Review – The HeartWord Way

What!? Another month GONE!? Already!?

I don’t know if that’s how you’re feeling, but it’s definitely how I’m feeling. So, I hope you understand why this post is so late…

I’ll make up for it with the full post I have planned for today. I’ll be doing my September Monthly Recap and giving you an overview of what my first bullet journal looked like.

Books

So, this month I finished reading the series that I started in August. The title of the series is The Golden Filly Series, and it’s a set of ten books about a teenage girl who rides horses. Tricia Evanston, the main character in the book, hopes to become a jockey after high school, but she also has to deal with the fact that her father just found out he has cancer. Tricia struggles with anger at both God and her father. The series follows her horse-riding journey, and she attempts to win the Triple Crown. Tricia learns that she should trust and praise God in everything, and she and her family learn to deal with her father’s cancer.

These books are really good, and they give a good lesson for those willing to listen.

Since I knew October was the next month, I decided to reread the Harry Potter series. I got Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first book in the series, read before the end of September, and I plan to continue the series throughout this month.

Writing

Unfortunately, I didn’t get much writing done last month, and I probably won’t get much done in October as well. I’ve had tons of tests and studying to do in school, and this month, I won’t have much time because I’ll be packing boxes! My family is getting ready to move to a different house before the end of October!

But… I actually did get one big achievement done in my writing during September. My school has a writing prompt each month, and you can submit what you wrote in response to the prompt to the school. If they like your story or poem, then they will work with you for the next few weeks to revise it, and then publish it on their blog! Well, guess what! I submitted a story based on September’s prompt, and I got chosen!

Here it is if you want to read it: https://enlightiumacademy.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/48000952365-the-final-letter.

The prompt was to write a story of poem about a letter.

Bullet Journaling

I feel like I did pretty well in my bullet journal last month. I filled it out almost every day, and I am proud of the hard work I’ve done to get my new bullet journal ready.

I’ve been working really hard on my new journal for the last couple of weeks, getting it ready for this month. You’ll be seeing pictures soon!

Blogging

So, I definitely didn’t get as many posts out as I wanted to… I only did one… oops… Please, forgive me. I’ve been super busy recently. This month I’ll try to do better.

Goals

My goals last month were:

Fill out bullet journal every day. I did pretty good on this area.
Write every day. Here, I did the opposite of ok…
Be more productive. I feel like I was. I did lots of planning for my new bullet journal, and spent a lot of time studying.
Get A’s and B’s. 95% of my school work was probably an A or B.
Do 3 blog posts. Oops…

My goals for this month are:

Get to where you’re drinking three cups of water every day.
Bullet journal every day.
Pre-plan posts and get them out on time.
Be better about logging exercise.
Read Bible every day.

Review of my 1st Bullet Journal

This is how much time was done in my bullet journal:

1 year
months
weeks

The following is a list of the pages I used in my bullet journal:

8 habit trackers
8 sleep logs
6 mood trackers
8 different weekly layouts
3 dream logs
2 gratitude logs
4 pages for school: grade trackers
A list of birthdays
A page for books to read: a list of books I wanted to read
A water tracker
3 quotes pages: pages dedicated to quotes or Bible verses
A weather tracker (which turned out to be beautiful)
A page for books of the Bible: a checklist where I could check off the books I read
A packing list: a list of things I always pack on a trip
A page for my ideal day: a schedule for a perfect day
A cleaning list: a list for cleaning my room
A fitness tracker: a place to track the exercise I did
A page for New Year’s resolutions: a list of my New Year’s resolutions and a tracker for them
A stress tracker
A page for Keeper of the Lost Cities: a page where I listed out my Would You Rather questions I had created

And that’s all the pages I did in my bullet journal. A few of them I probably won’t do again, but that’s ok. At least I know what pages work and what pages don’t.

Well, that’s it for this post!

How long have you been bullet journaling? Do you like bullet journaling? Have you tried it? How did your September go? Talk to me in the comments! I love hearing what you all think about what I post!

My next post will probably be next week, and it’ll be all about starting a bullet journal, so stay tuned!

Thanks for reading! Happy writing!

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:5 ESV

Hello, everyone! Sorry for the long wait! Thank you for your patience!

Today, I’m going to give my review on the book series by C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia. I know it has been several months since I promised this post, and I apologize. I suppose I just never got around to it. (WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!)

For each book, I will list my favorite part, what I liked, what I didn’t like, and give a quick summary.

