On what felt like the 99th working day of January 2023, I sat down to evaluate my journal entries from the thirty day period. I haven’t stored up a journaling behavior like this in over a 10 years. This time, I set the bar low—write a sentence about the working day and you can take into account it “done”—and I consider that is what produced the practice adhere this time. On some times I wrote only a couple of terms and on many others, sentences poured out of me.
Nowadays I’m sharing a glance back again at my thirty day period. Here’s what January 2023 was like for me…
On the 1st of January, I determine 2023 is the year I want to doc my day-to-working day in a a lot more in depth way. I want to be a superior historian of my personal lifetime. I start trying to keep a digital journal (working with the Day 1 app) that lets me to both of those create and add photos.
On January 2, I generate in my journal that now feels like a examination. I’m currently being pulled back again into previous patterns of overthinking and averting. I discover this simply because all the things feels definitely weighty and tough. My head is loud, but I choose to continue to keep going ahead anyway (which takes place to be my mantra for 2023).
On the 3rd, I have a microneedling appointment. My deal with is purple for the remainder of the day.
On the fourth, we get a significant volume of snow. I try out to embrace the magic.
This is the month I announce that I’m shifting additional into the interior design and style house with information on Wit & Delight. I begin featuring consulting appointments. There’s so considerably guidance from our viewers, which feels incredible, although a feeling of impostor syndrome creeps up in any case.
This thirty day period, we go Bennett into her possess room. She claims the guest area for herself and is so happy with the improve.
We have relatives meals collectively at the dining table additional generally. I make tacos a single evening and the kids love them. They have not really liked anything at all I have cooked in a even though and it can make me so delighted.
In the center of the month, I start off possessing genuinely strange desires. I deal with various stress assaults. I begin reading the book Move, and it totally blows my mind.
Expending time with pals is a priority all thirty day period very long. For one such occasion, I make a genuinely good pearl onion tart that only needs 5 ingredients (the recipe is from French Country Cooking by Mimi Thorisson). I instantly know it is a little something I’ll make yet again and yet again. I also understand a single of the very best lifetime hacks: to make your salad dressing in an practically vacant jar of Dijon mustard.
This thirty day period I comprehend a single of the shades that seems excellent on me is bright environmentally friendly. I by no means anticipated this, but I wholeheartedly embrace it.
On January 20, Joe and I travel up north for a cabin weekend with good friends. We try to eat brined and braised pork shoulder with couscous, apricots, and fennel slaw. For dessert, we eat Basque cheesecake and drink fernet. We go antiquing and marvel at the critical nature of Lake Superior in the winter season.
On the 23rd, I can hardly get out of bed. After I finally do, I determine to bicycle for fifteen minutes. It turns into a forty-5-minute journey that modifications the trajectory of my working day.
I drink a good deal significantly less this month—only when at dinners with other people. I function out almost each individual one day in some potential. For me, this isn’t about doing the job out to adjust my human body it’s about doing work out to really feel superior emotionally. It feels really good.
On the 24th, I get my period of time and notice my irritable nature of late doesn’t suggest I’m an asshole—just hormonal. The next working day, I apologize for what I stated when I was dealing with PMS.
I’m writing this article at the end of the past total week of January. This weekend, I’m obtaining pals around for a raclette occasion. It looks like the best activity in the midst of a polar vortex! The sunshine is supposedly going to arise yet again in the coming days, which constantly feels like new beginnings to me. Here’s to a new start in February.
Kate is at the moment learning to play the Ukulele, considerably to the despair of her husband, young ones, and puppies. Follow her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.