My Week In Review!

The Weekend...

The best laid plans can sometimes go pear-shaped.  We were going on a day trip to Busselton, but delays caused us to reschedule. We did have a busy weekend though, nonetheless.

• Talked to my daddy on the phone.
• Went to Kmart - bought bicycle locks and kids clothes
• Went to Coles - bought plastic containers for the kitchen
• Went to Gosnells Markets - got eyebrows waxed and bought fresh fruit and veg
• Went to Bunnings - bought casters, plants and the kids had a play!  Drooled a lot.
• Cleaned out the bunny cages
• Reorganised our pantry!
• Caught up on washing
• Dyed my hair
• Enjoyed the kids giving their Papa, Father's Day gifts in bed
• Woke up to find a missing bunny! I guess I didn't close the cage properly, so after some hunting, we found him.  Then after some coaxing, I caught him and returned him to his hutch.
• Got ready to go to Busselton
• Started driving and realised I'd left a bag of gear behind that we needed & one child had no shoes! Decided to reschedule.
• Came home and had bacon and eggs
• Enjoyed a nap
• Spent some time researching bicycle accessories
• Went for a ride with the family
• Went out for dinner

The Week

• Took the Daisybug on a bus and train journey to the city to collect some important papers
• Caught up with the folding
• Went to belly dancing class
• Did a ton of online browsing for bike gear, belly dancing gear, boots, candles etc
• Took a hot lunch to school for the boy people whilst letting the Daisybug jump in muddy puddles!
• Did my e-learning for Lifeline, Mental Health
• Did some stair climbing at the train station while waiting for a friend! <puff puff>
• Bought shoes online
• Went to Lifeline for face to face training
• Slept a lot
• My bike trailer arrived!!!
• Spent an afternoon with my brother and his family at the park!
• Had coffee and biscuits with my Jenfriend
• Took hot lunch to the boy-people at school again - 10 mins on the bike!
• Voted
• Posted letters
• The children had friends over after school
• Took the kids to the shop on the bikes - NOT DOING THAT AGAIN ANY TIME SOON!
• Home made fast food - chips and nuggets!
• Wrote this post because I couldn't sleep

Hopes for this weekend...

• Clean up the house
• Clean up the patio
• Do some study
• Get casters on the rabbit hutches
• Do some blogging

My Week In Review

My Weekend... Nice!

• Slept in until MIDDAY on Saturday
• Posted My Week in Review
• Wrote Day 18 and Day 19 posts for the 30 Day Blog Challenge
• Ate bacon and eggs with grilled tomato - delish
• Collected the new bunny and got all 3 settled in a new location on the patio
• Played the mean-mummy card on my naughty boys. Will they get the xbox back?

My Week

• Got swamped in the laundry department, still floundering!
• Blogged Day 20 of the 30 Day Blog Challenge
• Had coffee with my brother and sister-in-law
• Belly dancing class - SHIMMY!!!  Happiness is, a new coin belt!
• Penned a post for Day 21 of the 30 Day Blog Challenge even though there was no set topic
• Enjoyed coffee with my Jenfriend! <3
• Had a bit of an emotional meltdown over hormones and life
• Spent an afternoon talking and snuggling with one of my boys
• Baked cookies from my freezer dough stash
• Moved the bunny houses out of the rain - 2nd relocation this week!
• Completed the e-training for my Lifeline course - topic, addiction
• Wrote Day 22 and Day 23 posts for the 30 Day Blog Challenge
• Bought new containers for my kitchen reorganisation!
• Got back into the school baking swing of things with a double batch of pikelets and a single batch of white choc-chip pikelets. 
• Baked pizza scrolls for lunch.
• Walked an extra school run to deliver forgotten library books to the big boy
• Became the proud owner of a bicycle for the first time in 18 years!
• Had a parent teacher meeting
• Watched my little boy's class host the school assembly!

Hopes for the weekend...

• A trip to Rainbow Farm for photos in the flowers
• Get my eyebrows done
• Organise my kitchen
• Get some sleep!

My Week in Review!