Book One: The Magician’s Nephew

I think this was my second favorite book. I loved this book, from cover to cover. I think it was one of the best ones in the series. My favorite part was when Narnia was being created. There is such beautiful imagery, and I love the way it parallels to when God created our world. To be honest, I liked everything about this book. Not any dislikes, except for Digory’s uncle. I really just didn’t like him.

The book starts off with Digory and Polly meeting each other. They become friends, and soon Polly shows him the secret tunnel in her attic that connects all the houses on their street. They end up trying to get inside a house that they know is abandoned, but they end up in Digory’s attic instead. They find their Digory’s uncle and he offers Polly a ring. Polly accepts and as soon as her hand touches the ring, she vanishes. After Digory’s uncle gives a long explanation of what happened, Digory grabs a ring to go and save Polly. Once Digory finds her, they end up deciding to explore a bit. They find another world with an evil queen who woke up at the sound of the bell. They try to get back to their own world without her, but she follows them and starts to take over Earth. Digory and Polly use the rings to try to take her back to her world, but they end up in Narnia. Aslan, the lion who created the world lets them go home, but the witch ran away.

Book Two: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

This was probably my favorite book. My favorite part was when all of the children meet Aslan. It reminds me of when we will meet God, in heaven. Some of us He will smile upon, and some of us He will be disappointed in. I didn’t necessarily have any parts that I disliked.

In the beginning, Edmund, Susan, Peter, and Lucy Pevensie are going to go live with Professor Kirk in the countryside. Since this book is set during World War Two, their mother has sent them away from London to escape the bombing. Lucy, the youngest of the four, discovers a wardrobe. Inside the wardrobe, she finds Narnia. She tries to tell the others about her adventure, but they don’t believe her. Finally, they all go into the wardrobe and find Narnia. They try to find Mr. Tumnus, Lucy’s friend she had met in Narnia before, but he is gone. Edmund runs away to find the White Witch and the others are set on a journey to find him. Aslan sacrifices himself so Edmund won’t have to die at the hand of the White Witch. Aslan comes back to life and arrives at the battle between good and evil just in time to save Edmund. Aslan kills the witch, and the battle is won.

Book Three: The Horse and His Boy

This was probably my least favorite book. I didn’t find it as interesting as the first two, and I was disappointed that the four Pevensie children only show up briefly. My favorite part was probably when the two boys find out they are brothers.

Shasta is raised by Arsheesh, whom Shasta believes to be his father. When the boy learns that Arsheesh is planning to sell him, he and Bree, the talking horse, decided to run away. On their journey to Narnia, they meet Aravis, a young Calormene aristocrat, and Hwin, another talking horse. They decide to travel together, and when they begin their travel through the capital of Tashbaan, trouble begins. Shasta is captured because Narnian visitors mistake him for Corin, the prince or Archenland. Shasta overhears their plans to escape a forced wedding between Queen Susan and Rabadash. Shasta escapes when the real Prince Corin returns. Shasta warns Archenland and Narnia of the approaching Calormenes. Shasta finds out he is really the brother of Prince Corin, and they all live happily ever after.

Book Four: Prince Caspian

This was my third favorite book. My favorite part was at the very beginning when the four Pevensies find they are back in Narnia once again.

While waiting for their train on a British railway station, Edmund, Lucy, Susan, and Peter are whisked off to Narnia close to a ruined castle. They discover the castle used to be their castle during their previous visit to Narnia. Although only a year has passed on Earth, over a thousand years have passed in Narnia. The children rescue Trumpkin, a dwarf, from several soldiers who were trying to drown him. Trumpkin reveals the trouble in Narnia: Telmarines have invaded Narnia. When Miraz killed his brother, the king of Narnia, he became king. Miraz’s nephew is Caspian, whom Miraz tries to kill when his wife becomes pregnant. Caspian fled and was rescued by several dwarves who wanted him to help them gather an army to fight the Telmarines. Meanwhile, Trumpkin and the Pevensies arrive to help. Once the Narnians have won, Aslan appears and he takes the children home.

That’s it for today. I’ll continue this review next week. If you haven’t noticed, I have had some trouble getting my posts out every Thursday. I apologize for this. This is mostly due to school work and other things that are just making my life busy. After next week’s post, I will be taking a break from my blog. I will probably start back sometime in June, after school is out. I will definitely have more time then. Thank you for understanding.