Tag: Week in the Life

This year was extremely light on photos, mainly cause I forgot it was WitL until late on the Monday. Some things I can go back and grab a pic of later but, honestly, I’m not overly worried.

Monday
Slept in. Usual pay week Monday. Organise our budget, menu plan and do the grocery list. Had some self care time for me. Caught up on some TV. Did slow cooked honey soy brisket for tea.

Tuesday
Just pottering around home doing housework. Watched this week’s episode of WWE Raw. K had a doctors appointment in the afternoon, then went to her bestie’s place for a sleepover. Treated A and we got school shop pizza for tea then her choice for dessert.

Wednesday
Payday. Up early to take Paisley, Rhino, Deer, Giraffe, Monkey & Chimp to Just Cats as they are all graduating foster care. Breezer got a vaccination booster. Came home with a bunch of freebies thanks to one of the other foster carers. New cat tree which out kitties love. Grabbed some stuff at Officeworks for organising the bedroom. Home and did the online grocery shop and paid bills.
Picked up K then went down to the Launchpad to see the coordinator of Seagulls to Chips about a few things. Apricot chicken for tea then a quite evening watching craft videos. Signed up for a Art Therapy certificate course.

Thursday
ANZAC Day. Watched lots of ANZAC Day events on TV. Did laundry. Cleaned the lounge room. Overall it was a pretty quiet day. We had Chicken Kyiv and pasta for tea, and the kids had dino nuggets.

Friday
Quiet morning pottering around home. Went to a meeting for one of my web clients. Picked up our Woolies order. Put money in the bank for work. Ordered a Hubbl. Had an afternoon nap. Made beef schnitzels for tea then hot fudge and caramel sauce to go on ice cream for dessert.
Worked on a bunch of stuff for my blogs before heading to bed.

Saturday
Up early for a Saturday and headed into Launceston. Grabbed our fortnightly veggies, then went to Kmart and did some shopping. Grabbed Maccas for lunch then headed to Hillwood to visit Dad.
Did a bunch of cleaning. Started on the sun room and did all the litter trays. Folded all the kids clean clothes. Spent the evening pottering in the bedroom.
Chicken tacos for tea.

Sunday
Big cleaning day and getting ready for back to school tomorrow.
Stripped all the bed, washed sheets and remade beds. Took K out so she could go hang out with E. Did a bunch of washing. Quick clean of the dining room. Folded more clean washing. Made sure bags, clothes and lunch boxes are ready for tomorrow, as Term 2 starts tomorrow.
Had a variety tea – pancakes for A, sushi for K and leftover brisket for J & I.
Watched the last of the videos for the ALP Creative Intensive Organisation course. J had his weekly Sunday gaming session (playing Traveller RPG at the moment) so I did some art and set up my planner for the week and prepped my May pages.
Bed at a reasonable time so we can all get up early tomorrow.

This week just gone I’ve been taking part in Ali Edwards Week in the Life project. This year I gave myself much more grace and less pressure to take photos and document everything. I journaled each day in my DayOne  journal I have set up for Week in the Life as well as using Ali’s Digital Journal in GoodNotes.

I was planning to do this year totally digital and print it out but then I decided to use one of my blank Heidi Swapp Storyline Chapters books as it will sit perfectly with my memory planner books. I’ll print out the pages I want from the digital journal, stick them in and embellish.

Once I’m done I’ll be back to update this post with my album gallery.

Week in the Life is a week-long documentation project from the amazing scrapbooker/memory keeper Ali Edwards. You can see previous years by clicking the WitL tag.

This year I ended up doing much more journaling than picture taking but the beauty of it is I can always go back and take photos later.

Most of our days were taken up with work (the joys of being your own boss and an essential service) and schooling from home. Or should I say the battle to get the eldest to do her schooling. 

I decided to add a little something new this year to my journaling and at the end of each day  filled in the answers to the following questions:

Today I:

• watched
• went
• read
• wore
• listened to
• ate
• got up. went to bed
• weather
• made
• on my list

Really apart from the schooling from home and not going anywhere unless really necessary, this year wasn’t all that different to previous years. Now to get my pages done in my Covid album.

And here we are the last day of Week in the Life for 2014. I made it through a whole week this year even if I forgot to take a few photos towards the end. I made heaps of notes of what we did though.

• A ended up in with us overnight.
• Woke about 8:30 and stayed in bed til about 9
• Quick breakfast then dressed.
• Started cleaning lounge
• J cleaning up garage. Girls & I checked out peas growing in our weed filled garden.
• K, A & I spent some time in the hammock.
• Put roast on for tea
• Lunch – toasted sandwich
• Mum picked up K for the afternoon taking her to see gran.
• J & I pottered in garage. A in the Ergo carrier.
• Had tea when K got home.
• Baby bath time then bed.
• Late night dip sandwich while blogging and checking social media
• Bed!!

Today (Monday) I plan to do a photo tour of our house. I may or may not share it here. It will be in my album.
Now to sit down and create my pages.
Looking forward to next year and seeing what has changed and what is the same.

Saturday happenings

• Miss A woke at 7:30
• Back to sleep til 10.
• Up showered, breakfast.
• Made Peppa Pig cookies with Miss K.
• Went to the shop then feed dog & cat.
• Pantsvember!! back into jeans. Thanks to all who donated for Frocktober
• Lunch – savs/toast/sandwich
• Did some washing.
• Did some more in the kitchen
• Tea – bourbon chicken & rice
• Got girls to bed.
• Cleared off table for D&D
• Two laptops. Multitasking. Surfing the net on the PC while sorting files on the Mac

Friday was a bit light on photos but lots of notes.

• Miss A woke at 7. Feed then back to sleep.
• J let us all sleep til 9:30 when I got up. Girls slept til 10.
• Cuppa & breakfast- fruit & yoghurt. Miss K had a story with J
• Started watching creativeLIVE
• Shower
• Happy mail – scrappy canary monthly sub
• Lunch – French toast or a fried egg or a boiled egg
• Miss A had a nap in cot.
• Cleaned kitchen.
• Tea – creamy tomato and bacon pasta
• Made dough for pizza scrolls
• Took A to bed.
• Made pizza scrolls and apple muffins.
• Skyped mum.
• Put girls to bed while J went out.
• Mum came in and we did some cards
• The last of my dresses for Frocktober