Hi,
Well, nothing much for me and Toby. I rode home to collect wee Toby and we ate a nice dinner and I finally finished the Christmas blog and we went to bed. Pretty much it. Mike went from work to tramping club and rode home for the first time in weeks! I think he remembered that he liked it.
It is so wet here this morning. We drove in because I have the user group session tonight and Mike is coming for the first time in ages (a week of firsts for Mike obviously). Benjamin will look after Toby for a few hours tonight. But despite driving I still got wet. My feet feel damp and my trousers are damp. Should be dry by, oh, maybe around about 3pm! Hahahah.
Have a wonderful day! Stay dry if you're in Wellington!
Love,
Angela
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The Tuesday with nothing
Hi,
Mike had a tramping club celebratory dinner last night after work so I rode home and collected Toby from Skids (like old times) and we walked back home from Wadestown School, same as it ever was. It was nice. Just as it is nice to recall taking him to daycare on the bus in Thorndon when he was four.
Toby and I ate dinner and then he watched TV while I caught up with homework. Homework for Cubs. Homework I should have done over Easter but procrastinated. All done (well, almost all done).
To bed and read for a bit until Mike came home just before 9pm. We chatted for a bit and he did a bit of homework too.
Toby had rock climbing for Skids yesterday. Says it went quite well. He got to the top the first time, but the second time he found a big gap and couldn't get around it. Heheheh. Yep - I know how that feels!
Mike may be coming down with my cold now. Oops. I told him not to kiss me, but he didn't listen. In fact, I think he upped the kissing routine to get greater immunity. Or so he told me!
Have a wonderful day!
Love,
Angela
Mike had a tramping club celebratory dinner last night after work so I rode home and collected Toby from Skids (like old times) and we walked back home from Wadestown School, same as it ever was. It was nice. Just as it is nice to recall taking him to daycare on the bus in Thorndon when he was four.
Toby and I ate dinner and then he watched TV while I caught up with homework. Homework for Cubs. Homework I should have done over Easter but procrastinated. All done (well, almost all done).
To bed and read for a bit until Mike came home just before 9pm. We chatted for a bit and he did a bit of homework too.
Toby had rock climbing for Skids yesterday. Says it went quite well. He got to the top the first time, but the second time he found a big gap and couldn't get around it. Heheheh. Yep - I know how that feels!
Mike may be coming down with my cold now. Oops. I told him not to kiss me, but he didn't listen. In fact, I think he upped the kissing routine to get greater immunity. Or so he told me!
Have a wonderful day!
Love,
Angela
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The Easter with nothing
Hi,
What a great way to spend your Easter. At home, with nothing planned. Wow! What a novelty. And to top it all off, the weather was fantastic. After the doom and gloom of the forecast for Easter in the week leading up to it too. Hahah.
Good Friday saw us tidying up around the house. Toby had a sleepover with Alex on Thursday night and we didn't see him until late Friday. We wandered around to Vivienne and John's place for tea and Mike stayed late drinking red wine with his sister and brother-in-law. Well, so did Toby and I! Except for the drinking bit.
Next morning was a bit seedy for Mike. But I got him showered and in the car for the drive up to Waikawa beach to see a work colleague. Adam has a section there and was giving it the annual mow and we ate a nice picnic lunch (bought from the heaving Waikanae supermarket) and wandered down to the beach for a bit.
Back in the car around 3pm to Waikanae to visit the Tabors. They invited us to stay for tea so we obliged them. They cook great food, so if you ever get the invitation, take them up on it! Yummy barbequed kebabs! Home to collapse into bed.
Sunday morning off to church with Toby and Christine and Tom. This was mainly to rectify the emotional damage done by the last sermon Toby heard. We attended the earthquake safe Anglican church on the corner of Pitt St (I wanted the Presbyterian one but it turns out it needs earthquake strengthening so Christine saw that as a good sign we'd chosen the right church). The minister was a lovely woman and the kids loved the family service.
Home to get ready to go to family lunch at Sally and Andrew's place. Not via the supermarket as it was shut for Easter Sunday. The confusing directions I gave Mike meant we fortunately drove right past La Cloche - open for Easter trading. Got lots of baguettes and yummy cheese and off to lunch! Lunch was great! Seeing everyone was wonderful. There were loads of people there so I hardly got around everyone to say hello. The weather was lovely again. How boring. Hahahahah. Christine and John arrived after lunch with Tom for an Easter Egg hunt. Col, Mike and I had hidden about 30 eggs around the garden. Col was especially good at hiding them because she got a load well after the kids had gone through hunting for them!
