School holidays started earlier this week but my girls finished school 2-3 weeks ago. My 15 yo plan on alternate weeks of spending time with me and her father in Logan. This week she's in Logan until Christmas Eve then goes to Hervey Bay for two weeks to spend time with Grandma (on her father's side).
This past week my vacation care hours started. I worked for over 15 hours this week. Both days they had special guests in to educate children about indigenous culture and preparing for storms. On Friday we had water play fun! I think it may been abit too cold for some children as we didn't really have a hot sunny day. I will have another two shifts to do before the centre closes over the Christmas and New Year week.
On the other days of the week I spent time with my 17 yo as she had errands to do and business appointments to attend to. She tried to make a claim for youth allowance but sadly her eligibly was rejected as her father earns more then the quota states. On Thursday I had my full day with my 15 yo. We went to the cinema to see Hotel Transylvania 2. In the evening we went to the club with my bf (as I wasn't seeing him this weekend due to him working night shifts) for dinner and seen a free movie upstairs. The movie we seen was called Tomorrow Land.
Only 5 sleeps to go and I still need to get motivated to finished my Christmas shopping, present wrapping and post afew Christmas cards. I won't be spending much Christmas hours with my girls this year. Like always my 15 yo prefers to spend Christmas with her father's side in Hervey Bay. This is the third year she done it! Since my 17 yo has a serious relationship with her bf she will spending time with his family over the weekend. Don't worry I already got plans of my own now!! I will be away for 5 nights to spend time with my bf and his family.
All the best to everyone for a safe and Merry festive season. Safe travels and take care during the severe weather moments if it happens in your area. As far as we know we should be expecting good weather over Christmas here in SE QLD.
Sunday, 20 December 2015
Thursday, 3 December 2015
November report
Only 22 days to go until Christmas! Almost finished my present shopping but still got to my yearly newsletter and post off a handful of cards this year after I write them up.
I had a busy November with normal commitments. And recovering from a nasty flu virus vs asthma. It seems I'm getting asthma again after returning to the same environment from previous years.
My 17 yo has now graduated high school two weeks ago. The previous week she had her senior formal held at Dreamworld. She was beautifully dressed which I attended to the photo session with my boyfriend.... Yes..... I do have a man in my life now! I'm so happy to be with him on most weekends while my 15 yo stays at her father's.
My 15 yo just finished year 10 last week and she's already complaining she's bored. Typical teenager! So this week we have been at the club to dine in with friends and seen a movie with her sister and my bf this afternoon. We watched The Hunger Games, part 2 of Mocking Jay at the cinema. On Sunday night my bf and I watched Spectre at the cinema after a social game of bowing at a different centre.
My bowling league is now finished for the year. We had our break up party on last Saturday night. The night wasn't appraisable. I was happy with the prize presentation and raffle draws but not so happy with the buffet meal served. The food could of been a better quality for the priced we all paid. But all will changed in 2016 as I will join a new league at a new centre. I already been introduced as I have bowled with them socially for the last two Sunday nights. They are a friendly bunch! They even invited me to attend to their break up party next weekend.
All the best for a safe and happy festive season with your loved ones. Be safe on the roads if you have any travel destinations. Our road toll has been quite bad lately in our state.
I had a busy November with normal commitments. And recovering from a nasty flu virus vs asthma. It seems I'm getting asthma again after returning to the same environment from previous years.
My 17 yo has now graduated high school two weeks ago. The previous week she had her senior formal held at Dreamworld. She was beautifully dressed which I attended to the photo session with my boyfriend.... Yes..... I do have a man in my life now! I'm so happy to be with him on most weekends while my 15 yo stays at her father's.
My 15 yo just finished year 10 last week and she's already complaining she's bored. Typical teenager! So this week we have been at the club to dine in with friends and seen a movie with her sister and my bf this afternoon. We watched The Hunger Games, part 2 of Mocking Jay at the cinema. On Sunday night my bf and I watched Spectre at the cinema after a social game of bowing at a different centre.
