Sunny sunny sunny… wines, beers and just basically chilling with good friends.
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I’ve not really had a lot of home time lately and when I have I’ve been so exhausted from the rest of the day. I’ve had to use the bulk of what time I’ve had to do all the boring things like tidy the house, cook and just blob to recover

But FINALLY I’ve had a bit of spare time to whip together some more Little Things kits so I’ll be popping them up over the next couple of days. I do struggle with all these ideas for kits in my head… have to start a list to get them out so I can create them with a bit of sense of order.

I wanted to share that Mike and I headed to the “winterless North” last weekend where it was blowing and gale and pouring with rain. We went to see my birth family (if you don’t know – I’m an adopted kid) as it was my birth-fathers 50th birthday.

It was so good to hang out with them but there really are no words to explain just how strange it feels to be around people who are so much like you but you don’t really know. They are so different in so many ways than my family and that just makes them even more interesting to be around. I have 3 bio-brothers who are as weird as I am…. actually weirder Mainly as they know bigger words than me.

As proof of the weirdness… I ask for a group photo and get a brother on brother lap dance routine instead. Sat up til about midnight on the friday night watching this with Daniel the eldest bio-bro…

My birth father is an artist. His medium is lithography and I am totally in awe of the detail he puts into his work… I snuck a couple of photos…

Their house is like a gallery and Mike and I spent ages just walking around and taking them all in. It was also cool to talk to some of their friends who are artists too. These people are passionate and fasinating to the point where I felt really dwarfed and didn’t really know what to say. They are equally as passionate about music and I found a fellow Imogen Heap fan of sorts so that was a wwheew moment.

Another cool thing, my birth-mother and bio-grandmother are both into scrapbooking too! They both pulled out their pages for me. I’m heading back up there in September to go to my very first scrap weekend in Kerikeri… yip it’ll be a mammoth drive.

Oh and just to end… token photo of my lil nephew… 3 months now…

Flying post…
Us ready to head out to Raglan to our old flatmate Blairs 30th birthday military themed party… it was cold but awesome. Repairing burnt bridges… it’s a very good thing.

For his 30th birthday last September I paid for Mike to drive a Holden race car at the Taupo motorsport track.
Yesterday we drove to Taupo and he slipped behind the wheel….

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He’s stoked. Lord knows it’s been a long time coming. He’s on trade me morning and night typing in that one little word “holden”. So if anyone knows a great deal it’s that boy.
She’s a 2001 Holden Statesman… the flagship he says. Full leather. She just needs little New Zealand flags flying from the front
I’m so happy for him.

We have a couple of mini breaks over the Christmas holidays but this time we took off the whole week. Well almost – Mike worked the friday and I have to work the saturday but it’s the longest break we’ve had since we went overseas last year.

We had a blast… taking photos at sunset, chilling on the beach (even sat there watching a scrub fire on the hill around the bay one night). We tented and the the fact that it’s day light savings we’d get ready to go to bed and then look at the time and it’d be 8.30! A bit of card gaming, cooking in the tent foyer, hot chocolates and easter eggs and reading mags and library books.

My fav though was the day we walked to Cathedral Cover. We stopped along the track at Gemstone Bay and went snorkelling. It was so awesome – we had a blast chasing snappers and running (swimming) away from stingrays.

We had a bit of a drama – somehow I all my daily worn jewlery… I always take it all off before I go to bed so whereever they are they are all together, my watch, my earrings and my NEW Pandora bracelet. I was gutted and cried a lot… and then rung the insurance company. We have replacement cover so I am now back in action.

Lucas came into the world at 5.52pm April 13th 2009 at 8 pound 4. Check out all that hair!

Well again I am a bad blogger.
But we have been busy. It’s stocktake season right now so by the time we get to sunday I would have done 5 stocktakes and Mike 2. My work is pretty big so we slice it into departments…on sunday it’s my departments turn so I’ve been flat out this week sorting through pens and pencils trying to get ready.
We had an up and down week last week. Mikes dad had a mild heartattack… he’s pretty secretive about it but far as we know he is doing ok. Then we had a meeting at the hospital with Mikes new cardiologist. The guy was awesome. Knew what he was talking about and we left really happy. He basically told us that the procedure Mike was to have a year ago is way too risky for number of “events” that he has. He also told us all these risks that the last guy didn’t even go near telling us, scary risks and basically for the number of times it happens he was saying “would we do it and something happen and we think – was it worth it for something that happens every 6 months?”. So the end of the story is that we are switching meds and seeing if that helps. And we’ll just wait and see… the op is an option but one we only wanna go to if we really really have to and that might happen later in life.

Meantime it’s definatly heading towards winter. The temp when down this morning and when I left to go to work all 3 cats were on the bed and having no ideas of heading out… tarts.

We had the weekend off and had a double up of events. The Beach Hop was on and as much as Mike wanted to go we also had his best friends 30th birthday party in Palmerston North. You can’t turn down a best friend. So we drove the 4 hours to Palmy and hung out with Blair and his fiancee Lynda, caught up with Lloyd for the first time in 2 years and met his bride to be Sarany and spent the night at Blairs mum Lynns place. She moved to Palmy now after Pete passed away I guess Whitianga wasn’t the same especailly with the rest of the family far away. Shes a top ladyand it was awesome to see her gorgeous new home.


No much else to report. Might see the family this weekend. It was my mamas birthday yesterday. We are also expecting my brothers lil boyto be born any day now so we’ll be Uncle and Aunty soon.

Ohand I better post this so mum can see. Today we had a bit of a celeb in store signing his new book. Kelvin Cruickshank is a medium who has been getting more and more known and been on TV etc. His dad used to come out the farm and dose the dogs back in the day Claim to fame haha.