Monday was a stay-at-home day (apart from some grocery shopping for me). We tidied some more and Mike worked on tramping club stuff while I read lots. Will came over for a play date so Toby was very happy.
Back to work now. I seem to have caught yet another cold. I am hoping I fight this off super fast - it feels exactly like the last one I had a month ago! I can either blame Aidan T or Mike's mother for this one I think. I like to know the provenance of any cold I get. Somehow it makes it more satisfying to determine its possible origin!
Have a wonderful (short) week!
Love,
Angela
What a great way to spend your Easter. At home, with nothing planned. Wow! What a novelty. And to top it all off, the weather was fantastic. After the doom and gloom of the forecast for Easter in the week leading up to it too. Hahah.
Good Friday saw us tidying up around the house. Toby had a sleepover with Alex on Thursday night and we didn't see him until late Friday. We wandered around to Vivienne and John's place for tea and Mike stayed late drinking red wine with his sister and brother-in-law. Well, so did Toby and I! Except for the drinking bit.
Next morning was a bit seedy for Mike. But I got him showered and in the car for the drive up to Waikawa beach to see a work colleague. Adam has a section there and was giving it the annual mow and we ate a nice picnic lunch (bought from the heaving Waikanae supermarket) and wandered down to the beach for a bit.
Back in the car around 3pm to Waikanae to visit the Tabors. They invited us to stay for tea so we obliged them. They cook great food, so if you ever get the invitation, take them up on it! Yummy barbequed kebabs! Home to collapse into bed.
Sunday morning off to church with Toby and Christine and Tom. This was mainly to rectify the emotional damage done by the last sermon Toby heard. We attended the earthquake safe Anglican church on the corner of Pitt St (I wanted the Presbyterian one but it turns out it needs earthquake strengthening so Christine saw that as a good sign we'd chosen the right church). The minister was a lovely woman and the kids loved the family service.
Home to get ready to go to family lunch at Sally and Andrew's place. Not via the supermarket as it was shut for Easter Sunday. The confusing directions I gave Mike meant we fortunately drove right past La Cloche - open for Easter trading. Got lots of baguettes and yummy cheese and off to lunch! Lunch was great! Seeing everyone was wonderful. There were loads of people there so I hardly got around everyone to say hello. The weather was lovely again. How boring. Hahahahah. Christine and John arrived after lunch with Tom for an Easter Egg hunt. Col, Mike and I had hidden about 30 eggs around the garden. Col was especially good at hiding them because she got a load well after the kids had gone through hunting for them!
Monday was a stay-at-home day (apart from some grocery shopping for me). We tidied some more and Mike worked on tramping club stuff while I read lots. Will came over for a play date so Toby was very happy.
Back to work now. I seem to have caught yet another cold. I am hoping I fight this off super fast - it feels exactly like the last one I had a month ago! I can either blame Aidan T or Mike's mother for this one I think. I like to know the provenance of any cold I get. Somehow it makes it more satisfying to determine its possible origin!
Have a wonderful (short) week!
Love,
Angela
Thursday, April 5, 2012
The Wednesday with no karate
Hi,
Wednesday was slightly damp. Got wet riding in and got wet riding home. But not soaked! Yay! I did have a very nice cup of tea (okay - I had a hot chocolate) with Aidan T in the morning. I hadn't seen her for what seemed like ages so we chatted away for quite a bit.
As I was preparing to ride up to karate after work, I got a phone call from Mike at home saying Toby was having a night off from karate. Okay. Rode home and had dinner with the boys instead. Very nice to have nothing to do.
Today is the last working day of the week. The sun is shining! What a marvellous day!
Have a great Easter! Eat a lot of chocolate (but not too much - that would spoil it).
Love,
Angela
Wednesday was slightly damp. Got wet riding in and got wet riding home. But not soaked! Yay! I did have a very nice cup of tea (okay - I had a hot chocolate) with Aidan T in the morning. I hadn't seen her for what seemed like ages so we chatted away for quite a bit.
As I was preparing to ride up to karate after work, I got a phone call from Mike at home saying Toby was having a night off from karate. Okay. Rode home and had dinner with the boys instead. Very nice to have nothing to do.
Today is the last working day of the week. The sun is shining! What a marvellous day!
Have a great Easter! Eat a lot of chocolate (but not too much - that would spoil it).
Love,
Angela
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The Tuesday with the last day of Cubs for the term
Hi,
I rode home to sort out pre-Cubs stuff and enjoyed the ride. The weather has turned to a southerly but last night it was still pretty calm. The rain that soaked me was coming straight down. Vertical rain. I always like vertical rain in Wellington for the novelty value.
