A wee bit belated but it is still a New Year, hopefully this one won’t go as fast as the last one because that means I will be turning 30 and that makes me feel a wee bit old. Aaargh! We didn’t get a white Christmas but we did get a white New Year which was heaps of fun, seeing the fireworks with a backdrop of snow covered everything!
We have really enjoyed the last two weeks having Daniel home and have spent heaps of time doing cool stuff together - playing games, walking, sledging, dinners with friends and family, seeing Madagascar 2 (which by the way - they don’t allow under 6 year olds in the theatres over here, even for G-rated movies with an adult to Toby’s dismay!) but we managed to buy and download a (legal) copy so Toby could see it. We did a couple of day-trips as well by train.
We are off to Bettmeralp for a week soon which we are very excited about. And my school friend from New Zealand - Miriam - is going to meet up with us there! Aaah a week of snow, sledging and hopefully some skiing too at my favourite place - well I haven’t been everywhere yet - in Switzerland.
Congratulation to Jono and Anna (brother and sister-in-law of Daniel) on baby Josiah. Born on the 1st day in 2009. So many babies being born in NZ at the moment. If I didn’t know better, I would think that our leaving NZ has made it a better place to bring up kids… Or maybe everyone is having kids in a hope to fill the deep deep hole we have left in their lives. Haha.
Well, I just made raspberry jelly (not my favourite but Toby is a fan so we have stack loads thanks to Mum and Missie) and I placed it out on the balcony and it set within an hour. Thanks to the high of -1°C we have today!
Wishing you a blessed 2009.
Who is the King? If I asked Toby that, his answer would be ‘God’, and he would be right! But I am talking about something a bit different.
