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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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• First lot of neonates for the 2024 kitten season. 5 little babes.
• Hooked into hockey program
• 18 years of marriage
• 20 years of business
• Ovarian Cancer Australia Workout 4 Women
• Visit from some of the family from Scotland
• Art Street Art launch

In the News

• US election Trump wins
• ICC issues arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif on accusations of war crimes committed during the Israel–Hamas War
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that a ceasefire deal has been agreed to end fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon
• Flooding in Spain

New recipes

• Chinese chicken curry
• Arabic chicken & potatoes (Tonight p 181)
• Golden Garlic Chicken Bites over Creamy Parmesan Pasta
• Greek Kofta Kebabs
• Ultra Crunchy Fried Chicken Burger
• RTE Chinese BBQ chicken & Garlic Noodles
• RTE Bacon wrapped pork tenderloin
• RTE Chicken Chow Mein

Monthly stats

Photos taken – 508
Books read/listened to: 2

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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Seriously, how is it the 1st of November? Must mean it’s time for another monthly review…

What we’ve been up to

• New laptops. Kids got our old laptops.
• Finally got & set up desks for the kids room.
• Relive the Rivalry footy game. We were sick so missed it.
• Watched the Hawthorn FC Best and Fairest count.
• NRL Grand Final.
• K graduated from the Seagulls to Chips program
• New brakes and tyres for the VW
• J 2 year anniversary of not dying from Pulmonary embolism.
• Watched Bathurst
• First lot of neonates for the 2024 kitten season. 5 little babes.
• Checked out Indie School for K next year
• Packed away winter clothes
• Hooked into hockey program
• Halloween/Beltane

In the News

• The Israel Defense Forces invade southern Lebanon, expanding its conflict against Hezbollah.
• The Japanese parliament elects Shigeru Ishiba as the new prime minister of Japan.
• SpaceX achieves the first successful return and capture of a Super Heavy booster from Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever to fly.
• Spain experiences its worst flooding in half a century, with at least 158 killed and many more missing, as a year’s worth of rain falls in eight hours.

New recipes

• Chinese Sizzling Beef
• Everyday Hokkien Noodles
• glazed hoisin chicken sir fry
• Normandy pork chops
• black bean chilli
• Honey Pepper Chicken

Monthly stats

Photos taken – 319

Books read/listened to: 1

Plans for next month (November)

• Tidy my bedroom & get my craft corner reorganized
• Ovarian Cancer Australia Workout 4 Women – my donation link
• Get back into creating videos for my YouTube channel
• Moving the fridges
• Visit from Scottish rellies
• Our Wedding anniversary (18 years!)
• December Daily Prep day
• Hooked in2 Hockey
• Craft group
• TasPop Geek market
• Gem & Mineral Fair
• Art Street Art launch

Until next month!

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