Category: kids

Week 34/2023: Life is pain, Highness

Week of 21 August 2023 (part 1) Life is pain, Highness Anyone who says differently is selling something. I’m writing this week’s post in two parts because one part is great and one is . . . Not. Let’s get the misery out of the way first. Week 34...

Week 6/2023: Beginnings

Week of 6 February 2023 The 2023 school year begins This week Kramstable started his first year of college; the first year of his final phase of school life. My school experience has changed a lot since Kramstable started kinder in 2011. Primary school was eight very long years,...

Week 50/2022: The end of what?

Week of 12 December 2022 The end of what? I’m getting that end of year exhaustion thing that seems to strike in early December where people (or is it just me?) start to think the end of the year is looming, so there’s not much point in starting anything...

Week 14/2022: Life goes on

Week of 4 April 2022 Life goes on The challenges of last week aren’t in any hurry to ease up, so this week was about recognising that and adjusting things as I went. I’m glad I only listed four things to work on this week because I only got...

Week 48/2021: the heat is on

Week of 29 November 2021 The heat is on I think it’s fair to say that I found this week hard. I was in my workplace for four days, which is the most time in a row I’ve been in there since we moved to working from home in...

Week 24/2021: rocket man

Week of 14 June 2021 What did I want to do better this week? Last week I said I wanted to focus on sleep and just sleep. I’d been creeping my shutdown time past 10.15 and not leaving enough time to wind down before my 10.30 bedtime. With a...

20 for 2020: week 41

Week 41: Week of 5 October 2020 My 20 for 2020 list. One from the #losttrolleysofhobart series on Instagram What did I want to do better this week?Start to try out the new ideas for planning my days that I’ve been learning about. So, how did that go then?I...

20 for 2020: week 24

Week of 8 June My 20 for 2020 list. After a weekend where I put off doing any work on my uni course (thing 8) until Monday, which was a public holiday, I succeeded in not doing any work on it at all. Instead, I spent the day writing,...

19 for 2019; week 7 update

Week of 11 February 2019 Week 7 of 19 for 2019. This is going well! I should have made “update the blog at least once a week” a thing. After a big week last week, things were a lot slower this week. I watched one of the videos for...