyard Visitors 
Meet-up with my Sister 
Some of the grandkids with Memaw and Papaw
As you know, my word for the year is Eternity. You can read more about what’s behind it here. In short, I have three sets of goals for this year. My PERSONAL goals are going well. I worked on each of them steadily and made progress on each one.
My PEOPLE goals are in three areas reminding me of keeping an Eternity perspective:
HOMEMAKING – Creating a Reflection of Heaven Here on Earth
HOSPITALITY – Impacting Others for Heaven
HOMESCHOOLING – Preparing my own Disciples for Heaven
My HOMEMAKING goal was to update our clothing. The boys are all growing fast so I had to purchase some new things and get some alterations done. I cleared out the winter clothing and pulled out the brighter colors and thinner fabrics.
We did a bit more HOSPITALITY this month than last. The kids had friends over one Wednesday night after church. We had family over for a pizza party and some guests for dinner as well.
HOMESCHOOLING went well for March. We can see the finish line in a few subjects. We learned about World War I, other skirmishes around the world during that time and the economic boom then collapse known as the Great Depression in the following decades. Jeffery is still concentrating on Government and Geometry with some Biblical Worldview classes and working 2 full days a week. All of the boys had to double up helping at work in preparation for a week’s vacation in April. This is a wonderful real-life schooling opportunity for us.
My PRINT goals, as I mentioned in my word of the year post, include this blog, another writing project I’m working on (may share when it’s finished) and what I’m reading.
In case you missed them, here is the post (besides this one) from the blog in March:
Is Organized a Destination?
Devotional Reading: I’m continuing my reading through the New Testament as well as 3 Psalms each Sunday. I finished 42 Seconds: The Jesus Model for Everyday Interactions by Carl Medearis and Fervent: A Woman’s Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer by Priscilla Shirer.
We must never allow the authority of books, institutions or leaders to replace the authority of knowing Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious view of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.
-Brennan Manning, as quoted in 42 Seconds by Carl Medearis
Focus protects your goals and dreams from being consumed in small bites, stolen right out from under your nose in twenty-minute segments of compromise.
-Priscilla Shirer in Fervent
Biography/Memoir: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
-Indian writer, Jiddu Krishnamurti, as quoted in The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
Business: The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg
You can’t go two directions at once. Trying to be successful with making money as your goal is like trying to travel a superhighway at seventy miles an hour with your eyes glued to the rearview mirror.
-Pindar from Bob Burg’s Go-Giver
Theology of Biblical Womenhood: No Little Women: Equipping All Women in the Household of God by Aimee Byrd
Theology is the knowledge of how to live in the presence of God.
-Adapted and quoted by Aimee Byrd in No Little Women
Health: Fast. Feast. Repeat. by Gin Stephens
Fiction: A Stranger’s Game by Colleen Coble and The US Marshals Series by Lisa Harris
Inspiration for March:
Quote for Eternity:
The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
C.S. Lewis, as quoted in the Pour Over newsletter