September 18th, 2008 Impulse shopping – I purchased this wooden railway for Ethan for no other reason than it was on sale. I know, I know……it came with a wooden storage box ON WHEELS YA’LL! September 18th, 2007 A super fun play date with Freya at the beach. They were SO little! They had already been married for a year …
Mommy play dates? What's your experience with mom dating?
I am happy to report that I have had many successful and ongoing playdates here in New Zealand. The kids become long term friends (see here) and us Mums become long term drinking buddies as well. Everyone goes home happy. When we lived in Southern California we had lots of friends. Lots of single, childless, surfing, skating, imbibing-type friends – …
Stuff White People Like #126 Vespa Scooters
I may not drive a Prius (though I would if Toyota needed me to test drive one for a year or so!) and my car does not run on recycled vegetable oil, but I can say that I have been the proud owner of a motor scooter. As the astute observers at SWPL have noted, I am a stereotypical white person …
Wow, 8yrs ago!
Nate must have been dredging his archives because he came up with his blog from 2001, and look at young me! I was 22! Wow. On the eve of my thirtieth birthday it is nice to be reminded of how long I have known Nate and Julzy. Back then things were obviously very different; I was dating Nathan, Julz was (and …
Off home – Thank goodness
Dave and I looked at each other when we got Ethan inside and said "Ok, what happens now?"….it was quite funny! Nana Vicki flew out from Florida to spend the first week with us which was a big help; Beautiful sleeping child. Our first visitors! Jo and John stopped in on their way home from London – Ethan was 3 …
And then there were three!
Enough was enough, one HOT curry and it was all action stations. Ethan arrived 3 days early thanks to Siamese Basil (the Thai Restaurant on Coast Hwy). We had a great time in the delivery room waiting for little man. Chrissy and Miguel spent the day with us and we watched movies and laughed and Miguel our mexican flatmate finally …
And then there was some news….
After a busy couple of months, surfing heaps, snowboarding and skateboarding, Chrissy came home from work one day, out of the blue with a pregnancy test. She said "you’re pregnant, now prove it" or some such thing. I hadn’t at this point even stopped to consider I might be preggers! but she was right and I was soon frantically making …
The Engagement
So Dave proposed on the cliff overlooking D St on New Years Day, 2004. Wedding plans were begun, everyone was excited, alas Bush and I discovered we just weren’t the wedding-planning-type-of-girls so we never got too far along. I did buy a VERY comprehensive guide book though………and it was always on hand in times of need…..such as when a coaster …
Where it all began….
If I get a little jumbled here, it is because I am going to attempt to back-catalogue our lives up to the point below; 3rd Street, Encinitas, CA. Stay with me as things may get confusing as the old and the new are blogged perhaps, sometimes simultaneously!! I am going to file everything from pregnancy to late 2007 under the …