Living where we do, we had to make some of our fun. This area is no Toronto. We played a lot of cards, poker, and Codenames. The offspring decorated a gingerbread house. We visited Lititz and the Green Dragon, and the adventurous ones went off for a day of snowboarding. On a quiet day after some had already departed for home, we sat around the table and drafted up some 2026 bingo cards.
What I noticed after the fact is that most of my squares are either year-long projects, like "blog once a month" or projects that take a while to plan, like "have a garage sale."
Read two books a month. Kinda cheated on this one already. In January I finished one I started in December and then read three more... in January. In February... none finished but I have three I'm working on. I blame it on 28-days.
Mail something every month, from me not Amazon. I want to write more in general which is why I have blogging, mailing, and drafting a story on three different squares. I had an idea for a story, but now I kind of hate it. Good thing I have a year... 10 months... to figure it out.
Plant a garden. Our awesome kids gifted me an amazing wheelbarrow and a full set of gardening gear and seeds before they left for home. If only we didn't live in a land of perpetual winter. I told Ian that we've lived in our house for 5 months and 12 of those months have been winter. It needs to stop. So I've taken to rescuing succulents from the bargain trays at Lowe's, and repotting them into their own little pots. And rinsing all the dirt off the roots of the peace lily my parents sent as a housewarming gift... and popping it into the fish tank. And growing a potato in water like a kid doing a science experiment. And trying to grow a lemon tree and avocado tree from seeds... We have three plots marked out in the the yard, I just need it to not be freezing and/or covered in a foot of snow.
Do something creative every month. This is left open to interpretation. I did something kind of creative in January, absolutely creative in February, and have no idea what March will be.
And so it goes for the other 18 squares.