My Weekend

• Cleaning the house
• Preparing party food
• Entertaining my birthday boy's friends and family.
• Cleaning up
• Napping

My Week

• Wrote a post for Day 11, Day 12, and Day 13 for the 30 Day Blog Challenge
• Posted My Week In Review for last week.
• Cleaned my cutlery and utensil drawers in my kitchen after my daughter spilled juice into them!
• Took my Bunny to the vet and learned to give oral medicines to her via syringe.  I hope it helps!
• Went to belly dancing class and played with hot pink fan veils!  So pretty and very energetic!
• Posted for Day 14 for the 30 Day Blog Challenge after listening to Natalie Sisson's Podcast twice!
• Completed my e-learning for Lifeline on Domestic and Family Violence and Sexual Assault (because it didn't record my result last week!  Grrr) AND Child Protection
• Chilled out with a jigsaw puzzle while listening to said podcast
• Helped two friends with some very different copy writing needs
• Listened to The Desire Map AGAIN!
• Wrote my Day 15 and Day 16 posts for the 30 Day Blog Challenge
• Took the kids out to dinner
• Did some art journalling - first time in ages
• Made a call I was not looking forward to making
• Sent some emails I have been meaning to send
• Started fundraising for the 2014 Step Up For MS Challenge! 
• Created new reward charts for my kids
• Wrote Day 17 post for 30 Day Blog Challenge

Dreams for my weekend

• Sleep
• Smiles with my children
• Study
• Writing
• Editing
• A new bunny! (No, before you wonder, not to repace my sick bunny.  Another new furry bundle of love!)

My Week In Review!

I forgot to post this last Friday!

My Weekend... :-)

• Completed my Domestic and Family Violence and Sexual Assault module for Lifeline Crisis Support training  
• Played Monopoly Revolution with the kids!
• Watched a movie with Rob.  Identity Thief
• Did some food shopping
• Got some clothes bargains for the kids for next year
• Spend the afternoon with the kids at an 8 year old's birthday party

My Week:

• Paid bills
• Located a lost file
• Scheduled a Krispy Kreme fundraiser for my 2014 Step Up For MS Challenge - details coming soon!
• Wrote Day 5 and Day 6 blog posts for the 30 Day Blog Challenge.
• Belly Dancing!
• Wrote Day 7 blog post for the 30 Day Blog Challenge and added in my own Day 8 topic!
• Baked banana bread muffins and a double sized banana bread that met a tumbling fate
• Made wheatbix slice
• Took my baby boy to the doctor after a mystery allergic reaction
• Bought a birthday present for my big boy, to add to the one that's a little too big to open (There has to be something to unwrap on the big day!)
• Snuggled and napped with my sick little one
• Wrote my Day 9 post
• Created dozens of little cup cakes for my birthday boy's class, and a huge mess in the kitchen
• Delivered cakes on foot as well as birthday macaroni cheese
• Had coffee with Jenfriend
• Soaked in the bath!  
• Wrote my post for Day 10
• Took my birthday boy out to dinner with the family
• Cleaned my house for the birthday party!
• Rearranged my kitchen cupboards

Dreams for the weekend...

That my sweet little 8 year old boy has an amazing birthday party to remember!  And that I survive the experience! LOL

WOW, What a week! My Week In Review!

I don't know if these posts are interesting or valuable to anyone but me.  But its my blog! LOL I like doing them!

• Bought new shoes for the boys
• Took the kids out to lunch
• More shopping
• Cleared out and began planting out a garden bed
• Caught up on the washing
• Went for a night time vegetable shopping adventure with the kids
• Started my Christmas shopping!!!
• Took the kids to a Bunnings workshop where they decorated hats
• Restocked bunny supplies of food and hay
• Planted strawberries and aloe vera.
• Soaked in a lovely hot bath

My week...

• Baked chocolate cupcakes
• Signed up for a 30 day blog challenge
• Had coffee with my brother and sister-in-law
• Began writing this blog post
• Made and froze 7 rolls of cookie dough for quick snacks later
• Wrote A Field Of Flowers Is Waiting
• Attended my first belly dancing class for this term and began learning to dance with a veil!
• Napped!  So delicious!
• Tested out one roll of cookie dough!  YUMMY chocolate chip!
• Completed Day 1 of the 30 Day Blog Challenge.  My post is here!
• Caught up on the FOLDING!
• Watched an interesting documentary on mothers in the US prison system.  (I WATCHED TV FOR A CHANGE!)
• Had a long leisurely soak in the tub!
• Wrote my Day 2 post for the 30 Day Blog Challenge 
• Completed my Grief and Loss and Relationships modules for my Lifeline training
• Took an invigorating walk in the rain to deliver hot macaroni cheese to my 2 schoolboys for lunch! <3
• Shared a dessert night with my brother and his family!
• Cooked chicken curry and spaghetti bolognese to fill tummies and the freezer!
• Made a double batch of pikelets (and a comical mess!)
• Wrote my Day 3 post  for The Suitcase Entrepreneur's 30 Day Blog Challenge
• Completed the E-Learning for my next Lifeline module - Domestic and Family Violence and Sexual Assault
• Wrote my Day 4 post for The Suitcase Entrepreneur's 30 Day Blog Challenge
• Got brave and invited all my Facebook friends to my On Sparkling Wings Facebook Page and Blog

Dreams for this weekend!

