New Year Resolutions: Progress Report

I have decided to post progress reports to keep myself accountable for my New Year Resolutions. Here is the first.

Disclaimer: I have been struggling to get my nasty cough under control, and had a couple of limp days when I spent most of my time slumped on the sofa. This is my excuse for my less than stellar progress. Still, any progress is better than none. I hope!

Faith: Morning prayer, four days out of seven; evening prayer, six days out of seven. Do you see a pattern here? I'm not good at mornings. In the evening I am getting into the habit of saying the office when I get into bed. In theory, I intend to say it in the morning before I get out of bed. In practice I'm often still in too much of a sleepy blur. I think I need to rethink this.

Family: I only managed one-on-one read alouds once, but then there were only two days when we were home in the afternoon and on the second I was coughing too much to feel like reading. I have managed to reorganise our regular schedule so that it should start to happen next week. Tevye and I haven't organised anything for this month, but we have booked a romantic weekend away for February while the girls stay with Grandma.

Fitness: Non-starter. Too much coughing.

Formation: I'm nearly half way through my first science book, an account of how a group of Cambridge scientists first split the atom in 1932. I'll review the book when I've finished. So far, so good.

Fun: No scrapbooking done at all. It would have involved moving off the sofa.

Verdict: Could do better, but considering I wasn't at my brightest and best, it could have been worse!