26 June 2010, it has been a long long while since i last blogged here.
It has been a very busy, tiring, stressful, and very cold few weeks.
Definitely no mood for blogging but, i'm doing it now, yay!
Maeva is now truly settled into kindy and loving it. Her best friend is Rania.
She's a lot more well versed with letters, she would yell out the letters as we're driving, and when she sees them on shops and signs and adverts.
It's very funny now how she identified letters, for example, M for Maeva.
O for Omega, but she never says Omega, its always O for Aunty Mega.
V for Victor (her cousin in Marseille). S for Sheree. W for Wendy.
S for Samoa.
She loves singing and dancing, so lately, we've been having dance offs in her room.
I lie on her bed while she bows and makes up a dance and show, then she bows (ifo!) and It's my turn.
The songs are about everything and anything.
Purple is still her colour,. And the ultimate dream for her is a purple little piglet that go "wee wee wee".
She can say colours in English, French and Samoan - she is very proud to point this out.
She continues to love reading, she drives me and Gui up the wall by asking to have so many books read to her. So what I do is make her read me the book for a change. Or I just pretend to sleep so she leaves me alone. Bad Mom!
She loves painting, drawing, scribbling, especially Ms.MMMMMM.
Loves playing with her friends (close friends), shes definitely not going to be the ice breaker at the party, she's quite a calculating child, she stops, scans the area and then chooses her moment,.
This isn't always a good thing when I am in a rush in the morning and her besties are not in kindie yet, and she will not release me until a teacher catches her attention.
She's had a bad few weeks, for a few days she coughed and coughed repeatedly, not much sleep. She was getting her asthma problems again. We now have a new doctor, who is brilliant and got her a different inhaler which did magic for her cough. The only problem is that she inhales, then it causes her to vomit (out the phelm and all the gunk blocking her airways) and then she is fine after that, and thankfully drowsy.
Then another few days of good health then a fever, so back to the doctor we go.
She has been like this since she was born, especially beginning of winter then she gets used to it.
Gui continues to play rugby and working for those shets at the same workplace.
I am still at uni until 31 aug when my contract finishes. It will most likely be extended but I am not too keen to continue as it is getting more and more a finance/accounting role which I detest with so much passion.
I just finished my online paper with School of M n Pac Developmt, which was okay, but I submitted ALL my assignments late. well, I started the course late due to enrolment, student loan issues.
I am now meant to submit my proposal for the thesis and that will be my focus tomorrow at the labs.
This whole juggling thing is making me just frustrated and over it. I'm hating this place so much and I want to get the hell out of shitty old Hamilton. That is my inspiration at the moment, get that bloody thesis over with and get the hell out of here.
...where to?
Don't know,
Don't care.
I left home for uni in 1999. I only spend a year and a bit back home in 2003. I want to be home but also realistic that I need to find a job before I do anything drastic.
I am scanning the job section of every possible organisation that suits my qual and work exp as a GOAL to get my a into G.
Okay, i need to end with a positive note: especially about this place:
- Maeva's medical costs zero, so we dont spent a cent on her frequent trips to the doc.
- Fresh fruits
- All Blacks are in town, yay. sure.
- That we have a functioning heat pump that keeps us warm in this cold period.
- That there's people doing worse off, so I should brighten up and count my blessings.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Easter Break 2010
For Maeva's memoirs
Good Friday was a day off - but Gui's rugby game against Hautapu was happening at 1pm, so while he left early to see his team, Maeva and I had a sleep in, watched tv, cleaned the house, did 3 loads of washing and then got ready for the rugby.
We took our own sandwiches, cucumbers (her new favourite), jam sandwich and a mango because there is a 15% surcharge on all goods today.
We parked our car on the hill and watched the game from there (well, Maeva- you slept), then we joined my cousin Rob and his family. We also got to hold baby Tamatoa (Tiana and Brian's cute little son).
For the second half, we walked across the paddock to the main stand.
You had eaten all the cucumbers by then.
We sat with the Varsity boys waiting for your papa to come out of the changing sheds.
You got impatient so you started playing with the dust until your pants were all brown.
While we waited, I thought you were behaving so well, so I rewarded you with a licorice from the dairy.
You were very excited about it, you held the long rope of licorice across your face and said
"Look mum!"
However, the fun ended there, you didn't like the taste, so you placed that back in the bag and picked something else.
Then we shared a mango, and you ate faster than me!
By then, your papa had come out of the shed and you ran excitedly to see greet him.
You love hanging around his feet playing in the dust while he was chatting with his boys.
But I was not happy when he got you a packet of crisps - Not good Papa!
Anyway - we watched the game - Varsity lost but it was a fun day altogether.
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Easter Weekend
We drove to Bowentowen, pitched up the tent and you were fascinated with the zips and the air bed and the dirt!
