I am sitting at my lovely dining room table and listening to Maree & Diane from Curtains & More install my lovely new roman blinds throughout the house. They look fabulous. I will try to post a picture soon.

This morning the boys had their first morning at their new pre-school. Their last day care was called "Starlights" - nice & easy to say. However, they are now at "Coastlands Early Childhood Learning Centre", so I just call it pre-school!

Lachlan pretty much disappeared to play as soon as we got there. He is in the four year olds room, but at certain periods of the day they can play wherever - which was the case at 8.30am this morning. It was very quiet when I got there - I think many of the kids come at 9am or later. Maybe their mums don't work, just send the kids in a few mornings a week? It is also much bigger (space wise) than their last centre so it just seems roomy and quieter and lots of different activities for the kids.

Fletcher had a bit of trouble calming down after I left, but then by all accounts had a fabulous time playing outside. And Lachie was very settled, chatting with the other kids and the teachers. When we collected Lachie he was working on a name tag for his cubbyhole. Me and Jamie are very pleased with the centre.

Still enjoying lots of hot weather here - you will be pleased to hear that I have been swimming every day lately!! The water is lovely. I went down at nearly 6pm last night and it was still fabulous - Jamie went down about 7.30pm.

A new house has started going up at the end of the street. And bits and bobs happening at our place - fences going up, blinds going in, levelling the section and watering to let the beach grass grow....

Yesterday and today we have had some guys in with a bobcat to level out our section and take away a couple of huge sand piles. They finished off this afternoon putting down 50ml of topsoil.



Its been a bit of a dustbowl around here the last two days because of that. No fun. Its almost worse than what we had before!! It will be really nice when there is some grass around here!!!

Also yesterday, we took the boys for a visit to their new pre-school. It is much handier because it is around the corner from our new house. It went well, and we have another visit in the pipeline tomorrow.

This afternoon, Penny from Prestige Cleaning (or some such place) came around and cleaned our shower doors for us. You know how they get all water stained and soap scummy? Well, Penny has a way of cleaning the doors (she used this big sander thingee), and then putting a special seal on them. She says I should never have to use cleaner on the doors ever again. I just need to rinse the door, squeagee and dry it after the final use of the day, and buff it up with a microfibre cloth once a week!!! You would be amazed what built up on the door after only 2 weeks of use. Anyway, it looks like brand new again.

Here are the boys after their dinner tonight, having a bit of band practice...

A few days at Whangamata

Last Thursday we went to Whangamata to spend a few days with our friends John & Moana. Fletcher enjoyed the water (yay!), Lachlan, not so much, but he did enjoy splashing in the puddles at the estuary. Here they are after Dad has bathed them after an afternoon in the water....

There was no bath, so rather than showering them, they had outdoor baths in this wee bucket!!

I spoke to Tracy quickly yesterday, and she asked me to post a few photos of the house.


I took a few of the kitchen, before we moved in. Here they are. The floors are quite dusty though, its before they had their final polish.



The orange lines are tape, to protect the skirting boards from the concrete polisher.

Things are going great. We got the washing line up on Friday, with a little help from Grandad Kerr. Not so nice going out there thought, with so much sand. Hopefully all that will be dug out this week.


Back to normal this week - work on Monday & Chelsea on Tuesday.

And hopefully I will post some more pictures soon.

Hi there!! It is my first post from Omega Place! Hmmm....looks like I need to change my blog title.


Got the phone on this morning, which means at last I can get online.


Its another amazing day here, the boys are (supposedly) sleeping and I am staying out of the sun.


I spent the morning in town yesterday and today - doing jobs. This morning I also caught up with a few friends at the beach playground.


Finally got the showers in yesterday morning and we will be able to use them tomorrow morning. Yay! The painter is also here finishing up - he says he should be done by the end of the week.


Also, as you know I look after my niece Chelsea on Tuesdays - have had last week and today off. I have told the organisation that I get paid through, that I have moved. They want to come and do a safety check!! And I have no fences!!! They were muttering something about temporary fencing......sigh........

I'm Loving it...!

Hello hello!!

Our new house is just AWESOME. We are loving it.

Unfortunately we are not yet set up for the ole phone or broadband. At the moment I am checking the email etc at King St.

Anyway, I'm sure by the end of next week it will all be up and running.


Happy New Year!!