It was a beautiful morning to ride in – no wind and no clouds. I could see Orion halfway up the eastern horizon and felt sure summer was on its way! Heheheheh. I left the boys fast asleep this morning so I hope they are on schedule.


By the way, we don ’t have a land line phone at the moment. If you ring it ’ll just ring off the hook. We had some DIY issues which meant we also don ’t have any cable TV. The end of our coaxial cable is now part of the wall linings in the stairwell. I told Mike it looked like it might fit through the gib crack at the end and it might just need a sharp tug. Well, the cable came through but the end stayed where it was wedged into the gib.

I need some Weetbix and a cup of tea.

Mike and Toby enjoyed their McDonalds dinner last night while I did the release (which went well apart from Los Angeles which still hasn ’t picked up the new data – I sense a major hassle with that today). Toby is also sleeping very well now. Although Mike did his best to ruin my sleep last night. I was almost asleep when he came to bed (after creating a bigger hole in the stairwell gib where the TV and phone cables are located!) and he said we should watched the first 30 mins or so of this movie called Cloverfield. We had no idea what it was about. After the first 20 mins or so I was ready to turn it off. It was like Blair Witch Project in it was all amateur video footage of a party, but then the fun kicked in and I was scared stiff by the time the movie finished. So I lay there for a few more minutes that necessary when I should have been asleep 80 minutes before!

I ’m hungry!

Ok – I admit it. I am soft. I did not ride my bike because the weather forecast at 6.02 this morning said it was 2 C and a high of 8C with southerly gales. So I hopped up and watched the end of the Wimbledon men ’s singles final instead, and made lunches between games. When I pulled back the curtains at about 7.30, I was astonished to see a calm beautiful morning. I was really wondering why I wasn ’t on my bike.

Toby was very pleased to be going to KidsCo for his school holidays. He was the first child there at 8am, and was pretty chuffed. Mike and I drove into work (uh oh) and we were there by 8.20. So it all went ok. We even drove past Josh at the bus stop so he hopped in and we took him in too.

The weekend went well. Friday night was a pleasant time for me at the Tabor household. Aidan and I chatted for ages. Duncan and Emerson collapsed into bed at 7.30pm and were asleep in two seconds. Toby watched kids videos till I went home. Mike got home quite early from his leaving drinks.

Saturday was fun. Andrew came round to help Mike with DIY stuff. Toby and I mucked around all day (I have planted my compost bin in a nice sunny corner so I have started making compost for my vege patch) with Toby mainly playing his DS Lite. The rugby was on that evening so we watched that. It was a good game. Andre rode his bike home in the southerly gale (he ’s mad and not a bit soft).

Sunday was more DIY stuff (the plasterer is at our house today – we ’re under pressure to get the room done for visitors in August!) and a Sunday lunch at Sally and Andrew ’s house. We need to buy Andrew ’s present today at lunch time (at least we know what to get now).

Back at work. Mike is off looking at the servers in the server room. How exciting for him!

Good morning on Thurs, Oct 11, 2007 (from the archives)

Well, Mike is working from home today in an effort to get some new work off the ground. So, I left the boys having a leisurely breakfast to catch my bus. Last night Toby was superb. Mike went out at 1900 to a tramping club meeting (without Kara who had cooked up dinner and didn ’t want it ruined!) so I put Toby to bed. He was no bother, and slept all night. Ah – it is nice having uninterrupted sleep.

Tonight we ’re off to Lower Hutt to go shopping. Toby needs some shoes and we have a shoebox for children who might not get any presents somewhere in the world at Christmas, to fill up with new toys. The sheet that comes with the shoebox is very useful. You have to choose one thing from each category (something a child can love (teddy), something to play with (cars), something for hygiene (toothbrush), something else I can ’t remember) and cram it in the box. We have chosen to get something for a 2 – 4 year old boy. You can also put in a note or a photo but I think we will not get around to that. It is due back at work tomorrow. You put in $7 for postage. I ’m looking forward to shopping with Toby for it.

The weather is wet, wet, wet. But no wind. Very grey.

