Posted by Anita
Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:02:00 GMT
We have moved into our new house on the 27th March. Our original plan was to move closer to Jacks work and get a bigger place with a bit of land. However we realised that of the three requirements we would probably have to compromise on at least one of our three requirements.
The house we ended up buying is much bigger and nicer than the one in town, and its new! Its 10 minutes drive from Jacks work which is nice. It is also 10 minutes walk from the harbor beach as well which will be fantastic in summer. So we have compromised on the section size. Only 650m2. But with some careful planning I think we will get just about everything we want in the garden. And until the sections on either side of the house are sold we have as much space as you could want.
To celebrate our new abode we had a little housewarming. We couldn’t have picked a day with worse weather for a barbecue. Wind and rain a plenty. About 35 people braved the weather and there was so much yummy food!! Even with that many people in the house it didn’t feel too crowded.
Lua behaved admirably. Unfortunately she had decided against an afternoon sleep so she was pretty tired when the barbie started but it was just so exciting to have a bunch of babies round to play and heaps of adults to shower her with attention she didn’t really want to sleep at all. I manged to get her to have a sanity-saving nap at about 6pm but that only lasted about half an hour and she was ready to go again. The only problem with her being so tired and wired is that she must be within touching distance of mummy AT ALL TIMES! Which makes being a good hostess quite difficult at times. And it’s a little embarrassing if anyone else wants a cuddle. All in all though I think she did extremely well.
Can’t wait for the next party. By he looks off all the food we have left over it will have to be tomorrow!
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Posted by Anita
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:57:00 GMT
As a result of some soul searching after our trip to Laos Jack and I decided to add to our little family. Lua was born on the 19th of August 2008 in Whangarei. She was 8lb 15oz. From the moment she was born she has enchanted and delighted us.
Straight away we noticed that she was very aware and was able to focus on faces. She was also very strong and able to hold her head up well.
For 8 months now she has grown well and passed all the milestones she should and become a real little personality. Her cheeky little grin makes me smile no matter how grumpy I am. She is mobile now and gets into everything. One tooth has made an appearance but no sign of the others yet.
Its amazing how much a difference 8 short months makes. Even her hair has changed colour!
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Posted by Anita
Sat, 27 May 2006 05:31:00 GMT
Jack and I have just had a week long holiday. The timing couldn’t really have been better. Jack had just finished a shut-down at the refinery, for which he had to work quite long hours, and I had am only a week away from finishing my placement at northland pathology. I think somewhere along the line we managed to anger the holiday gods because the first thing that happened was that Jack got sick. Not life-or-death sick, but sick enough to make him fairly unhappy about it all. Well we had planned to visit my family in Tauranga and if Jack was going to be sick, it might as well be there.
On the way we stopped off at a place called Miranda. If you haven’t heard of it don’t worry I don’t imagine you are the only one. Miranda is located in the firth of Thames and has an interesting shoreline. It is comprised of an extensive shell bank, also known as a chenier plain. Interestingly there are very few places in the world with this type of geology and it makes it a very attractive place for shore birds to come and nest.
There is a little hut that you can walk out to and hide so you can watch these birds coming in with the tide.
As you can see the first day of our holiday wasn’t all bad, although it had already been raining quite a bit.
It turned out that our visit to Tauranga was a timely one indeed. We managed to turn up the day before the little brothers birthday feast. I know I’m a terrible sister for not knowing Seans birthday. Every year I think its on the 30th and every year Im about 10 days out. Luckily at 16 Sean feels that he’s grown out of birthay presents.Unfortunatly at 24 I haven’t - still its better late than never isn’t it? It really was a bit of a treat to turn up home and have both grandparents an aunt and a cousin show up for a delicious roast dinner. Also it was great to see how the farm that Mum and Dad are leasing from Grandma was coming along. Its especially cool to be able to check up on the flaxes I helped plant. It certainly seems they’ve got their hands full with cows, steer, the rogue bull and the complaints department. Poor dad is being haunted by the foghorn, (whom I secretly refer to as Foghorn-Leghorn. Isay, Isay, boy!)a steer who bellows at him the moment he sees him, even if he is up the other end of the valley.
During our stay the weather progressively worsened with a heavy rain warning being issued on our last day.
We left on Thursday to go over the Kaimai ranges to Hamilton to see Jacks sister Alison and her little bundle of joy Fergus. About 2/3 the way up the Kaimais is a fantastic park that I always love to stop in to see, called McLarens Falls Park.
In autumn it is even more fantastic as many of the trees explode with colour.
Here we got a little complacent. As it hadn’t rained too much for a while we went for a little walk around only to be caught in the rain and have to run back dripping and puffing to the car.
Eventualy we got to Hamilton, we had even dried off by then. There we had a lovely time Hnging out with Alison and fussing over Fergus (who just happens to be sooo cute).
Later that night Maxine and Doug arrived for a visit(Jacks parents), back in the country after a week in the bright lights of Sydney.
Then the next day we were off again, this time in the direction of home. We stopped for the night in auckland to catch a show that was a part of the comedy festival, “From India With Love”.
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Posted by Anita
Sat, 08 Apr 2006 09:09:00 GMT
For quite some time I have been threatening certain people (you know who you are) with the fact that, I yes I, am capable of mass communication on a possible scale that could not have been imagined at the time of my birth. MMWAHAHA threatening laughter. I know you will be shaking in your boots, terrified that I might actualy do it…. Rebecca this one is for you!!
HarHarHarHar you didn’t think I had it in me did you?! just goes to show what a little teamwork can do. I’d like to take this opportunity to drag Jack down with me.
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