February Goal Review

• Get all my new jobs up and running - done!
• Finish sorting upstairs in the house done!
• Launch my online Dawanda shop - completely forgotten.
• Continue with Paleo and exercise - tailed off with all the work etc.
• Crossstitch and video every day - done!

Zumba

Really missing my zumba class at the moment. This is one of my favourites though.

Make it Monday - March Birthday Cards

This month, I decided to put in a little more effort and using stamps, coloured card, Gonis paint pen and relief stickers, came up with a birthday design based on my favourite xmas design.

I like the different colour adaptations and I think they look cute!

Weekly Wisdom

You can do anything but not everything.

The Saturday Update

We have had a crazy week here. I started working mornings four days per week teaching German to immigrants. It's not the course with literacy that I was expecting (so no training this weekend) and the ability spectrum is huge so it's been a challenge on one hand but brilliant to get back into the classroom on the other. Plus, we had an unannounced inspection on Thursday - my first ever!

I've been tutoring afternoons still, which I really enjoy but it does't leave me much time to catch my breath between Monday and Thursday.

Isabella and I went to the dentist - our best visit yet and I treated her to lunch afterwards. Joshua had his latest round of jabs, for which I softened him up by taking him out for breakfast.

I'm also finding my feet with my new role at the kindergarten. That has involved lots of meetings this week and it's a bigger job than I first thought but on the whole I'm enjoying it.

Looking after myself has gone out of the window a bit with no time for zumba and paleo. I'm hoping to find my balance again soon.

More of the same next week!

Links!

Important message from teachers.

Made me laugh.

Yum!

Wow!

Respect.

Of course talking on the phone is important!

100 best movies on Netflix.

Beautiful kitty.

Paleo Update

For a month I've been following a paleo diet now and I've lost a stone. For most of that month, I have felt really good and full of energy. I've also been cycling more and getting to at least one zumba class each week.

Since Monday, things have been manic here and due to the lack of time for planning and preparing meals, I've missed lunch regularly and I'm feeling terrible. There's not much you can buy ready made that fits in with paleo and today I gave in and took Isabella to the bakery for lunch.

I plan to follow paleo as much as possible - for example, I love my banana pudding breakfasts - but not be too strict with myself. I'd like to lose about another stone this year but for the moment, I'll be happy to maintain my current weight.

In the holidays I plan to follow paleo again and try to bulk prepare some meals for after that.