Kune Kune Piglets

Also on Sunday we need to 'gather' the pigs to check the sex of them. We have orders for three girls and four boys... so hopefully we have the right gender. Here's a photo of what our Kune Kune Piglets look like.

The Work Do / Xmas

Our once a year break from the kids :)
Jason's work do is on Saturday, and 'cos we live 'SO FAAAR' out of Auckland, we get put up in a hotel over night (cheaper than sending us home in a taxi).
Then home on Sunday to decorate a tree with Nana and Poppa.
Wierd doing the whole Christmas thing seeing as we didn't do it when I was growing up. I do have a problem with the whole santa thing, but I'm married to someone who values the 'family' aspect and for some reason that goes with it for him, so I play along. I am however looking forward to when they work it out and I don't have to 'cover' any longer.

My Performance

I did it. On stage for 1 minute and 35 seconds.... very daunting, but well worth the effort. Lucky for me you can't actually see the audience or for that matter hear them very well (over the music). The resin is fantastic at stopping you from slipping in your socks (can't afford jazz shoes yet). At the rehearsal, I didn't know about the resin and I almost fell over in the first few steps, which threw me for the whole thing. Luckily we got two attempts at it... and the teacher told us about resin...
Anyway the actual day was a real buzz and I'd do it again. Thinking something from Iggy Pop for next year... have to get the others to agree of course.

Up for a laugh?

For those of you up for a laugh, I'm doing a dance recital in two weeks. Been taking adult jazz classes for a couple of terms and they talked me into going on stage... after all the children. LOL, better get a taste for wine - may need some dutch courage ;)

no fair

when I previewed the images they were all over the place and it works it out itself... LOL

My cakes

I made the mistake of not photographing my first two cakes, but they were an Omnitrix, from Ben10, and a rectangle with Tinkerbell (similar to the superman below).
Here are some i did capture... (as I am new to blogging, I am not going to bother aligning the pictures)

A bit about me...

... until recently I was a stay at home mum, discovering all sorts of wonderful things about my children's development. Then my husband over night got sick and we almost lost him... but it got me thinking, how would I support the family if anything had happened. Once I started thinking about that I also started to miss my 'working' life. Not enough to discard being a full time mum, 'cos that's frankly more important to me than being a career woman again, but enough to want to do 'SOMETHING'. A friend of mine and her cousin were in similar boats for different reasons and together we are forming a company called Stretched.co.nz, an online contracting business covering services for Administration, Marketing, Technology, Operations and more. So quite excited about setting that up, especially now I have 'a little' more time on my hands with one child at school and another in daycare.
I am probably a little bit busier than most stay at home mums too as we live on a lifestyle block (2.5 acres), with pigs, chicken, sheep a vege patch and orchard. So plenty to do around the 'block'.
I also have a philosophy of making as much as I can... ie yoghurt, bottling tomatoes, baking biscuits, growing our own vege (although been on the backburner with Jason being sick and all), not to mention egg production :). I even make my own hot chocolate powder.
Recently with my son's 5th birthday I discovered a bit of a talent for cake decorating, which I have been finding opportunities to try more and discovering all sorts of creativity I didn't think was there.
There is of course plenty more to our little life here, but right now I'd better go pick up my son - yep I'm already late from writing this up. ;)

Not sure what I'll use this for...

... perhaps to show the world my family, lifestyle block, interests, childrens activities, and the life of a working stay at home mum... etc
We'll see if I actually have time to write anything in here shall we :)