September 4th

I am thankful for:
- My Dad
- Daniel's Dad
- Fathers everywhere
- Big Brekky at Scarborough
- Seeing a wonderful house again and putting an offer on it
- Spending time with Daniel's family in the afternoon at his pares house
- the house offer being verbally accepted
- Daniel
- God

September 3rd

I am thankful for:
- The excitement of house hunting and actually looking at properties
- Renovated Queenslanders :)
- Opportunities for 'nesting'
- Celebrating the birthdays of MIV and Jules at a lovely lunchtime barbecue
- Watching spectacular fireworks off the story bridge from an amazing vantage point on a rpivate balcony at the Bavarian Beer Cafe
- Getting through a big day
- Daniel
- God
- ZZZZzzzzz

September 2nd

I am thankful for:
- Fridays
- An interesting performance about the haka by a 'storyteller' for book week.
- The school day flying by
- The marvels of modern medical technology
- Finding out we're having a baby girl!!!
- Watching the socceroos win against Thailand (only just!) at Suncorp stadium
- Sleep
- Daniel
- God

September 1st

I am thankful for:
- The first day of Spring!
- Well-behaved students
- Kind colleagues
- The keen girls of the Firebirds Cup netball squad
- The Shailer girls having a great win against Goodna for the last round before finals
- Daniel
- God

August 31st

I am thankful for:
- House hunting online at lunchtime
- Being more than halfway through the week
- Lots of quiet time in class
- A fun netball break-up party
- Daniel
- God

August 30th

I am thankful for:
- Cruskits
- Warmer weather
- Daniel

August 29th

I am thankful for:
- the looming end of term
- friendly colleagues
- teaching my students
- their excitement at watching my tummy grow
- Daniel

August 28th

I am thankful for:
- God
- Sundays
- Beautiful sunshine (although it would have been better yesterday!)
- Daniel

August 27th

I am thankful for:
- Sleeping in
- Daniel making me coffee
- The JPC netty girls trying their best in their Grand Final and coming back from 12 goals down to only lose by 3 goals.
- Supportive netball parents
- A night in
- Relaxing with Daniel at home
- Daniel

August 26th

I am thankful for:
- 18 weeks today
- Student-Led conferences being over
- Relaxing at the staff morning tea
- Interesting conversations about personalities and leanring styles
- Fridays
- Feeling nauseous less often
- God
- Daniel

August 25th

I am thankful for:
- progress shown at before-school Maths Club
- independent work to take a few deep breaths
- A hard fought game by the Shailer girls against Wynnum (getting away with a draw)
- Falling asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow
- Daniel

August 24th

I am thankful for:
- A good netty training session in the lead up to their Grand Final
- A smooth pack-up after Day One of Studetn-Led Conferences
- Progress with process writing
- Smooth conferences and positive feedback from parents
- Daniel

August 23rd

I am thankful for:
- A slight sleep-in (no staff briefing this morning)
- My growing belly
- The excitement for the Students at the Conferences
- Daniel

August 22nd

I am thankful for:
- A new week
- Lightbulb moments in Maths
- Getting organised for Student-Led conferences this week
- An early night

August 21st

I am thankful for:
- Sundays
- Sleeping in
- Catching up with the Fannings at their house instead of Roma St Parklands (because of the rain)
- A birthday dinner for Lachlan at the Crome's
- Daniel

August 20th

I am thankful for:
- Sleeping in
- A week off netty coaching after making the GF next weekend
- Catching up with the awesome Fio and Dave at our house
- Daniel

August 19th

I am thankful for:
- The end of a super-short week!
- A lovely dinner with Jacqui, Rob, Kaely and Gary at Libertine at The Barracks, Paddington
- A great apple donut dessert at The Lark, Paddington
- Freindship and laughter
- Hearing about Kaely and Gary's South American travel plans
- Daniel

August 18th

I am thankful for:
- Time to prepare for Student-led conferences
- a small class with so many away doing recreational activities
- The start of a super-short week!
- Daniel

August 17th

I am thankful for:
- Having such a lovely sister-in-law - Happy Birthday Maria!
- Another day off!
- Relaxing
- house hunting online and dreaming about the possibilities!
- Catching up with awesome friends Julie and Rory and seeing gorgeous Laura
- watching Daniel play with Laura
- Daniel

August 16th

I am thankful for:
- a mini holiday
- going out for brekky
- Daniel having a day off
- Talking to a bank manager about options for buying a house
- Daniel

August 15th

I am thankful for:
- an extra long weekend because of Logan, JPC and EKKA holidays!
- beer can chicken
- house hunting online
- Having Karlee over for dinner at the last minute (when Daniel's pares couldn't make it)
- Daniel

August 14th

I am thankful for:
- Sundays
- relaxing
- house hunting online and getting a good idea of what Daniel and I are looking for
- Catching up with Scott and Bernie for dinner at our house
- Daniel cooking beer-can chicken for the first time
- God
- Daniel