• Hot Baths
• Attend a daylong workshop for Lifeline
• Do some editing on a project
• Do some more writing
• Spend Sunday with my babies!
• Get lots of sleep
• Find some missing paperwork 
• Do some baking for school lunches next week - namely savoury and sweet scrolls

My Week in Review!

Another week drifted on by!

• Wrote about my testimonial for the Amazing Biz and Life Academy appearing in the latest newsletter.  Read the blog post here!
• Welcomed a new family member - Bunny!

• Had coffee with Jenfriend!
• Went FREE Kindle book shopping on Amazon (Just a little bit of a book buying frenzy!)
• Tweaked my blog and Facebook Page, and wrote about it
• Got my shimmy on at Belly Dancing class!  (Where did my coordination go? I only missed a week!)
• Made pikelets.
• Collected a sick boy from school... (SIGH)
• Had a sick boy at home from school for a day
• Exercised my wordsmithing abilities helping a friend advertise her business
• Spent time with Bunny
• Signed up for STEP UP FOR MS 2014!  (Can't freakin' wait! And if you feel the love, don't hesitate to donate!)
• Watched a webinar while folding laundry! (A whole lot of laundry!)
• Completed Day 1 of Couch to 5km's
• Made chocolate chip pikelets
• Wrote a blog post about my 2014 Step Up for MS Challenge
• Cleaned out the Daisybug's bedroom!
• Supervised Rob's tree lopping of the dead tree in our yard

And onto the next!!!  :-)

My Week in Review

This week's underlying thread... Connection!  It is a blog post in itself!

• Sleeping
• Wading through laundry in an effort to catch up again - sigh
• Listened to a podcast
• Reconnected with a couple of friends (far from caught up, but we made contact!)
• Earned $7 by selling 2 bags of baby stuff on Gumtree!  (Go me!)
• More podcast listening (and jigsaw puzzling)
• Arranged a coffee date with a lovely online friend who is coming to town soon! (Exciting!)
• Got myself an eye infection - ouch! Got myself some drops and ointment to cure it - ahhhh!
• Made some new friends
• Reconnected with more old friends
• Tending to sick babies
• Went clothes shopping! (2 pair pants, 2 skirts and various other bits and pieces!) 
• Acquired a rabbit hutch!!!  (No bunnies yet!)
• Baked carrot cup cakes
• Dinner partying with friends.  AMAZING food, WONDERFUL company!
• Reached a deeper understanding and relationship mending
• Found out that Leonie Dawson of the AMAZING BIZ & LIFE ACADEMY featured a testimonial I had written forever ago, in the latest newsletter!  Read it here. What a treat!

It has been a difficult couple of weeks for me.  The mojo has been low, the learning curve has been in overdrive.  My health has been faltering.  But I feel like I'm getting back on top now... I hope I am! :-)

My Week in Review

Cough... That sums up this week just passed!

• Recovering from bugs = sleep, hot baths, hot drinks + lots of tissues
• Put in a Nutrimetics order. :-)
• Filled in school paperwork for excursions
• Listed 1 item on Gumtree!
• Belly dancing class!
• Listened to a podcast and did a jigsaw puzzle, then completed the associated worksheet to the podcast.
• Meditation
• Got my new coin belt in the mail!  <SHIMMMMY>
• Wrote a blog post about 100 Things to do This Year
• Worked on a couple of draft posts
• Kept 2 boys busy as they were home from school - 1 sick, 1 with an injured foot
• Read "The Desire Map"
• Did jigsaw puzzles online
• Watched Mitchell's school assembly! Proud of my boy-person!
• Baked a cake
• Watched Dirty Dancing and folded laundry
• Friendship malfunction... sigh
• Slept, coughed, slept, woke, coughed, slept some more.
• Had coffee with Jenfriend

So happy to see the back end of this week.  Bring on a new, healthy energetic one!

My Week in Review

This week has been a bit quieter than its been in a long time.  I would love the productivity, but I need peace.

* Belly dancing class!

* Bought myself a coin belt and fell in love with costumes.

* Folded and sorted a ton of laundry.  Working on giving away some unnecessary items.

