This is a fun little exercise for anyone to do at the end of each month. What were the highlights and new ideas you came across? Here’s my little wrap up of what I found inspiring this month.

Favorite new recipes (see meal plans for details)

• Skillet Roasted Whole Chicken. Set off the smoke alarm 4 times, but it was worth it.
• Coconut Chickpea Curry. A meatless winner for the grown ups, but not super kid friendly.
• Skillet Roasted Cauliflower and Sausage Rigatoni– delicious!

Reading

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. Interesting ideas and good for people who need a jump start letting things go.
• The Blue Bistro– loving the Overdrive app and getting books downloaded to my Kindle app from the library
• Magazines with the Zinio app and discovering lots of free ones from the library

Listening

• Happy radio on Pandora to make us smile and think of summer
• Deva Premal while I work
• French Cafe radio while I’m cooking

Podcasts

• The Lively Show: Stopping the Glorification of Being Busy. I was so inspired by this chat I wrote a post on paper about it over vacation. Then I got to busy to post it.
• Brilliant Business Moms. Just so many good ones for small business owners, bloggers and busy moms juggling a lot of hats.

Around the web

• How I Keep Track of What I’m Learning– from Emily Freeman

• How to Make a Meal Plan That Will Save Your Life and Make You Pretty

On the Blog

• The real recipe for Green Eggs and Ham dessert
• 10 Things I learned from Brown Eggs and Jam Jars, which could also be added to my Read list this month.
• Are Baby Video Monitors Worth the Money?

What inspired you in February?