Hey babe
I mean so well, to do more on this, but
alas you are having to put up with my slow-snail-like pace!
A few catch-up things – some to get you
excited about our chat over the weekend I’m hoping!
Wondering if you have done this supper club
thing? It’s a book written by some
women in England and it is gorgeous but the idea is underground dining – a
little bit black market but really fun!
Have you heard of it? We
should do it if suits when I happen to pop myself over the many seas!
Girls both doing well at piano. K going to
do an exam in Nov, grade one. Wowzers! They get up each am and practice around
6:45, alternating with practicing or getting ready for school and then
swapping. Liv is very good at
reading the notes, she has a brain for picking that up. Very proud. I’m worried she might know notes better
than her sis who has been learning a year longer!
Been loving the autumn leaves. My camera skills don’t do it justice
but the colours are so vibrant esp when the sun is shining through the
leaves. I think I first noticed
autumn leaves when I was still living in Raumati. Life was hard for a few years there and I remember noticing
them, like they were an art exhibition just for me as I travelled around the
community. Glimpses of them now
seem to make me go ahhhhh.. Do you
like them, even though it’s probably hard for you to recall being closer to
spring for you?
My vac blew up the other day. I hate having
to spend money on boring things like that. BUT when I went to napier for a 50th the other
weekend, I did buy something cute that I love: check it out!
The 50th party was really fun
and I got to go with some delicious woman and I had such fun! Hannah gets married in a few weeks and
the excitement for that is building.
The girls have new dresses etc so that’s been fun. Kaiya has a leopard print fluffy jacket
to go with her dress and she wanted high-heels. HIllarious! I’ll send photos when it all goes ahead.
My head – yip shorter and I’m loving
it. I have this new hair powder
which I’ll have to talk to you about if you have fine hair (can’t remember if
you do). You scatter the powder in
your roots and mess it up like you’ve back combed it and then you settle it
down. All day you can zhush it up again and it stays there. It’s amazing!
Funny story – Came home from work/school
etc and a playdate and we were all a bit grumpy. I was especially grumpy and
rather a rude mother (hard to believe I know). The girls were highly offended and I overheard them
whispering in the bath. I said
sorry in the end, after some time to breathe it all out. K wasn’t so responsive, she was pretty
angry at me and seemed to have made a vow to cut me out. I talked with her
about that and about the vow she had appeared to make. But liv, she was a softie, was keen to
be right with her old grumpy mumma bear and fessed up to their plan – in their
nakedness, surrounded by some bubbles, they had sketched a run-away plan! Good old Liv, she gave into her soft
heart and her need to be in relationship.
Love it, good example for me and K.
This is a guessing game we play sometimes:
(bad photos, apologies)
OK so had some thoughts about coming over
(actually for at least 1.5 years).
Wondered if I was selfish thinking of coming myself but just kept it
quite settled in my heart, thinking about it every now and then. Talked a bit to mum about it this year
and she is so keen for me to do this (she would say yes about anything I’m
sure!). She has even helped me
sort out how I would have the girls looked after etc.
Anyway – read this book – it’s her second
book all about buying a chateau in Normandy and how they’ve done it up and host
people over the summer and teach them to cook frenchy ways and shop at the
markets etc. I am in love with
this book and the whole idea.
Next thing: got a really amazing word from
Greg B the other evening, parts of it about needing to go to Europe, needing to
find what I’ve lost by going there (as it’s a romantic place (places) etc. He talked about how my character has
been jigged, how I’ve lost something I should’t have. He saw a picture of me when I was 14 and thought I needed to
go back to that time and discover the joy I had ra ra ra. I can’t recall 14
being that great and I think I have a lot of fun etc BUT I’m happy to do what
he suggests!! Anyway there is a bit more to it all but I thought how
interesting it was with the thoughts I’d been having, not sure why I’d been
having them and feeling quite quilty that I was being selfish! He talked with me about being so
responsible and that he felt I needed to be irresponsible (not in a bad way I’m
assuming, although I said was he encouraging me to get with a few French
fellas. Hilarious his answer
was!).
Check the website out if you wanna – I’d
love to do it when I come visit, we could do it together if you were keen and
it didn’t cost the earth? Most of
all, I’m most keen to come and be with you. I am dreaming/delighting in thoughts of how great that will
be. And to be with Matty of
course.
Saw some comedian talk about Piha beach,
mocking how it is such a cruisy beach to swim at. Again, I laughed at myself and how my parenting surely lacked
that day!
Girls were watching highschool musical the
other day and I heard one weeping. I came out to lounge surprised to find it
was Kaiya and surprised it wasn’t because Liv had punched her. Anyway she was crying because Troy
and Gabriella had broken up. She
was weeping. “I don’t want to grow
up mum”. She had had a huge
reaction of emotion to a fake situation but a real one for the psychy in her
life. It was a beautiful moment to
talk with her about something she is very level headed about normally. Very
matter-of-fact. She let me in on
her private world when we did a wee activity previous to that, one where she
wrote that her biggest hope is that we would get together again. She wrote that
down under 3 categories. I never
knew that, she is a very balanced wee poppet, always trying to say the right
thing where her ma and pa are concerned, so that both of us feel valued and
special! Crazy.