August 13th

I am thankful for:
- a lovely brekky with the lovely MIV and Jules at Campos at James Street
- An excellent win over the top team by my JPC netty team in the Semi-final
- beautiful weather
- Daniel

August 12th

I am thankful for:
- 16 weeks
- Fridays
- Well-behaved students through a long, boring assembly
- the start of the weekend
- Daniel
- God

August 11th

I am thankful for:
- a roof over my head
- food on the table
- my health
- my friends
- my family
- Daniel
- God

August 10th

I am thankful for:
- a productive yr 5 team meeting
- Daniel

August 9th

I am thankful for:
- Being back at school
- Red nose day and raising money for SIDS research
- non-contact time for Team leader duties
- Shailer park netty training and still keeping up (just)
- Daniel

August 8th

I am thankful for:
- a day off to rest in bed
- Daniel

August 7th

I am thankful for:
- sleeping in
- going out for brekky
- Sundays
- relaxing
- house hunting online
- Daniel

August 6th

I am thankful for:
- old friends
- Troy and Caroline getting married
- the fun of photo booths
- Moloolabah
- chips and gravy
- delicious food
- Daniel driving all the way home after the wedding reception
- Daniel

August 5th

I am thankful for:
- Fridays
- Sharing food and fun at the staff morning tea
- 15 weeks
- Daniel

August 4th

I am thankful for:
- lightbulb moments fro students at before school Maths Club
- getting through Thursday's mayhem at school
- catching up with SED for dinner
- Daniel

August 3rd

I am thankful for:
- my JPC netty girls working hard at training
- Wednesdays
- the last month of Winter
- Daniel

August 2nd

I am thankful for:
- 14...feeling more comfortable
- crackers
- apples
- Daniel

August 1st

I am thankful for:
- Daniel's Birthday!
- Having the most wonderful, loving, caring, gorgeous, perfect-for-me husband!
- Daniel

July 31st

I am thankful for:
- Melbourne
- a short shopping trip for some bargains for Daniel
- a taxi to the airport
- an uneventful plane trip back to Brisvegas
- an early night
- Daniel

July 30th

I am thankful for:
- Melbourne
- Sunny weather
- Spending time with Sean and the other two 'ten Hacken' boys
- Watching Connor play basketball - what a defender!
- Sean teaching me new things about my phone
- ten-pin bowling fun
- being able to borrow Mum's car
- no driving mishaps on the crazy Melbourne roads
- Back to Fitzroy to get ready to hit Brunswick St
- Drinks and dinner with friends
- Olivia, Penny and Steve, Bri and Kyle
- More drinks back at the apartment and more gasbagging!
- Daniel

July 29th

I am thankful for:
- the opportunity to observe a leading school
- friendly staff and leaders at Silverton School
- enthusiasm from the JPC Team Leaders
- Brainstorming
- My CUE knit dress, perfect for Melbourne temperatures
- sunny weather
- a lift from a friend of Andrea to the train station
- a friendly stranger helping me buy my ticket and jump on the right train
- no hassles with getting the tram to Fitzroy and getting into Mum and Craig's apartment
- a take-away baked potato dinner from Brunswick St
- Daniel joining me in Melbourne as I was getting ready for bed
- Daniel

July 28th

I am thankful for:
- aeroplanes
- Melbourne
- being part of a leadership team
- a roof over my head
- a tasty dinner
- heaters
- the Shailer girls having a great win without me
- Daniel

July 27th

I am thankful for:
- An early mark from work to go to the Ob Dr.
- Dopplers
- Daniel

July 26th

I am thankful for:
- enthusiastic students
- a break from netty training
- being more than half way through Winter
- Daniel

July 25th

I am thankful for:
- A new week
- Telling friends exciting news
- Daniel

July 24th

I am thankful for:
- some great netty games against asome great opposition
- my retirement from competitive netball for this year
- prioritising
- Sundays
- a tired body
- Daniel

July 23rd

I am thankful for:
- Netball carnival
- Spending the weekend with some great netty girls for the Country Carnival
- a favour from JPC staff Amanda K in coaching my team
- gatorade
- knee strapping
- Daniel

July 22nd

I am thankful for:
- 13
- Fridays
- An early night
- Daniel

July 21st

I am thankful for:
- Elly's birthday
- amazing ultrasound technology
- A great Shailer win against Pine Rivers
- Daniel

July 20th

I am thankful for:
- hot water bottles
- Wednesdays
- Daniel

July 19th

I am thankful for:
- my new(ish) phone
- Daniel

July 18th

I am thankful for:
- No sign of termites at home
- Seeing my students again after three weeks - they have grown!
- A clean house
- Daniel

July 17th

I am thankful for:
- Big brekky at Scarborough
- A relaxing day
- Daniel

July 16th

I am thankful for:
- the JPC netty girls fighting hard against the top team (and only losing by 3)
- Spending time with my amazing hubby
- Daniel

July 15th

I am thankful for:
- school holidays
- the increased safety of the number 12
- Daniel