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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…

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!