We have a few days of March left, but this was the best time for me to post my monthly recap.

Spring and winter are still going back and forth, as they always do. Even though we’re past the first day of spring, we’re still having cold nights. I’ve been tempted to update our front planters, but thankfully I resisted.

Family

We enjoyed celebrating my husband’s birthday and Pi Day. We got Jesse moved into his new house, and he’s planning to have us all over for dinner soon. We got his fairly new washer and dryer since his new house had stackable units in a closet. That entailed Jim having to put in an electrical line since our previous dryer was gas, but he did a great job.

We had a couple of lovely quiet weeks, with no appointments or activities. It was nice to catch our breath after the last couple of months.

Creating

I only made one card this month, this one for Jim’s birthday.

The “Happy Birthday” and drawing were on the Cricut–evidently people can submit their designs to the Cricut Design Space. This was one sent in by a user. The Cricut sends the drawing part to the computer and then cuts around it. The original card was just the size of the drawing, with the “Happy Birthday” in the white space. But I wanted it a little bigger. I was happy to find the “camping” scrapbook paper in my files.

Then Mittu and Jason (mostly Mittu, he said) drew this card for Jim, which I thought was so cute.

We didn’t know the other was going with a fishing theme, so it was fun to find out we both did.

Watching

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit was a nice film, even though it was in another language and we had to rely on subtitles. I didn’t know til the end that it was based on a book which was based on a true situation. Judith Kerr wrote the book for children, telling about her family’s experiences as refugees from Germany from her viewpoint as a child. The title comes from a beloved stuffed bunny she had to leave behind. Then she learned later that the Nazis took everything left in their house. I want to read the book itself some day.

While looking up the trailer on YouTube, I also found this video with Kerr talking about this book as well as another she was working on for children about widowhood.

Reading

Since last time I finished (titles link to my reviews):

• Be Skillful (Proverbs): God’s Guidebook to Wise Living by Warren Wiersbe.
• Proverbs for Life for Women compiled by Lila Empson. A little lightweight, but it had some good spots.
• Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life by Nick Vujicic, who was born without arms and legs. Very good, inspirational.
• Dandelion Summer by Lisa Wingate, fiction, audiobook. An unlikely friendship forms between a retired, conservative, curmudgeonly white man and a streetwise black teenage girl. Very good.
• It Had to Be You by Susan May Warren, fiction, audiobook. The second in Susan’s Christiansen family series. In this one. oldest sister Eden has been on the sidelines cheering everyone else’s accomplishments. But her dream of being a reporter hasn’t materialized: she’s stuck in the obits department. She clashes with Jace, her brother’s hockey team captain, for not being a better example. But she doesn’t know Jace has his own struggles between his health and what the team owners want from him.
• When I Fall in Love by Susan May Warren, fiction, audiobook, the third Christiansen family story. Middle sister Grace is a homebody who loves cooking and wants to go to culinary school one day. Her family surprises her with a cooking school vacation in Hawaii. Besides all the fears involved with that, she’s humiliated that they’ve arranged for their brother’s hockey teammate, who is going to the same school, to help her out. She doesn’t want him to “babysit” her. He doesn’t want to, either. But when they meet, they hit it off. However, he’s promised not to get involved with anyone due to a health issue he doesn’t want to discuss.

I also finished rereading Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making by Andrew Peterson. I immediately started reading it again after finishing it earlier this year.

I’m currently reading:

• Be Comforted (Isaiah): Feeling Secure in the Arms of God by Warren W. Wiersbe, nonfiction
• Isaiah for You by Tim Chester, nonfiction
• Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross: Experiencing the Passion and Power of Easter compiled by Nancy Guthrie, nonfiction, a reread
• Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes, fiction
• A Noble Scheme by Roseanna M. White, fiction, audiobook

Blogging

• Do You Have Access? The Old Testament emphasized how great a divide there was between the holy God and sinful people. But when Jesus died on the cross, the veil into the holiest part of the temple was torn in two, signifying that we can have access to God through Christ.
• The Power of Words. Some say we don’t need words to show love or share the gospel. We do need actions as well as words, but not instead of words.
• We Won’t Understand All, But We’ll Trust More. “I don’t know if we’ll ever understand all the mystery of God, even in heaven. But when we see Him, we’ll be ‘lost in wonder, love, and praise,’ as the hymn says. When we see Him, whatever doesn’t make sense to us here won’t matter. Our faith will be sight. Our trust will be perfect.”
• What Did Jesus’ Death on the Cross Accomplish? We know He died for our sins, and that’s huge. But His death accomplished a number of wonderful things.

We’re looking forward to Easter this weekend and my grandson Timothy’s birthday next month.

How was your March?