Tag: Monthly round up

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!

You can catch up on previous months by checking out the Monthly Reviews tag.

What we’ve been up to

• 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!

You can catch up on previous months by checking out the Monthly Reviews tag.

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!

You can catch up on previous months by checking out the Monthly Reviews tag.

Since we’ve missed so much of this year here’s a pretty general overview of our year to date – February to September.

What we’ve been up to

• K turned 14
• Back to school. K part time
• K went on camp
• State election
• Back to hockey. A playing U14. K playing U14, U16 and Div 3
• Started an art group at A’s school.
• Joined a local art group
• Started coaching school hockey.
• Went to Hobart for the Battle of Crete memorial
• So much hockey
• Checked out Big Picture School as an option for K next year.
• Uni open day

In the News

• State election. Liberals won.
• Eurovision
• Julian Assange freed from prison
• UK Election – Labor wins in a landslide.
• Attempted assassination of Trump.
• US Election debates.
• Biden steps out of the US Election race and endorses Kamala Harris
• Olympics in Paris.
• Global IT outage
• WHO declares mpox a public health emergency
• Hurricane Helene hits the US state of Florida.

New recipes

• Pork Tenderloin with Honey Garlic Sauce
• Chow Mein Ramen Noodles
• Parmesan crusted baked fish & potatoes
• spicy apricot chicken
• chicken satay noodle bowl
• country beef dump dinner
• slow cooker honey soy beef brisket
• chicken casserole with cheesy damper top
• Quick french onion chicken pie
• one pot honey bbq beef brisket
• coconut chicken curry & yoghurt
• slow cooker kung pow chicken
• slow cooked melting pork ramen
• RTE doner kebab
• Slow-cooker beef with tomato chutney
• Slow-cooker spiced chicken meatballs in tomato sauce
• Slow Cooker Coca-Cola Chicken
• Slow cooker Chinese beef
• thai sweet pork
• general tsoa’s chicken
• yakisoba
• pork & hokkien noodle stir fry

Monthly stats (Feb-Sept total)

Photos taken – 2568

Books read/listened to: 2

Plans for next month (October)

• Apply to go uni.
• Get my planner caught back up.
• Get back in0to blogging.
• Tidy my bedroom & get my craft corner reorganized
• K graduation for Seagulls to Chips program
• Get our front car brakes replaced
• 18th birthday do for a friend
• Alt market
• Halloween/Beltane
• Finish some of the books I’ve started

Until next month!

You can catch up on previous months by checking out the Monthly Reviews tag.

Well here we are at the end of the first month of 2024. Time for my first review of the year.

What we’ve been up to

• setting up my 2024 planner (while waiting for my new planner cover to arrive)
• cleaning and decluttering
• enjoying a quiet school holiday
• watching the cricket
• setting up home school stuff for K for Term 1
• new shelves in the kitchen
• dropped one lots of fosters back and picked up another lot
• Dad’s & my birthdays
• J had 30ml of fluid drained off his knee. Gout.

In the News

• Queen of Denmark abdicates
• Plane collision in Japan
• Taiwan elects a new president
• Israel-Hamas war

New recipes

• Singapore noodles
• Lamb koftas

Monthly stats
Photos taken – 340
Books read/listened to:
started – Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torz
finished – The Clean House by Katrina Springer

Plans for next month

• Read 2 books
• Continue working on Declutter 365
• Get my 2024 planner setup in my new Melody cover
• Planner blog posts
• K turns 14

March was a quiet one blog wise as life has been super busy but here’s my monthly snapshot.

