finally April 23, 2008

After a week of to-ing and fro-ing we have finally come to an agreement over a revised price for the land.  YAY  now the fun starts!!  planning our dream house and building it!! scary!

 

 I have been addicted to googling  strange things again…. today’s latest one was “is 14 months too young to do forward rolls?”  Yep that’s right the Young Man is now successfully doing forward rolls ( or rolly polys as we call them in NZ – do they get called that any where else?)  He thinks its the most funniest thing and if I hadn’t packed the video camera away in one of the  several thousand boxes being stored in my Mum’s garage I would have recorded it for prosperity and attempted to post it up here ( that would be a full learning experience in itself).

Other googling  that has taken place has included searching for venison recipes that include beer (long story but the Adman was very pleased with himself for catching a wild deer and decided that he wanted to cook it in beer – who know why!?) remarkably there were several recipes and the one we ended up using was a success!!

 

Home Alone April 17, 2008

For the first time since we moved in with my Mum I am home alone with the Young Man.  My mum is in Dunedin at a Conference and Adman is away working.  Its going to be just me and the boy until Sunday. 

I have been spoilt over the last few months as I had forgotten what it was like to do the dinner – bed shift with the Young Man by your self.  Luckily he was in a fairly good mood so it wasn’t too bad.

I had plans that once the Young Man went to bed I would have some tea and then get on my newly hired exercycle for half an hour or so.  That was until I opened the fridge and saw that Adman had made me some nibbles ( carrots and celery and dip) and I spied some cadbury’s fruit and nut choc at the back as well.  For about 1/4 of a second I thought well I could eat that stuff and then ride the bike.  But the little devil on my left shoulder who I seem to listen to far too much told me there would be no point and I should just enjoy my night and do the biking tomorrow.   So that is now the plan.

In much more exciting news there are now 4 women at work who are pregnant.  I am worried that there must be something in the water and I hope that I am not number five!!  As much as we would like to have more children its just not something we can consider at the moment.  And I also have this thing where I only want one child at a time in nappies.  At the moment our plan for child numero deux is waiting  until the Young Man is about 2 1/2 before we start trying.  Of course if something happened before that we would deal with it and be happy.    As much as we like to think that we can plan these things sometimes you just never know.

TGIF April 11, 2008

Life seems to have been getting on top of me lately.   The last two weeks have sped by in the blink of an eye.   Although the purchase of our land is going through several problems have arisen around it.  Basically due to the unstable nature of the land ( which we were assured wasn’t the case) and the size of the power cables needed to be upgraded (despite what we were told – see the theme here?) we are looking at having to spend about another 30 grand than we expected  before we can even start building.    So basically now we are going back to the vendors and saying that they have misrepresented what they sold us and they need to drop the price significantly.  Its a rough time  as there may come a point where we will have to walk away from it…. Now that will be a hard thing to do as it basically meets all our criteria for what we wanted… close to town, close to the beach, no neighbours, water that attracts ducks… pretty much everything we want.  Adman and I try and live my the adage that what will be will be and we just have to let it  happen and the right  thing will happen.

On top of all the land issues I have also had a huge week at work – luckily Adman has been working from home as I have only been able to pick up the Young man  once this week.  I hate having to work late  and I hate not being able to pick the boy up and seeing his happy face.   It won’t be forever  but in the meantime its pretty crappy.  

Bring on the weekend I say