The Rhodes Family hosted an amazing Mid-Winter Christmas Party yesterday,complete with a ham, smoked lamb and all the trimmings! The kids had anamazing time, they really enjoyed each other’s company and the old people ate too much, drank just the right amount of winter-cheer and …
Bob Marley has taken Louie’s place as the smallest dog in the family, he is sooo cute and is obsessed with Mum! We had a great day out at the farm with Freya last Monday;
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I need something to keep me in my chair, so when I sit down I actually stay sitting down (I find this very hard to do!). So next time you see this pile of wool, it will be around my neck in a fabulous scarf, …
The weather was so bad last week and over the weekend that we saw a quick break from the showers and took a walk along the new boardwalk in Browns Bay;
This is my own personal name and shame post, except of course I am only going to shame myself, but then I am going to set my egg timer for 20 min and there will be a minor picking-up frenzy and then my house will …
I passed my exams. I am quite floored. I logged into the university website, clicked on exam results, and there it was a ‘B’ for Intermediate Financial Accounting! This exam was so horrid I was sure I was doomed to fail, but like Managerial Finance before it, I somehow squeaked through. It was a semester of lazy study habits, our trip to Tonga in the middle of it, and the usual last-minute rush to get assignments in on time, but we did it. ‘We’ because my whole family is part of this degree, my ever-patient husband, Ethan – who thinks studying is cool and who understands when mummy disappears to the library and Daddy takes over, my Mum who does anything she can to help including taking Ethan to work with her!, my Dad for letting Dave take off work whenever I needed the extra cramming time, other-one-Nana for coming over to watch Ethan for me and my friends who seem to understand when I disappear for weeks on time; anyway, thank you to all, I love and appreciate every one of you!
And on that note, Happy 4th of July!!! Dave and I are off to Priscilla Queen of the Desert the musical tonight, to listen to Hadyn blow his trombone in the band so I will endeavour to find my american husband a bar that sells Bud. xxxxxx