My bowling league is now finished for the year. We had our break up party on last Saturday night. The night wasn't appraisable. I was happy with the prize presentation and raffle draws but not so happy with the buffet meal served. The food could of been a better quality for the priced we all paid. But all will changed in 2016 as I will join a new league at a new centre. I already been introduced as I have bowled with them socially for the last two Sunday nights. They are a friendly bunch! They even invited me to attend to their break up party next weekend.
All the best for a safe and happy festive season with your loved ones. Be safe on the roads if you have any travel destinations. Our road toll has been quite bad lately in our state.
Sunday, 1 November 2015
October report
How was your month of October? It supposedly been half way into our spring season but we had summer temperatures and severe storms already. BOM has predicted good cyclones to hit our country this upcoming summer season. Going by international news I have heard some stories about what mother nature has been up in the northern hemisphere. We had a couple of minor earthquakes hit in our state too!
Had a busy month as usual with my study commitments and attending to only a couple of craft meets. Two weekends ago I had attended to our craft retreat at a resort on the Sunshine Coast. It was a good weekend and mostly worked on some craft swaps and made a lot of cards.
Back to school happened after Labour Day weekend. Pupil free day happened on 19 October which I worked almost a full day at work experience. The centre had organised two jumping castles for the kids to play in and a special guest from Reverse Garage QLD came in to educate children about being creative in arts from using recycled products.
Ten days ago our beloved neighbour's cat named Theo passed away. The cat was only 2 years old and it was quite a shocked when the owner approached us with the bad news. We don't really know what happened but we just assumed it was either a bad accident or sudden illness to take the cat's life away from everyone. I do really missed the little guy! Theo was a beloved and friendly little guy who loved most of us in our street. He would visit our house on a daily basis as he was best friends with my cat which I am sure he misses him too! My cat was sad for afew days! Theo loved to be in my car too!
My 15 yo had a near health scare last month. Two weeks ago she spotted two moles on her back. On last Thursday she had her full body scan done at a Melanoma Clinic. Luckily for her she doesn't have any skin cancer at present. Because she has very fair complexion and has a family history of melanomas, she is required to have her skin check now, every two years. Just a reminder to all parents and grandparents (who babysit) about their child/ren who have sun exposure. It might be a big deal to children now but once they are adults, the damage is done! The doctor who seen my daughter on Thursday did say it's important to look after your skin for life. Not only the sun damages your skin, it also premature your skin too!!
My 15 yo had work experience this week, worked at a doggy daycare shed. It's similar to childcare but working with small dogs. Owners bring in their dogs to be supervised for the day. Rachel had alot of interactions with the dogs and learn behaviour traits. She worked from 8:30am to 5pm and had a 2hr lunch break (that's when the dogs napped) each day.
Did you celebrate Halloween? This celebration isn't my cup of tea! I wasn't home this weekend to even know if there were any Halloween celebrations happened.
Enjoy your month of November! At the end of this month I will have a 17 yo who will be graduating high school.
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Work experience
How is everyone? Guess you are all wondering where I have been for the past two months?? Actually I have been too busy to do other things since work experience had started. In August I started my work experience at an OSHC centre. I work two afternoons a week and had four days during vacation care in September. Its going well so far!!
All I have really done for the past two months is study and more study!!! At times it can get quite stressful thinking of getting my hours up. I don't know how a lot of single parents can cope with raising a child on their own, do the damn housework, employment work and study too. I tried to have two nights a week to make up my study hours too.
We recently had school holidays for two weeks. I didn't get a lot of time with my girls due to studying and work experience. But we did get to manage to see two movies: PIXELS and PAN at the cinema. My 15 yo had her second week of school holidays at Grandma's.
Gotta go as my battery is getting low. Have a good October (well. what's left of it)
All I have really done for the past two months is study and more study!!! At times it can get quite stressful thinking of getting my hours up. I don't know how a lot of single parents can cope with raising a child on their own, do the damn housework, employment work and study too. I tried to have two nights a week to make up my study hours too.