We set up our table outside and you sat there eating your lunch while me and your papa set up our tent.
You met the neighbours kids, Jules and Miller, both girls who liked to run around. You ended up hanging out with them a lot.
We spent heaps of time at the playground, beach, kitchen, walking tracks and outdoors.
I think the highlights for you were:
- Making sand castles at Waihi beach and Pio's beach
- Finding your chocolate easter bunny in your sleeping bag...and eating it too!
- Taking Tigger on your back to the beach
- Jumping on the trampoline and being chased by your mama while you giggled.
- Watching other kids playing in the resources room
- Washing your hands with 'pink soap'
- Swinging under the tree next to our tent
- Sleeping in with your olds in a wee wee tent
- Playing in the fresh water pond at Waihi
- SWIMMING AT THE HOT WATER POOLS IN TE AROHA, THATS THE BEST I THINK!
My girl, you were a wonderful camper and I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with you. We will do this again this winter and make sure you have as much time outdoors so you can be nature loving bugga like us!!!
Good Friday was a day off - but Gui's rugby game against Hautapu was happening at 1pm, so while he left early to see his team, Maeva and I had a sleep in, watched tv, cleaned the house, did 3 loads of washing and then got ready for the rugby.
We took our own sandwiches, cucumbers (her new favourite), jam sandwich and a mango because there is a 15% surcharge on all goods today.
We parked our car on the hill and watched the game from there (well, Maeva- you slept), then we joined my cousin Rob and his family. We also got to hold baby Tamatoa (Tiana and Brian's cute little son).
For the second half, we walked across the paddock to the main stand.
You had eaten all the cucumbers by then.
We sat with the Varsity boys waiting for your papa to come out of the changing sheds.
You got impatient so you started playing with the dust until your pants were all brown.
While we waited, I thought you were behaving so well, so I rewarded you with a licorice from the dairy.
You were very excited about it, you held the long rope of licorice across your face and said
"Look mum!"
However, the fun ended there, you didn't like the taste, so you placed that back in the bag and picked something else.
Then we shared a mango, and you ate faster than me!
By then, your papa had come out of the shed and you ran excitedly to see greet him.
You love hanging around his feet playing in the dust while he was chatting with his boys.
But I was not happy when he got you a packet of crisps - Not good Papa!
Anyway - we watched the game - Varsity lost but it was a fun day altogether.
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Easter Weekend
We drove to Bowentowen, pitched up the tent and you were fascinated with the zips and the air bed and the dirt!
We set up our table outside and you sat there eating your lunch while me and your papa set up our tent.
You met the neighbours kids, Jules and Miller, both girls who liked to run around. You ended up hanging out with them a lot.
We spent heaps of time at the playground, beach, kitchen, walking tracks and outdoors.
I think the highlights for you were:
- Making sand castles at Waihi beach and Pio's beach
- Finding your chocolate easter bunny in your sleeping bag...and eating it too!
- Taking Tigger on your back to the beach
- Jumping on the trampoline and being chased by your mama while you giggled.
- Watching other kids playing in the resources room
- Washing your hands with 'pink soap'
- Swinging under the tree next to our tent
- Sleeping in with your olds in a wee wee tent
- Playing in the fresh water pond at Waihi
- SWIMMING AT THE HOT WATER POOLS IN TE AROHA, THATS THE BEST I THINK!
My girl, you were a wonderful camper and I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with you. We will do this again this winter and make sure you have as much time outdoors so you can be nature loving bugga like us!!!
...playing in the water at Waihi Beach....
I love my Maeva Moelagi (:
Posing with your Papa at Waihi Beach, you love this dress, in fact, all dresses. Just this morning we had another struggle to get you to wear pants. You won the struggle - again - you wore your dress to daycare!
Eating your Easter Bunny in our tent on Sunday morning
Swinging under the trees...you little monkey (:
Look, Papa found you a wee shell!
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Mount Maunganui in March 2010
Loads of fun times at the beach with Maeva, even though it was a bit cold, she loved playing in the water with Gui and in the sand as well. It took me ages to get the sand out of her hair and clothes. She loves talking at the moment, shes is constantly having a conversation with herself.
Lately, we've been reversing roles, she becomes the mama and I become Maeva. She'll speak to me in a concerned tone and say "I'm the mummy, okay baby? Youre Maeva.....you want to go to school and I go to study at ..aniversity??" She makes me laugh when she does this!
Its also a good way of making her cooperate...when shes a bit of a sookie, I'd say "Mommies doing cry like that!"
Well, it worked for a few days but not lately!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Photo Updates
Click on the link to view recent photos coz I'm too busy to post an update.
Manuia le aso
Maeva Moelagi ma le aiga(:
Manuia le aso
Maeva Moelagi ma le aiga(:
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