Latest posts

• In my Planner – Jan/Feb 2023

New recipes

• quick chicken curry
• chicken leek & corn pie
• curried beef & noodles
• beef fried rice
• meatballs in sticky plum sauce
• garlic butter chicken
• chicken satay rissoles
• bbq pork ribs
• spiced rubbed chicken w maple glaze

What I’ve been consuming (videos, podcasts, books, music)

Lots of craft & gardening videos
AFL

Gratitude

• family
• craft time
• internet friends

Events

• a 13th birthday party – we played D&D
• so many craft/business workshops
• our first lot of bottle fed foster kittens
• School athletics for both kids
• MIL’s birthday

Monthly stats

• Number of photos taken – 364
• Books/pages read – 4 books

Monthly Goals

Current

• Photo-A-Day
• Declutter 365
• Clean up this blog
• Set up April & May in my planner

Next Month

• Photo-A-Day
• Declutter 365
• Winter planner setup
• blog posts

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the 2023 monthly review tag

Welcome to something new I’m doing in 2023 – my month in review. Each month I’ll be sharing

My posts for the month, new recipes I’ve tried, what I’ve been consuming (media wise), how I’ve done with my monthly goals (& sharing the goals for the month ahead), things I’m grateful for, events that happens, stats and anything else I want to share

So onto February 2023

Latest posts

• No new posts since the last review

New recipes

• RecipeTinEats Chicken shawarma
• Beef kebabs
• Meatloaf cupcakes
• Creamy chicken pasta
• RecipeTinEats Chicken lasagne
• Stir fry beef bowl
• Ginger chicken & crunchy noodle salad
• Tandoori chicken wraps (with homemade flour tortillas)
• Chinese pork & vegetables

What I’ve been consuming (videos, podcasts, books, music)

• More junk journal videos
• Lots of history docos
• Death in Paradise
• Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch by Rachel Patterson
• Creative Watercolor by Ana Victoria Calderón
• The Witchy Homestead by Zoe Ingram, Nikki Van De Car

Gratitude

1. Long warm days
2. Kids going back to school
3. James being allowed to drive again

Events

• Lots of craft workshops for me
• Kara turned 13 – I have a teenager!!
• Dad doing a presentation on my Grandfather (his Dad) at the Chin society

Monthly stats

• Number of photos taken – 292
• Books/pages read – 3 books started. 2 books finished.

Monthly Goals

Current

• Photo-A-Day – all done
• Declutter 365 – all done
• Get back into the school routine – daily alarm set for M-F but we still run late most days 🙁
• Clean up this blog – started

Next Month

• Photo-A-Day
• Declutter 365
• Clean up this blog
• Set up April & May in my planner

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the 2023 monthly review tag

Welcome to something new I’m doing in 2023 – my month in review. Each month I’ll be sharing my posts for the month, new recipes I’ve tried, what I’ve been consuming (media wise), how I’ve done with my monthly goals (& sharing the goals for the month ahead), things I’m grateful for, events that happens, stats and anything else I want to share

So onto the review of January 2023

Latest posts

• 2022 – A year in review
• Around here in 2023
• Catching Up – my Winter planner
• Catching up – the rest of 2022 in my planner
• Planner setup for 2023
• 101 things Version 4

New recipes

• English muffins
• Baguettes
• Mongolian beef meatballs
• RecipeTinEats Chicken salad
• Beef rissoles with scallop potato
• Chicken Kyiv pasta bake
• Creamy French onion chicken salad
• Thai chicken meatball salad
• Cheesy one pan sour cream chicken pasta

What I’ve been consuming (videos, podcasts, books, music)

• Junk journal videos
• Cricket – Tests and Big Bash League
• History Channel
• Death in Paradise S10 & S11
• The Legend of Vox Machina Season 2
• Egyptian Mythology by Garry J Shaw
• Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch by Rachel Patterson

Gratitude

1. Family
2. Super relaxed school holidays.
3. Fresh summer fruits – hello mangos

Events

• School holiday workshops for the kids
• Birthdays – Dad & Mine

Monthly stats

Number of photos taken: 363
Books/pages read: 120 pages

Monthly Goals

January Goals

• Photo-A-Day – all 31 days done
• Declutter 365 – a couple of days behind but mostly done
• 1st quarter vision board – done and in my planner

February Goals

• Photo-A-Day
• Declutter 365
• Get back into the school routine
• Clean up this blog

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the 2023 monthly review tag