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Week in Review

In an effort to ease back in to blogging, I have decided to have a go at a ‘Week in Review’ style post. I’ve had a crack at a few different styles of these over the year, Taking Stock, A Cup of Tea with Me, Weekly Wrap Up to name a few. They all have one thing in common, to get me back in the saddle writing and to be a bit of a brain dump for me.

So, without further ado, here is a wrap up of some of the interesting bits and pieces I have come across or thought about during the week. I’m not sure if anybody else will get anything from my musings, but it will be a nice record for my grandkids of the things I was reading, doing, thinking, discovering, wanting and wearing.

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Some advice about marriage for our kids

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This is a post I have been wanting to write for a while and tried to do yesterday, but I struggled with the start of school at home, juggle of working from home, kids online gymnastics and exercise classes starting, and getting all of the house stuff done (ie feeding everyone so much food, a million times a day!).  So it didn’t get finished yesterday, which means I’m ignoring my feelings of ‘I missed it and can’t post now, leaving the words to languish another year in the blog drafts folder’ and just hitting ‘publish’ on it today, a day late, instead.

Yesterday marked 17 years married for Matt and I.  It sure hasn’t been smooth sailing, the last few years have been particularly tough and we have definitely pushed the limits, but I’m proud we’ve made it this far and have created four beautiful kids and a stack of amazing memories together. Continue reading

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March Coronavirus Diary – Fealy Family Style

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Well, who would have thought at the start of 2020 that the world would be in lockdown due to Coronavirus?  Not me, that is for sure!  I thought it only right that our first month of Coronavirus craziness should be recorded here on our family blog for posterity – after all it is not very often we get to experience a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.  It’s hard to know where to start?  Maybe with some of Toby’s journal entries …… Continue reading

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Reading, learning, watching and listening

April Edition

Ooops – I missed a blog day yesterday so must get two done today!

Starting with an easy one first, my sister Beth had a special request when I said I was back blogging, she has asked  “I’d love a post about some of your favourite podcasts, good short courses etc, that would be great!” Yippeee – these are some of my favourite things so I’m excited to share and it being a long Easter weekend in Coronavirus times – I thought you all might be looking for some recommendations! Continue reading

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Taking Stock – April 2020

I’m feeling a little guilty today that I launched straight back into blogging with a bit of a soapbox post yesterday after an almost twelve month hiatus. So today, I thought it might be nice to sit down together with a cup of tea and have a bit of a catch up, ‘Taking Stock’ style. I’d love to hear what you have all been up to as well, so feel free to have a go yourself – a blank version of the questions can be found at the end of this post. I really hope everyone is staying well! Continue reading

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Weekly Wrap Up

I’ve been missing this blog.  A lot.  It has been on my mind most days, so I figured it was time to start writing again.  It was on my goals list for 2019 in the ‘fun’ section to start writing a post a week again.  Over half way through the year already so definitely time to bite the bullet.  The hardest thing, when I haven’t written for so long, is not knowing where on earth to start.  In the end, I’m making it easy and going with a short and sweet ‘list post’.  I’ve done the ‘Taking Stock’ posts in the past, but they are really long so I’ve decided to make my own ‘Weekly Wrap Up’ post.  I hope you find something interesting in it.  Feel free to share yours too – I’d love to hear it. Continue reading

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A quick catchup post

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Yep – that is so my life!  Sigh, despite my best efforts for it not to be so.  Anyway, a lovely, very wet, very quiet day today means a chance to get a blog post done, so here’s a quick catch up post.

March has been all about work, work, work for Matt and I.  A very busy few weeks of Blue Sky Produce avocado season have meant Matt has been up at five am every day and not home before 8pm most nights. Continue reading

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Taking Stock – February 2018

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Another month down already – time sure does fly by these days!  Time for a February ‘Taking Stock’ Post.  I am going to do these posts at the end of every month this year, just out of interest to see a nice summary of the year and to help me settle in to my blogging flow again!  These posts are a bit cheaty I think and get a bit long – do you guys even make it to the end?  I’m not sure if I will have time to answer all of the sections today, but I’ll give it a crack.  You are welcome to join in too, love seeing what everybody else has going on in their worlds.  I’ve pasted a blank list at the end of the post, you can share your answers in the comments, via email or social media or just in your own private notebook or journal.

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Easy Valentine’s Day Ideas

love-1356538452Xd3With Valentine’s Day coming up next week, I’ve been inspired to write a post about it.

I’m not usually a Valentine’s Day fan, but I’ve decided to make a bit more of an effort this year.  I think it is something to do with trying to slow life down a little in 2018, to spend more time focusing on the important things which are the people I love and the things I love to do.

I don’t disagree that Valentine’s Day feels a bit contrived – Matt thinks it was all invented by the greeting card industry to convince us to buy expensive flowers, cards and chocolates, but I think this is kinda missing the point.

Valentine’s Day is about love.

I like the idea of having a day to remind us to be kind, to be nice, to love the important human beings in our life, especially in today’s times of busy, busy, busy, where making a bit of extra effort often gets forgotten, or put on the too hard/too tired pile.

I think a little TLC goes a long way.  I also think that it takes effort to make marriages and family work and I’m going to use Valentine’s Day as a reminder to put some oomph in. Continue reading

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Fealy Family Highlight Reel for 2017

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Seeing as I did such a terrible job of blogging in 2017, I thought the best way to bring everybody up to speed was to do a ‘Fealy Family 2017 Highlight’s reel’ post, so here goes …..

The major events of 2017 were Matt’s Nuffield Australia scholarship travels (Matt spent a total of twelve weeks last year overseas!), my QLD Rural Women’s finalist award, a trip to Bali for the kids and I, a visit from the Brissy cousins and Jack finishing primary school and graduating as the male school dux along with receiving the instrumental music award for the year.  Pretty awesome all in all.

However, if I had to describe 2017 in one word, I think I would have to choose ‘overdone’.  It was a fantastic year, so many amazing things, but looking back we definitely overstretched ourselves and pushed our little family to the limits of what we could cope with, and to be honest, without all the help we received from our extended family – I think the wheels would have fallen off. Continue reading

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