Mike's mother had sorted out tea for Toby and all I had to do was eat myself and get us into Cubs gear. Then we were off with Jack to Cubs. What a full-on evening and it all went very well. I was in the kitchen and made two batches of truffles. The Cubs rolled them into balls and in coconut and were very happy with their truffles.
Baloo (Jo) took them through egg decorating which sounded a bit more fraught. They had to pierce the egg and blow out the contents. Seems like a lot of egg smashing went on!
That was followed by an Easter Egg hunt which was well received! Then we invested two Cubs and Baloo and gave out a gold whero and a home help badge. Great end of the term!
Mike was out for a work function and it sounds like they were on the winning team until the last round where they plummeted to fourth place. Pants for them!
This morning (Wednesday) is rather damp. It still doesn't seem too cold despite the forecast galeforce southerlies. Brrr. Maybe it is gathering force in the Cook Strait still? I got a bit wet coming in, but nothing too alarming. My hair may dry into a funny hairdo though.
Short working week this week! Good Friday. Very nice. Hot cross buns bought and ready to go!
Have a wonderful day!
Love,
Angela
I rode home to sort out pre-Cubs stuff and enjoyed the ride. The weather has turned to a southerly but last night it was still pretty calm. The rain that soaked me was coming straight down. Vertical rain. I always like vertical rain in Wellington for the novelty value.
Mike's mother had sorted out tea for Toby and all I had to do was eat myself and get us into Cubs gear. Then we were off with Jack to Cubs. What a full-on evening and it all went very well. I was in the kitchen and made two batches of truffles. The Cubs rolled them into balls and in coconut and were very happy with their truffles.
Baloo (Jo) took them through egg decorating which sounded a bit more fraught. They had to pierce the egg and blow out the contents. Seems like a lot of egg smashing went on!
That was followed by an Easter Egg hunt which was well received! Then we invested two Cubs and Baloo and gave out a gold whero and a home help badge. Great end of the term!
Mike was out for a work function and it sounds like they were on the winning team until the last round where they plummeted to fourth place. Pants for them!
This morning (Wednesday) is rather damp. It still doesn't seem too cold despite the forecast galeforce southerlies. Brrr. Maybe it is gathering force in the Cook Strait still? I got a bit wet coming in, but nothing too alarming. My hair may dry into a funny hairdo though.
Short working week this week! Good Friday. Very nice. Hot cross buns bought and ready to go!
Have a wonderful day!
Love,
Angela
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Monday with nothing
Hi,
It was Mike's father's birthday yesterday and we got to say happy birthday to him (briefly) when he came to pick up Mike's mother from our house. With Alex's grandmother off unexpectedly early to China, Mike's mother is doing the Toby/Alex pickup. Thank goodness! Hopefully next term we get Kevin in (a previous Skids carer) to do the pickups!
I rode home yesterday in lovely conditions, except I forgot my bike shoes with cleats. I had to ride in sneakers and I don't enjoy it with the little pedals. So it was a slow ride up the hill. But I did still beat Mike home. He took the bus. I thought he'd romp in. Perhaps he was a little late leaving work compared to me, but only by a few minutes. And I beat him home by that much.
Tonight is the last Cub night for the term. Mike is at a work function (go Mike!) and we're doing three activities and investing a leader and some Cubs. My goodness. It'll be all go, go, go! Egg decorating, truffle making and Easter egg hunting. Let me guess what will generate the most excitement?
The ride in was great this morning - back to full daylight! At least for a few weeks before the winter sun means dark mornings again... And if I work late - dark rides home. My speedo is reading zero for a lot of the time at the moment. I need to fix that. It is slightly disconcerting to be hurtling down the hill, tyres whirring, eyes streaming, to glance down and see you're doing 0 km/hr. Hahahah. Must ride faster.
Have a wonderful day!
Love,
Angela
It was Mike's father's birthday yesterday and we got to say happy birthday to him (briefly) when he came to pick up Mike's mother from our house. With Alex's grandmother off unexpectedly early to China, Mike's mother is doing the Toby/Alex pickup. Thank goodness! Hopefully next term we get Kevin in (a previous Skids carer) to do the pickups!
I rode home yesterday in lovely conditions, except I forgot my bike shoes with cleats. I had to ride in sneakers and I don't enjoy it with the little pedals. So it was a slow ride up the hill. But I did still beat Mike home. He took the bus. I thought he'd romp in. Perhaps he was a little late leaving work compared to me, but only by a few minutes. And I beat him home by that much.
