Hi everyone! How's your year being going? I had a pretty busy productive year. During semester one I managed to have some relief contract work as a teacher aide at one primary school. I mostly worked with additional needs students and junior grades. During term one I done a lot of walking to and from the public pool as all grades had their swimming lessons. In March I completed my first marshalling of the Cross Country which I actually enjoyed. I see can why PE teachers love their job!! Within two hours all grades had run/walked around the school grounds. In August I was involved in Senior Sports Day by being the starter for 800m track events for all age groups.
In term 4 I was introduced to volunteer work at Lifeline where I worked with two other machinists in creating recycled goody (ie cloth) bags to sell at all Lifeline stores in South East Queensland. I would spend up to 15 hrs per week on sewing bags. I used to sew my own clothing long before I had a family of my own and now I should consider get back into sewing again.
What a year I had! Besides catching with my some friends and relatives throughout the year, the biggest highlight of the year is my eldest daughter: Monique got married to the father of her child on 2nd March 2019. They had their wedding ceremony in a park's gazebo at bayside area while the reception was held at a community hall nearby with over 60 guests of mainly family members and closest friends.
Another big highlight of the year: Monique and Steve had their second child. A baby girl name Jade was welcomed into the world on 29th September 2019. At the present time she looks so much like her grandfather (ie Steve's father). She weighed in at 9lb 7oz. Most of the wedding guests knew about Monique's pregnancy as Steve had made the annoucement during the speeches at their wedding. Monique was only ten weeks pregnant at time of announcement.
Krystal is now three years old who looks more like her Grandma (ie Steve's mum). She attends Kindy three days a week, one morning at playgroup and has swimming lessons on Sundays. Also she was introduced to ten pin bowling. Some weeks she might socially play a game with somebody else she knows well. Watch this space to find out if she will become like her mother and be introduced to league play in the near future. Krystal had her family birthday celebrations at their home address in July. Her party was The Wiggles theme as she loves them! Emma is her favourite character.
We had made a couple of weekend trips to Hervey Bay to see Rachel this year. The last weekend visit was last month! We went shopping and visit the Story Bank (ie Mary Poppins Museum) in Maryborough. She plans on coming down to Brisbane in 2020 to celebrate her birthday with me.
Still ten pin bowling at the same centre but I was introduced to a new singles league as the old league of three seasons decided to transferred to a different centre. I have stayed in contact with afew people. I had my 50th party by social bowling with some past league players. Next year I will be playing at a different centre. Also might consider a touring league where you play at different centre once a month.
Still been creative with my papercrafting by attending to regular workshops. I found new two consultants who live more local now and host regular meets per month on some weekends. And lucky me managed to attend two weekend retreats at Brookfield. Consider all the workshops I attended to I managed to create some wedding scrapbooking pages and work through other projects during the year.
In October I attended to a live concert performance at Kedron Wavell Services Club (ie RSL club) with my friend. We had dinner at a restaurant then went upstairs to seen ABBA Live who performed to ABBA songs for 2½ hrs. Were you an ABBA fan in the 70's? What was your favourite song?
On 5th December Monique and I had a day trip to Lismore to attend to McLeod's Daughters Reunion in the city hall. The afternoon event was for fans to be involved in a Q and A session to learn more about the actors and their life on the show. Monique was the lucky one to take advantage to ask a good question and two of the actors answered her. I had planned to ask a question but another fan beaten me.
Have you noticed how much spending we all intend to do leading up to Christmas and the public holiday goes out the door so fast? This Christmas will be a just quiet one with local family members. All the best for a happy and safe festive season with your families. If you have any travel plans, make sure your destination will be a safe journey. Good luck with any new endeavours in 2020!
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