oh happy day

 Yee Haa. I may be just a little excited today. Actually there are a number of things that make me happy today.

Ill start off with today...and work my way backwards.

The exciting news of the day is that the kids went back to school today. A little earlier than some of your kids...but...we started the holidays way back at the beginning of December, so its been a long one. Joe woke up and was ready, dressed, fed and had made his lunch before Miss Joy had even woken up. She had surprisingly slept in longer than usual. Weird.

They have new Smiggle back packs and duraseal covered books, all ready to start the new year. What can I say, I loved school and they do too.Both of them are starting in a new class room and with new teachers. Aw they are growing up. 

Zak zak also went to play school this morning (his one of two mornings a week), so I had the whole morning free. I met a lovely friend for coffee and breaky. 

And then I went and saw a movie, a tear jerker. I don't normally cry in movies but the movie "The Impossible" was incredibly emotional. Its a true story survival tale of a family caught in 2004 Boxing Tsunami. Amazingly realistic  I saw the trailer when I went to see Les Miseables and got I got teary just watching the trailer!

Yesterday I went to a beautiful baby shower. We had to bring a baby photo, and do the match the baby photo with the person game. Surprisingly every single person guessed me right?!

What a cutie. Recently I was visiting with my uncles, and they told me about when I went to Fiji as a baby they would carry me through town showing me off. What a sight that would have been, a couple of Indian teenage boys showing off a chubby little white baby. They relished in the ooh and aahing apparently.

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Remember last post about me mentioning going to Christchurch? Well its all on! Plane tickets with Paisely Jade are all paid for. Rego is in for the blogger conference. I have picked all the social-able electives, because really the only reason I'm going down  for is the friendships. The only reason I blog really is for the friendships to be honest. Looking forward to spending my birthday weekend with some groovy gals. 

Speaking of groovy blog girls. I caught up with  Gail and Meghan on the weekend. Meghan has been planning her Northland trip for months, so to finally have it all happen was very cool. Of course the Whangarei Bloggers tried their hardest to behave in public, but we always seems to be the rowdy ones in the place. Too much laughing. Meghan assures me we didn't scare her off...talking about death and heaven and colonoscopies at the dinner table. Oh well that's just how we roll. 

And so lovely to catch up with Gail after following her China travels for the last couple of years. Amazing chick and amazing family. Her kids are almost exactly the same age as mine. Quite uncanny. 

The lame blogger I am, I forgot to take pics. Fortunately I am always sure that Paisley Jade will take her camera...or have her instagram machine. See here for the fun 

See what I mean about the friendships? I would never have met these girls if it weren't for blogging.What I have learnt from my couple years of blogging is if you want to make friendships through blogging, you connect though commenting on blog posts. Commenting shows you care and a reciprocal relationship can be built. It is silly to assume that because you comment on someones blog, that they must in turn do the same to you...it wont always happen, so don't be offended. just keep it fun people!

Well that my 2 cents worth today.

Any hoo where was I? Oh yes...things that make me happy today. 

Finding a quiet place on my new swing seat to read the Good Book.

Enjoying Christine Caines book "Undaunted", and looking forward to getting into the next biography. 

So much to be thankful for.

Oh happy day.

{ ADDIT: I just wanted to add in that bit about the comments thing...am I in NO way fishing for more comments for MY blog...im happy with the fact that anyone besides my family reads it all...I was just merely writing it for some peoples benefit who haven't quite been able to find friendship yet...that all :) }