While the world stays home, this might seem like a tough time to practice your photography skills. So many photo projects involve traveling, beautiful scenery, or portraits of people. There are so many things to photograph all around us though and this is a great time to get creative with your camera or phone.

I’m ready to share my March 2020 roundup page and show you how I used the new supplies I posted about this morning.

More than ever before, I’m grateful for my routine of rounding up the month. Although I have to admit that this one is going to be a doozy! I’m going to use the resources I posted about yesterday to help me recap the news.

I usually love the month of March because it’s my birthday and wedding anniversary month as well as the start of spring. This year March brought a lot of terrible news as well. Nothing like a worldwide pandemic to scare us all!

I’m going to post my regular March roundup prompts tomorrow, but I feel like we all need some extra resources for recapping what is going on in our world right now. This is definitely the most difficult topic I’ve ever posted about and I’ve struggled with this for the past few weeks. I’ve always been an advocate of including the good and the bad in our stories, but this is just soooo bad on so many levels. It’s up to you how much you want to include in your personal documenting, but I would encourage you to at least include a few details. This will be one of the most historic and memorable times of our lives and it is worth including in our journals, scrapbooks, blog or social media posts. It’s also an opportunity to reflect on the things that are positive as well.

On top of the global pandemic we are all living through, we woke up to a 5.7 magnitude earthquake last Wednesday (March 18, 2020). We’ve had more than 200 aftershocks since then but we’ve only felt a few of those. I know my California readers are probably used to this, but it was quite a surprise for us and probably felt a bit more dramatic seeing as how we are all already on edge with everything else that is happening.

I absolutely do not want to make light of the serious situation we are all facing right now with the spread of COVID-19, but I am grateful to have found a few giggles to get me through the long days. I hope you will enjoy these as well. Stay safe friends!

Since my blog is named “Katie the Creative Lady” I’m sure you are aware that I’m a believer in making time and energy for creativity. There are different seasons in life and we all have times where we can’t (or don’t) squeeze in creative activities. I’ve been in that space for a few months now with sickness, holidays, moving, and setting up a new house. I kept telling myself that I would get back to it when life slowed down. Well, boy has that happened! Suddenly, our calendars are empty and we are doing our part by practicing social distancing to keep ourselves and everyone else healthy. While I still have responsibilities (and some minor unfinished house constructions details), I’m grateful for my love of creativity as I know it will be a helpful coping mechanism in this uncertain time.

On Wednesday (March 11th) evening, the Coronavirus became very real for the state of Utah when one of the Utah Jazz players tested positive for the virus. Rudy Gobert tested positive right before the tip off of the game against the Oklahoma Thunder and Donovan Mitchell tested positive yesterday. We finally get 2 All-Stars again and then this happens! This sped up the inevitable and resulted in the canceling of the NBA season for now. Other sports have followed suit as well as churches and many other organizations in the state and the country.

We had an extra day of February thanks to Leap Year so I almost forgot to post the roundup prompt! You think I would have been extra prepared with an additional day on the calendar. February has been a good month in our family as we’ve been settling into our new home, but it’s also been a long and tiring month as well. Just like any other month, it’s been filled with good and not-so-good. That’s life and that’s why I love doing roundups to keep track of all of these details.

Do yourself a favor and start (or continue!) to do a monthly roundup this year. You will be so happy with the end result!