Today was the final day of the kids’ Christmas hols, and the end of Week 1 of 2025…. So it was a mix of trying to extend that holiday feeling and have fun with the kids, and scrambling to tick off some of my to dos so I don’t break ALL of my New Year’s resolution in Week 1!

Some tidying in the morning before kids woke up, then French toast brunch by O, violin practice, Diablo, protein rich mid afternoon snack, 4 x 40 lunges around O’s bedroom (it was too cold, and raining out!), afternoon movie with kids (Kingsmen The Secret Service), dinner and dessert, some more Diablo, then I packed the kids off to bed while I shot off a couple of job applications and started to do some CGMA studying.