Monthly Musings: March 2026
ft. a recap of baby's first trip(!), some crafting talk, and the usual ramblings
Ciao, friends! Happy Sunday! How the heck are you? Welcome to our Monthly Musings: March 2026 post — I hope it finds you well! Not to show my Irish-ness by talking about the weather, but can we please talk about the weather for a second? Isn’t it nice that the rain has finally stopped? Can you actually even believe that Tuesday just gone was the first day of the! whole! year! without a drop of rain? All the way to March without a single dry day; how insane is that? How Irish! It’s been so nice the past few days to be able to go out and enjoy the sunshine, even if it’s been accompanied by a crisp fresh wind — I’ll take it. Weather talk aside, shall we get down to business?
Our musings for the month ahead are below. All the usual suspects are there — travel, recipes, movies, books — with a few additional tidbits thrown in for good measure.
Enjoy, friends!
monthly musings: march 2026
Baby update: Bean is officially 5-months old and things are going so well! She still loves going for walks in her chariot — aka: buggy —, still sleeps through the night, and is still super easy-going. Her current favourite things are holding onto her feet, which is the cutest thing ever(!), kissing her Big Bird teddy goodnight, and being around us when we’re doing even the most boring things. Milestone wise, she rolled over for the first time last month! It was both very exciting and wildly anti-climactic.
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It’s official: we survived our first trip away with our little bambina! We spent one week soaking up the vibes — aka: eating and drinking to our heart’s content — in Bologna, Rimini, and San Marino; it went so well! Bean was an absolute angel travel companion: very adaptable, super chilled, and had no problem moving from city to city or settling into different travel cots etc. The journey had us taking trains, buses, planes, taxis and shuttles, and I’m pleased to report she didn’t go ballistic even one time! Her easy & cheery nature made the whole trip so much easier for us; we feel so lucky to have had everything go off without a hitch. I’ve already started dreaming up our next escape 😉
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Aside from the win of traveling with our piccolina, it just felt so good to get out there and travel again! We hadn’t been away since our babymoon trip to Gdańsk last May, and I cannot even begin to explain how wonderful it was to leave the country for a bit! We spent four days in Bologna, three days in Rimini, and did a day-trip to San Marino from the latter; it was perfect. Bologna still fits us like an old glove, and it was surreal to revisit some favourite spots with our baby in tow. Rimini and San Marino were both new-to-us, and I can’t believe we finally made it to either — we’d been planning and failing to visit both since 2022! Travel guides coming soon!
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I mentioned last month that I want to bring a little more fun/joy to boring everyday stuff, and I’ve been making a few small changes to achieve this. One of these things has been to colour code my calendar. Orange for family, pink for friends, yellow for holidays, red or green for appointments, and blue for birthdays. It’s such a tiny thing, but looking at the rainbow of colours makes even the mundane a little more fun! Other small but joyous things I’ve been doing: being more proactive in organizing to see friends, painting my nails fun colours, and treating myself to an iced latte every now and then.
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I also mentioned last month that I wanted to get back into scrapbooking and, omg, it is the tonic I didn’t know I needed! I ordered some fun little scrapbook bits and bobs — deco paper, round-edge cutter, paper guillotine, many stickers, etc. — online and I could lose hours in the scrapbooking zone! I’ve been focusing all my energies on Bean’s baby book, and it’s turning out so cute! I’m almost up to date on that, and then I’m going to turn my crafty attention to making felt birthday crowns — I’m so excited!
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What’ve you been watching lately? Movie-wise, things have been pretty slow for us. New watches include The Housemaid, which we both thought was so overrated and long, and Bones and All, which, while gross, I found weirdly romantic? We also watched The Thomas Crown Affair, which reignited my desire to become an art-thief. Don’t the movies just make it look so easy and cool? Fun rewatches include My Best Friend’s Wedding, Knocked Up, and Wedding Crashers. TV-wise, we’ve found ourselves rewatching Seinfeld lately. It’s just such a comforting watch, it is literally the perfect thing to put on at the end of the day when you’re brain is too tired to comprehend anything else!! I refuse to be sorry about this rewatch! To follow along with our movie watching in real-time on Letterboxd, click here.
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Did you read anything great last month? I continued down the Stephen King rabbit hole and read If It Bleeds, a collection of four short stories. I wouldn’t normally go in for short stories, but it was actually quite fun! My favourites were Rat and If It Bleeds, but the other two weren’t half bad either! All of them had a supernatural element, which, again, I wouldn’t normally go in for, but those parts weren’t overtly in-your-face supernatural, so I was able to accept it, you know? Either way: fun! To follow along with my reading in real-time on StoryGraph, click here.
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Recipes from around the web: Husband has made this gorgeous soda bread recipe a handful of times over the last few weeks and it is so good! It tastes just like McCambridge’s, but the resulting loaf is much larger, and it’s so fresh and lovely! Would definitely recommend if you’re looking for a nice healthy homemade brown bread recipe.
And there we have it, our Monthly Musings: February 2026 post! I hope you found something to take away with you, be it a hankering to start scrapbooking, a recipe, or an urge to book a flight. Catch you again next month!
Hugs,
Vicki xo
PS: the photo above was taken in Bologna last week! Wandering around our beloved quadrilatero district, sometime between eating gramigna alla salsiccia and nocciola gelato, pondering our Aperol spritz spot for the evening, with the sun beaming through the market justtt right. Sigh, I miss Italy already. Ugh.
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