Category: General

What we’ve been up to

• Finishing off semester 1 of uni
• Understanding Autism & ADHD seminar
• Ali Edwards Week in the Life
• Helping coach Hooked in2 Hockey each week
• Watching the footy (AFL) and Supercars
• K taking part in the local Youth Council and Youth program
• Watching WWE Money in the Bank & Night of Champions
• Long weekend for King’s birthday holiday
• Bought new electric blankets for us all
• Doctors appointments for us all
• Local craft group
• K in the inaugural local Youth Art Prize
• Craft sessions at the local youth drop in centre
• Solstice in the Square
• First week of school hockey games
• My  mum’s birthday (she would have been 75)
• Yule
• Catching up on our business BAS

What I’ve been posting

• Wheel of the Year – Yule

New Recipes

• Slow-cooker beef with tomato chutney
• Mongolian lamb
• cola apricot chicken
• chicken curry

Monthly Stats
Photos taken 285
Books read/Listened to: 4

Plans for next month

• Read/listen to another book
• Reset Week
• Setting Q3 goals
• Semester 2 of uni
• Results from Semester 1
• School holidays & lots of school holiday activities
• Morning tea for parents of the local youth groups
• O Week
• State election
• Local craft group
• 1000 Hearts project with local youth
• Weekly craft time

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Welcome to my monthly review of what we’ve been up to, what new recipes we’ve been trying, and plans for the month to come.

What we’ve been up to

• Uni
• helping coach Hooked In2 Hockey each week
• online creative courses
• Federal Election – the Labor Party won
• Mother’s Day
• Junior Hockey Gala day
• K took part in the state Youth Forum
• local craft group
• Youth Mental health First Aid Course
• School hockey training started back up
• Winter Solstice headdress workshop

What I’ve been posting (links open in new window)

• Nothing new – it’s been a month

New recipes we’ve been trying

• chicken cordon bleu lasagne

Monthly stats

Number of photos taken: 241
Books: 3

Plans for the month ahead

• Pride Month
• Week in the Life
• Autism workshop
• Local crafty hangouts
• more me time (under doctors orders)
• HookedIn2Hockey & School hockey
• online craft summits
• WWDC (online)
• Solstice in the Square
• Yule
• Mum’s birthday

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Welcome to my monthly review of what we’ve been up to, what new recipes we’ve been trying, and plans for the month to come.

What we’ve been up to

• Uni
• helping coach Hooked In2 Hockey each week
• School holidays/Easter break/Mid-semester break
• celebrated Samhain
• watching Wrestlemania
• ANZAC Day
• having 2 weeks without a car, during school holidays

What I’ve been posting (links open in new window)

• ANZAC Biscuit
• Celebrating the Wheel of the Year – Samhain

New recipes we’ve been trying

• Air Fryer Honey Butter Garlic Chicken Tenders
• Honey Garlic Chicken Pita
• Old fasioned egg and bacon pie
• Chicken puff kievs
• Honey-Infused Creamy Chicken Pasta with Crispy Bacon
• Leftover Lamb Shepherd’s Pie
• Family burger pie (Cookidoo recipe)
• Hawaiian chicken meatballs (modified as we can’t use pineapple)
• potato & bacon soup

Monthly stats

Number of photos taken: 260
Books: 2

Plans for the month ahead

• Voting in our federal election
• Watching WWE Backlash
• Mother’s Day
• Online craft summits
• Local crafty hangouts
• IDAHOBIT
• Eurovision
• Youth Mental Health First Aid training

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Welcome to my monthly review of what we’ve been up to, what new recipes we’ve been trying, and plans for the month to come.