Tonight is the last Cub night for the term. Mike is at a work function (go Mike!) and we're doing three activities and investing a leader and some Cubs. My goodness. It'll be all go, go, go! Egg decorating, truffle making and Easter egg hunting. Let me guess what will generate the most excitement?
The ride in was great this morning - back to full daylight! At least for a few weeks before the winter sun means dark mornings again... And if I work late - dark rides home. My speedo is reading zero for a lot of the time at the moment. I need to fix that. It is slightly disconcerting to be hurtling down the hill, tyres whirring, eyes streaming, to glance down and see you're doing 0 km/hr. Hahahah. Must ride faster.
Have a wonderful day!
Love,
Angela
Monday, April 2, 2012
The weekend with tramping
Hi,
Our Friday was very pleasant - Mike and I caught the bus home together and we had dinner and packed for my tramping weekend.
Up early on Saturday and John nipped past to collect me and take me to the train station with Vivienne and Benjamin. Ta John! We hopped into the club van after meeting all the punters (well, almost all). We collected Andrew along the way in Yingjie's place and another punter called Margaret from Upper Hutt.
The tramping was great fun! The weather held out and we didn't get wet at all. Vivienne and I stopped to get out our jackets at one stage and the rain promptly stopped. We walked in about 1 kilometre to the road end as the ford was washed out and the club van might not respond well to being dropped off the ford into a big hole! We headed up a hill almost immediately and eventually had lunch on the top. After a bit of up and down along the ridge at the top we started along down part to the hut. Took at 4.5 hours into Sayers Hut and we claimed the bunks.
There was a seven year old boy there when we got there with his family bagging huts. Sayers was his 40th Tararua hut! Wow! It was my second! We got some firewood and started dinner early. I was pretty sleepy and was in bed by 8.15pm! My sleep was fitful and I heard Vivienne bang the wall and mutter "rats" at one point. Heheheh. Benjamin slept in the bivvy bag for its first use! Good on him!
Up and had my horrible breakfast! Powered milk on Weetbix. Yuck. Not having that breakfast again. One girl had boiled eggs (pre boiled) and I like that idea! We were away by 9.30am! The climb up was hard going! Phew! But once back up on the tops it was fine! At the van by 2pm and enjoying the drive back in the sunshine and with a pleasantly tired body.
Mike and Toby had fun over the weekend. Toby was just getting back from swimming and we got him dressed in his school uniform and away for the Easter service at St John's in town. Home by 8.30pm and to bed! I was asleep by the time Mike got back from dropping his mother off!
The week looms ahead - but a short one due to Easter. Toby's holidays start then too for two weeks!
Have a great week!
Love,
Angela
Our Friday was very pleasant - Mike and I caught the bus home together and we had dinner and packed for my tramping weekend.
Up early on Saturday and John nipped past to collect me and take me to the train station with Vivienne and Benjamin. Ta John! We hopped into the club van after meeting all the punters (well, almost all). We collected Andrew along the way in Yingjie's place and another punter called Margaret from Upper Hutt.
The tramping was great fun! The weather held out and we didn't get wet at all. Vivienne and I stopped to get out our jackets at one stage and the rain promptly stopped. We walked in about 1 kilometre to the road end as the ford was washed out and the club van might not respond well to being dropped off the ford into a big hole! We headed up a hill almost immediately and eventually had lunch on the top. After a bit of up and down along the ridge at the top we started along down part to the hut. Took at 4.5 hours into Sayers Hut and we claimed the bunks.
There was a seven year old boy there when we got there with his family bagging huts. Sayers was his 40th Tararua hut! Wow! It was my second! We got some firewood and started dinner early. I was pretty sleepy and was in bed by 8.15pm! My sleep was fitful and I heard Vivienne bang the wall and mutter "rats" at one point. Heheheh. Benjamin slept in the bivvy bag for its first use! Good on him!
Up and had my horrible breakfast! Powered milk on Weetbix. Yuck. Not having that breakfast again. One girl had boiled eggs (pre boiled) and I like that idea! We were away by 9.30am! The climb up was hard going! Phew! But once back up on the tops it was fine! At the van by 2pm and enjoying the drive back in the sunshine and with a pleasantly tired body.
Mike and Toby had fun over the weekend. Toby was just getting back from swimming and we got him dressed in his school uniform and away for the Easter service at St John's in town. Home by 8.30pm and to bed! I was asleep by the time Mike got back from dropping his mother off!
The week looms ahead - but a short one due to Easter. Toby's holidays start then too for two weeks!
Have a great week!
Love,
Angela
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