* Did a lot of dancing to loud music on my own!

* Made an enormous decision about how I will spend my time up until the end of this year.

* Reading

* Yoga class

* Started volunteering at school with a literacy program

* Made a decision that's making me uncomfortable and am now problem solving it.

* Had a sick little boy come home twice from school

* Food shopping

* Coffee with Jenfriend

* Had social plans fall through... So we shall reschedule and I will have a self indulgent night in be with a good book.
* Committed to taking up running...  Believe it or not!
* Found myself a too friendly virus and gave it a home for a few days... :-/
* Hot baths
* Sleeping

Emotional ups and downs... Physical ups and downs...  Wheeee...

My Week In Review!

Another big week!  Lots of fun!

• Caught up with photo uploads on Facebook!
• Ophthalmology appointment.
• Napping
• My first ever belly dancing class!  (LOVE IT but soooo lacking in coordination and upper body strength!)
• LOTS of walking!
• Wrote a blog post about my Depepi Magazine Article being published and on sale! <3 Awesome experience!
• Yoga class!!!  (Soooo needed that!)
• Volunteered at playgroup.
• Attended a meeting for a new literacy catch-up program they are starting at school and signed up for 2 mornings a week starting next Wednesday!
• Two of the boy's friends came to play after school one afternoon!
• Created myself a mobile "working basket" containing all the stuff I need all of the time.  (Future blog post here!)
• Set an incredible goal that makes me happy, makes many other goals fall into place and inspires imagination! <3 
• Note taking from my text book!
• Walked down DOOL memory lane with new friends! :-)
• Got inspired to write something!
• Started writing!
• Shelved writing for now...
• Dealt with the repercussions of 3 wet beds in one night! Lots of washing!
• Created two costumes for a disco with items we had around the house.  Batman and Luke Skywalker!
• Chatted on the phone with a wonderful new friend for an hour or two!
• Made a big decision about life... 
• Caught up on sleeping
• Lots of reading!
• Lots of laundry...  as always!

Its funny... I feel like I achieve more in the beginning part of the week and very little at the end.  

Oh well!!!

My Week In Review!

The highlights of the week just gone! :-)

• Baked chocolate cupcakes, jam scrolls and date cupcakes for school lunches!
• Finished reading "One Minute Millionaire."
• Received an acceptance letter to join the LifeLine Telephone Counselling course, commencing July 3rd! (Scary excitement!)
• Salvaged the lounge room after school holidays! (Oh what delights lie beneath the sofa! LOL)
• Cleaned my babies' cot now its done being used as a cot. 
• Soaked in 3 podcasts.
• Coffee with Jenfriend.
• Ruminating with Bev.
• MEGA fruit and vegetable shop... So much food!
• Culinary experiment - gajar halwa. Thumbs up but a bit less sugar next time.
• Made a giant spaghetti sauce!  
• Stocked the freezer with at least 6 meals of spag bol sauce and 6 tubs of homemade tomato soup (Rob's handiwork!)
• Caught up on my blanket fort circle reading!
• Mother's Day celebrations in bed with my babies.
• More coffee with Jenfriend!
• Lots of folding laundry!
• Long soak in the tub with a book!
• Took the kids on a 5.5km walk!

Onto another week!  Hope you have a great one! :-)

My Week In Review!

I am going to borrow an idea from a blog that I adore, tranquility du jour and do a review of my week!  I think its interesting to look back and see just what one does with their time, be it good use or not!

It has been a busy week!

• Penned Tall Towers, MS and Lessons.
• Did a tour of local playgrounds with my pal Coralie and all the kids!
• Placed a Nutrimetics order.
• Wrote and submitted my very first article destined for a new magazine! (Scary excitement!)
• Soaked in a webinar.
• Created a Facebook Page for this blog!
• Coffee with Jenfriend!
• Drew an illustration for my magazine article.
• Baked cupcakes.
• Let the kids have a sleep over guest!
• Took 4 kids on a bus and train adventure to the park to see friends.
• Ate tons of Indian Food with Jodie and Mike!
• Removed the cot from the Daisybug's bedroom and replaced it with a big girl bed.
• Gave Daisybug a nice, neat, organised and pretty bedroom!
• Caught up on washing and some of the folding.
• Lots of reading!
• Posted on my Nutrimetics Facebook page
• Defrosted the freezer.
• Compiled this list!  Ta da!

Now, on to a new week!  May it be more productive but just as fun ask this one!  That shouldn't be hard!  The kids go back to school on Tuesday!  Happy dance time!