What we’ve been up to

• Uni – submitted my first assignment
• helping coach Hooked In2 Hockey each week
• celebrated Autumn Equinox
• started on my 100 Happy Days for 2025

What I’ve been posting (links open in new window)

• Planner set up for 2025 – Part 4
• Celebrating the Wheel of the Year – Mabon (Autumn Equinox)
• How to use a brain dump in your planner

New recipes we’ve been trying

• Slow-cooker smoky pulled chicken
• Cowboy Butter Chicken Linguine (it’s a recipe I saw on Facebook and tried. It’s not bad)
• RecipeTin Eats Slow Cooked Italian Meatballs (Dinner p 259)
• RecipeTin Eats Sticky Pantry Chicken (Dinner p122)
• Crispy Skin Peking Duck

Monthly stats

Number of photos taken: 156
Books: 1 (1 started)

Plans for the month ahead

• Easter School holidays
• Mid semester break
• All the April birthdays
• 100 Happy Days
• Wrestlemania
• ANZAC Day
• TasFaire

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Welcome to my monthly review of what we’ve been up to, what new recipes we’ve been trying, and plans for the month to come.

What we’ve been up to

• Back to school prep for the kiddos. Youngest in Grade 5 and the Eldest starting year 9 at Indie School.
• Finish setting up my planner for 2025
• General life stuff
• Eldest turned 15
• I started uni – O week and Week one

What I’ve been posting (links open in new window)

• Celebrating the Wheel of the year – Lammas
• Birthday Week
• Planner set up for 2025 Pt 3
• In the Den Kitchen
• Updating
• It’s a throw back

New recipes we’ve been trying

• Sweet & Sour pork
• Crispy chicken burgers

Monthly stats

Number of photos taken:200
Books: 2 (1 finished, 1 started)

Plans for the month ahead

• Celebrate Autumn Equinox
• Hooked In2 Hockey
• International Women’s Day events
• Birthdays
• 100 Happy Days

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Welcome to my monthly review of what we’ve been up to, what new recipes we’ve been trying, and plans for the month to come.

What we’ve been up to

• NYE with friends. Had a great night until youngest tripped and skun both knees then big had an allergic reaction to something
• Massive New Year clean up in the bedrooms, lounge room and kitchen
• Setting up my 2025 planners & creating videos for my YouTube channel
• K at leadership camp for 3 days
• Chinese takeaway for Dad’s birthday
• K had first Youth Council meeting
• Birthday week

What I’ve been posting (links open in new window)

• December month in review
• Planner set-up for 2025 Pt 1 and Pt 2 (part 3 & 4 coming soon)
• Celebrating the Wheel of the year – Southern Hemisphere style

New recipes we’ve been trying

• Tandoori chicken
• Rolled Pork Belly with apricot honey stuffing – Give this a go if you love pork & apricots. It’s very yummy.
• Lamb & apricot meatballs – These were good. Going to retry them as rissoles as some didn’t like the sauce
• Mongolian meatballs

Monthly stats

Number of photos taken:201
Books: 3 (1 finished, 2 more started)

Plans for the month ahead

• Celebrate Lammas
• Get the kids ready for back to school
• Inchie challenge
• K’s birthday
• I start uni!

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What we’ve been up to

• Christmas shopping
• Indie School interview for K
• Christmas parade
• Annual D&D group Christmas dinner
• Early Christmas lunch with my family
• End of school year
• Christmas with in laws
• Boxing day with Dad
• Doctor Who Christmas special
• Bestie’s mum’s funeral
• New Year’s Eve party

In the News

• Martial law declared in South Korea by the president. He is then impeached about a week later.
• United Healthcare CEO shot & killed by Luigi Mangione
• Earthquake in Vanuatu
• Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, an Embraer ERJ-190AR, crashes in Kazakhstan. Twenty-nine out of the 67 on board survive the crash
• Jeju Air Flight 2216, a Boeing 737-800 passenger flight from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, to Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, veers off the runway at Muan International Airport and crashes into a barrier, killing 179 people. Two injured survivors are reported.

New recipes

• Beef steak fajitas

Monthly stats

Photos taken – 505
Books read/listened to: 1

Plans for next month (January)

• Tidy my bedroom & get my craft corner reorganized
• Get back into creating videos for my YouTube channel
• Finish December Daily /Journal Your Christmas
• NYE
• 2025 goals
• K at leadership camp
• Dad’s birthday
• My birthday

Until next month!

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