Thanks to a suggestion from Allison, I thought I’d talk about ‘stuff’. Getting rid of stuff is pretty tough for adults, but can you imagine what it’s like for kids? I now appreciate the connection to their creations/artwork and the tantrums involved when you try and throw out some random cereal box that’s been painted. […]
My daughter was born in 2006, my first child, and that’s when I finally figured out that: Life is a slow process of letting go There she was, screaming at me, hugging me, needing me, and it dawned on me that she will only need me for a limited time. I’ll only be here for […]
Lesson learned; super fancy wheelie suitcase/backpacks will not stop kids whining. Alpha and Lennox got fancy wheeled/backpack hybrid suitcases for Christmas. I thought, ‘maybe, just maybe they would be so excited by the wheels that they wouldn’t whine about lugging around their own stuff.’ Nope. Lennox was a trooper, Alpha not so much. I’m not […]
I bet you want to know how much we’ve paid on airline tickets and insurance and accommodation right? You know the most frustratingly expensive item isn’t the big ticket stuff, it’s the annoying necessitates – plastic bins! Four 80lt bins from Bunnings – $107. Then I go to The Warehouse a week later and there […]
So Russia may be off the books, but on the upside, I learned more about Schengen and Bilateral countries when talking to Peter my ‘visa guy’. His first question to me was “So why are you doing it this way? Logically you’d do Western Europe first, in fact, with a New Zealand passport you can […]