I love Alison Holst

Good morning on Wed, 5 Sep (archive)

 Hi there,

 

A wonderful morning.  But freezing cold.  Bit of a cold snap here, with southerlies and a bit of fresh wind.  It might even dump a bit of snow on the hills!

 

Mike dropped me and Toby off at Mojos, and we both had hot chocolates to keep us warm.  We brushed our teeth and then took a long walk to Toby's kindy.  We went through the park, with the "Dinosaur Cave" and the "Ghost Cave" at the start of the adventure, and a lovely pond for picnics at the other end.  A nice place for eating after we collect Toby in the summer, on the way home.

 

When I dropped him off, he showed me the new batch of books the kindy has got in recently.  So I promised to read him one tonight when I collect him.  I'm looking forward to it already.

 

Lots of love,

Angela

Good Morning on Tuesday 4 September (archive)

Hi,

We missed a day!  Who noticed?  Karen certainly did, she was worried that Toby was sick or something.  Well, nope, just that Angela is on a course this week and can't email.  And that means that she can take Toby in in the mornings!  She even sent a good morning by text message to me: "Toby and I have had a good morning.  We caught the 8:12 bus and it was broken so crawled to Thorndon [where Toby's kindy is].  Off to my course now."

We caught up with my mum and dad for dinner last night, which was very pleasant.  Toby had a great time playing games with them and telling them all about his day and all the things he'd been doing.  He needs to see them much more often than a couple of days every six months!  And now we have curtains in our bedroom, thanks to my mum.  We put them up last night and it was so nice and dark.  I didn't realise how light it was before.

Last night was very, very windy.  Even for Wellington it was very very windy!!  On the way home, the car was being blown about like a leaf - even stopped at the lights it was swaying and lifting up off its suspension.  And because we are missing some window catches, we had lots of banging windows.  We sorted it out in the end with a combination of towels draped in the windows, and pushing one window wide open so it jammed.

But, Toby got scared and came up to our bed at about 11pm.  Fair enough.  It was very windy and noisy!!  'Like a ghost,' said Toby in the morning.  That meant that we had nice cuddles in the morning before we all got up. 

I took Toby in this morning, because Angela had to go to work before her course.  Shame for her.  We had fun because Toby's fleece jacket was covered in lint, so I got out the lint remover thing.  Toby loved it.  It tickled!  He even took it in the car with him, and he made sure my jumper was lint free (don't think it worked too well but we had a good time trying).

 
He was sad going down the hill, though, because his CD wasn't in the car.  Angela has made a CD of all the music that he likes and we like.  He loves it!  But he went to sleep listening to it, and it's still in his CD player.  I'll need to make another copy of it.

Toby had brought his light sabre in the car, so we played 'Luke puts bruises on Darth Vader's hands' in Thorndon school, and then we bumped into Sean and Paige and their dad walking to Kindy.  So we walked with them, and their Dad broke into the kindy playground (we were a bit early) so we played there for a few minutes.  It started to rain so the kids sheltered under their big fort, and we got wet.

I managed to get Toby's light sabre off him without too much fuss, and off I headed to work.  Now I've got a yummy indian lunch to re-heat, courtesy of Angela's colleague Hasmita!

Mike xx

Good morning on June 19, Tuesday - karate night (archives)

Hi,

Well, we drove in with the MRG this morning, and Toby was very happy.  We got a park at the Beehive (thanks Uncle Andrew), and we’re ready for the 1700 exodus to Johnsonville for karate.  We walked up to Sally’s café and had a hot chocolate with her.  Then we wandered to Toby’s kindy.  I found his two missing tops (only knew of one missing top, but now I have found two) and he was happy to be playing with the young children when I left him.

 

I topped up Mike’s cellphone on the way to work, and hope he can get a charger as well!

 

So, tonight’s plan is this.  I leave work at 1645, pick up the MRG at 1700, Toby at 1705 and off to karate.  If anyone wants to get picked up then to come along, just be in those places…  If anyone wants a lift on the way back from J’ville to Woburn, let me know.

 

I’ll get Toby McDs at Jville, so if that’s an option anyone else wants, they will have to ask.  Otherwise, the rice and mince will become chilli con carne (if I’m lucky and can figure out a decent recipe).

 

Time for a nice cup of tea.

 

Cheers,