We recently had school holidays for two weeks. I didn't get a lot of time with my girls due to studying and work experience. But we did get to manage to see two movies: PIXELS and PAN at the cinema. My 15 yo had her second week of school holidays at Grandma's.
Gotta go as my battery is getting low. Have a good October (well. what's left of it)
Monday, 27 July 2015
July report
Consider it is only four days to go until we say farewell July, we are half way into winter season we had a mixed bag of weather. Either had snow (in places where residents had seen snow since the mid 80's), rain, wind but only in the past couple of days we had lovely warm sunshine.
My neighbours moved out today so my narrow street was busy with vehicles everywhere. I had to park a four houses down after I dropped Rachel off to school this morning. The neighbours auction the house off in June but I won't say how much because you might fall off your chair!! Its sad to see them go as they are a nice family.
Earlier this month we had school holidays for two weeks. Didn't do a great deal in the first week as I had the flu but it is now doing the cycle to other family members. In the second week the girls and I caught a couple of PG movies at the cinema. My eldest girl and I seen Magic Mike 2 at the cinema. I was abit disappointed as there wasn't enough male action from the boys compared to the first movie.
Last weekend I had a cousin up from Sydney. I went out for lunch with her and her partner in the city on Sunday. They were up here for a major soccer match live for a preseason English match in Australia. On the weekend I attended to a 55th birthday dinner for a bowling friend.
That reminds me I have a couple of birthday cards to finish which I better get them done this week. I had been to a couple of craft class and days too this month. I have a couple of classes and meets this week. At least it gives me a break from studying, otherwise I would go crazy.
Speaking of studying I better get my brain back into studying tonight as I didn't get the chance to do any today. I had a busy day being online, sorting out some business affairs and my car had been booked for its 50 000km service to be done at lunchtime. All is good!
Enjoy your month of August! There are two family members who will celebrate their birthday this upcoming month.
My neighbours moved out today so my narrow street was busy with vehicles everywhere. I had to park a four houses down after I dropped Rachel off to school this morning. The neighbours auction the house off in June but I won't say how much because you might fall off your chair!! Its sad to see them go as they are a nice family.
Earlier this month we had school holidays for two weeks. Didn't do a great deal in the first week as I had the flu but it is now doing the cycle to other family members. In the second week the girls and I caught a couple of PG movies at the cinema. My eldest girl and I seen Magic Mike 2 at the cinema. I was abit disappointed as there wasn't enough male action from the boys compared to the first movie.
Last weekend I had a cousin up from Sydney. I went out for lunch with her and her partner in the city on Sunday. They were up here for a major soccer match live for a preseason English match in Australia. On the weekend I attended to a 55th birthday dinner for a bowling friend.
That reminds me I have a couple of birthday cards to finish which I better get them done this week. I had been to a couple of craft class and days too this month. I have a couple of classes and meets this week. At least it gives me a break from studying, otherwise I would go crazy.
Speaking of studying I better get my brain back into studying tonight as I didn't get the chance to do any today. I had a busy day being online, sorting out some business affairs and my car had been booked for its 50 000km service to be done at lunchtime. All is good!
Enjoy your month of August! There are two family members who will celebrate their birthday this upcoming month.
Monday, 6 July 2015
June report
WOW! Half of 2015 has now passed. How was your month? June was a busy month trying to finish off three modules for semester one. But only managed to have one module assessed so far! Also attended to a practical day for first aide. I can't believe how much energy is taken out on you when to manually perform CPR to save a person's life. Since I have completed this course I have noticed on some TV shows how wrong the act is on performing CPR to a person.
Since our annual passes for theme parks was coming to a close in June we managed to have two more visits at Dreamworld and SeaWorld. It seems its cheaper to purchase a yearly pass now as I last knew one day entry for an adult is about $90 now. It was good to have a pass to go but if I continued to go regularly it was getting too tedious. It was good for the kids as they intend to love to go on rides more!! But if you aren't a ride person it is no point on visiting theme parks all the time. Even when I was a kid I wasn't really a big fan to lots of rides. The favourite things I used to love was viewing the animals and watching the shows.
