A belated farewell...

Thank you for six lovely years filled with lovely things - adventures, our wedding, camping trips in the sun, picnics at the beach, warm afternoons on the porch, sunny days under the walnut tree, many very special friends, one small boy added to our family, and our beautiful wedding (it was super fab so deserves a second mention!) :) 

Now to see what adventures lie in our new home...

A Trip to the Museum :)

There isn't a huge list of adventures we need to have before leaving our Small City next Monday...most of the adventures involve spending some time with the gorgeously wonderful friends we've made over our six years here. However, taking Jarvis to the museum was something we've wanted to do for ages, and finally got to yesterday!


Our museum has part of a huge ship stuck onto the side...after a shipwreck in 1912, a local jeweller decided he rather fancied it, and took the Wheel House home! He used it as an addition to his house, then it was left to the public in 1983, when it eventually became part of the museum. 

Jarvis told us he was driving the boat to our new home across the sea :)

Today our busy weekend continues...a few more special friends to spend some time with. I've worked out that the thing I'll miss the most about being here is the fantastic people we've met & befriended...and fortunately I know from experience that wonderful friends are still wonderful friends, despite where you live. And now we've just given them an awesome excuse to head to the mainland for a holiday!

Sorry for being AWOL...

It's rather crazy around here right now. We're shifting to a faraway land (at the top of the South Island!) in under three weeks!


Currently I'm surrounded by boxes, have a small boy who wants to scale them at every opportunity, and am hobbling around like a ninety year old (cheers, pregnancy ailments)! 


Hopefully a proper post will emerge sometime soon, 'til then please send good packing and cleaning vibes my way :)

Wintery Adventures

Whilst I pottered around the house yesterday (very slowly, kind of like a hippo with a broken leg...), Shane and Jarvis went on an adventure down the driveway to see what was going on in the vineyard and the land beyond...

Jack Frost!

Jack Frost;

James K Baxter (The Tree House)

Look out, look out,

Jack Frost's about!

He'll nip your ears

And bite your snout!

He'll chap your knees

And make you sneeze;

Your fingers and

Your toes he'll freeze.

His magic makes

The mountains grow;

He learnt it from

His mother, Snow.

Yet he makes tiny

Glittering fronts

On window panes,

And ice on ponds.

When out of school

We dance and skip

He's waiting there

To pinch and nip.

Beware! Beware!

Leave nothing bare

When Jack Frost whistles

Through the air. 

A wee collage...

So I rather like the little collage I just put together of my increasing puku... I thought I might share it with you lovelies!

29 Weeks...

A bit of a dark self portrait - will get my lovely husband to take a better photo of me this weekend, but I thought I'd better post something of an update as I haven't in a while!

My body isn't quite holding up the way it did with Jarvis's pregnancy - I feel like a giant sausage today, with tubey grip holding my tummy muscles in place, and a smiley belt taking some of the weight of my bump! The physio has forbidden me to do such everyday activities as leaping out of bed to tuck Jarvis in if he wakes up at 3am (thank you, lovely husband..you're a star!), picking up said small boy from the ground, and carting about big bags of groceries (the wheelbarrow is a seriously awesome accessory...). 

Fortunately aside from those little issues, I feel pretty good - and I only have ten weeks to go!!!

Picture - 29+4 :)