What an amazing, {traumatic}, and very wonderful 10 days our family has had. Baby Hippo finally arrived and we named him Nixon. We are all so in love with him, it’s hard to believe we could be so lucky. After 5 days in hospital I am loving that we are home. Nix and I are taking it easy as my …
Sunday. Mother’s Day 2013
Mother’s Day was perfection this year. Textbook even {until 1am when I finally conceded that sleeping in our bed was a battle I had lost and it was time to try semi-upright snoozing in the Lazy-Boy. Belly-too-big!). Ugh. Back to perfect Mother’s Day. There was brekkie in bed with little man, thoughtful, kind gifts of a pregnancy massage and manicure/pedicure …
Happy Mother’s Day to us!
I’m writing this on Saturday evening, the night before Mother’s Day, thinking about what it means to me this year, 7 weeks (hopefully less) away from becoming a Mama of two. I just read Ethan a chapter from his book, snuggled in my bed, Dave is now reading him a second chapter, snuggled in Ethan’s bed. They are giggling at …
2012
For the first time in years I sat on New Years Eve not wishing away the last few hours of the year past, looking eagerly for a fresh start come the first of January. 2012 was different, a very welcome breath of fresh air for our family. A good year. Tara came from San Diego and spent three perfect summer …
Happy Absent Fathers Day Dave!
Dear Dave I just wanted to let you know that even though you are on the other side of the world, stuck in that cess pool Rome, we have not forgotten it’s Father’s day. This letter may make you a little upset and homesick, because (let’s face it) who would choose to be in Rome?, but I thought you should …
THE Wedding.
That’s how I’m going to refer to Hadyn and Joanna’s wedding until the end of days because it really really was THE Wedding. Everything was amazing, beautiful, perfect, on trend and everything just worked brilliantly. When you glean tid-bits of ideas here and there over the 11-ish months of planning it’s hard to catch a glimpse of the Big Picture. …
The Wedding Invitations are here!
One of the strange co-incidences in our family’s life is that my brother and I have both picked Americans as our spouses; Dave is of course from Florida and my soon-to-be SIL Joanna is from Chicago. Hadyn and Jo are both back in Chicago now, putting the finishing touches on the wedding plans and we fly out to join them …
Gaming – The Old School Way
Dave now is able to work from home whenever his onerous schedule of meetings allow; which is great. The dogs are happy, the laundry is happy {it gets hung out} he’s happy as he doesn’t get stuck in rush hour traffic. But, he has used all of our broadband allowance, the horror! So until Wednesday, we are cruising at the …
House Update | Week 3
Things are happening! Yesterday was about as good as a Monday gets, or at least better and more calm than last Monday. We can now find our clothes, shoes and television! A good 35% {I would say} of the interior plastering and painting has been finished, our room, our lounge and office, toilet and bathroom are all freshly painted with …
A Weather Bomb
One Saturday a mighty Weather Bomb was ‘supposed’ to hit Auckland. In fact the Weather Bomb was SO big the whole North Island was under a gale warning. Oh my! I was quite sure that there would be nothing better to do during a Weather Bomb than to watch movies together and bake yummy treats. Ethan agreed, though it wasn’t …