Enjoy your month of July! It's currently school holidays for us. I did have afew plans organised but it went out the window last week. My first week was mainly spent at home recovering this nasty flu virus I caught. I am now over the worse symptoms of the flu and hopefully be back to normal by the time school resumes next week.
Since our annual passes for theme parks was coming to a close in June we managed to have two more visits at Dreamworld and SeaWorld. It seems its cheaper to purchase a yearly pass now as I last knew one day entry for an adult is about $90 now. It was good to have a pass to go but if I continued to go regularly it was getting too tedious. It was good for the kids as they intend to love to go on rides more!! But if you aren't a ride person it is no point on visiting theme parks all the time. Even when I was a kid I wasn't really a big fan to lots of rides. The favourite things I used to love was viewing the animals and watching the shows.
Enjoy your month of July! It's currently school holidays for us. I did have afew plans organised but it went out the window last week. My first week was mainly spent at home recovering this nasty flu virus I caught. I am now over the worse symptoms of the flu and hopefully be back to normal by the time school resumes next week.
Monday, 1 June 2015
May report
OMG! Where did the month of May go? I can't believe its the first day of June. It's supposedly be the official start of winter but I think most areas of country already had winter hit early. I know some areas of US had bad experiences with wild weather recently. But on 1st May Brisbane had the most wettest storm afternoon in history. From 2pm (the time my Aunt's funeral started in Mackay) the first sound of thunder started and continued with heavy rain until about 7pm. Most motorists had the longest journey home that evening as a lot of roads were under water. I did have an outdoor event to attend to that night but it was proposed to Sunday afternoon.
I had a busy month as always with normal commitments to deal with. I had some run around issues to deal with my field placement. I may found a successful venue as long the college doesn't give me the run around with relevant paperwork this week.
The only highlights of the month was attending to a live football game and to attending to a Dr Who event in Brisbane. I don't watch the show religiously but I only attend to this event as my friend had spare tickets. I got to meet the main character of show very briefly and witness the question forum in the afternoon where fans of the show was allowed to ask many questions to the three actors for two hours. I found the forum was educational and learnt more about the actor's career myself.
Time to get some studying done this afternoon. I have two assessments to complete in the next 3 weeks. It's been a very long time since I last completed an assignment successfully. One assessment is a very long essay to complete. I started on this assessment last night at Maccies while waiting for my friend to show up after he played sport.
Enjoy your first season of winter or summer! I know which hemisphere I would love to be at right now.....wherever there is summer! My 14 yo child was home from school for 3 days last week as she had the winter flu cross chest infection. Can you see why I hate winter? It's not the cold temperature its all the winter viruses anyone can catch.
I had a busy month as always with normal commitments to deal with. I had some run around issues to deal with my field placement. I may found a successful venue as long the college doesn't give me the run around with relevant paperwork this week.
The only highlights of the month was attending to a live football game and to attending to a Dr Who event in Brisbane. I don't watch the show religiously but I only attend to this event as my friend had spare tickets. I got to meet the main character of show very briefly and witness the question forum in the afternoon where fans of the show was allowed to ask many questions to the three actors for two hours. I found the forum was educational and learnt more about the actor's career myself.
Time to get some studying done this afternoon. I have two assessments to complete in the next 3 weeks. It's been a very long time since I last completed an assignment successfully. One assessment is a very long essay to complete. I started on this assessment last night at Maccies while waiting for my friend to show up after he played sport.
Enjoy your first season of winter or summer! I know which hemisphere I would love to be at right now.....wherever there is summer! My 14 yo child was home from school for 3 days last week as she had the winter flu cross chest infection. Can you see why I hate winter? It's not the cold temperature its all the winter viruses anyone can catch.
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