God wot another gorgeouus WINTER day we are having today, the sun is out and warm my washing is out and drying, sorry folks back home not rubbing it in, (much) no seroiusly its not funny. well just spent the morning with Jaden helping in his class Jaden got told off last Friday for pulling a piece of thread on the carpet and he thought it was fun to keep pulling and well you can imagine what the carpet looks like now. So yesterday I told him to stay out of trouble. He came home saying he only got told off a little bit today. Carly and I spent Saturday skiing OMG was I aching on Sunday, and she says to me come on lets learn to jump, so I followed her over this mould of snow and she turns round and sees me sprawled out one leg behind me the other in front, all i can say is im glad i practised my pelvc floor muscles after having the kids as i nearly wet meself laughing. Thanks for the photos you sent me Mandy wedding looked lovely, give my love to Tams and have a fantastic holiday. Work is going really well for me and Im enjoying it, I have been going into schools and getting to know people. Sharon, Carly & I are going to Auckland to see Gwen Staffani tomoz night, whoop whoop!!!!!

Well a quick blog just to let you know how my first day went. So far so good, I think I'm going to enjoy it. I went thru all the paper work today and what my role is all about, but I will let you know when they start giving me my own case loads if I'm still enjoying it.
Some friends of ours went back to the UK 3 weeks ago and couldn't wait to get back here, but I'm sure it's got nothing to do with the weather your having, the good thing about us is Spring is on the way, whoop whoop!!! Then Summer, which I can have off, whoop whoop again!!!!
Seriously guys I do miss you! The children came home with smiling faces today after having 2 weeks off, Billie-jo said she has a new boy starting today from Notingham.

Sorry only took these pix my camera died on me I took so many of the scenery (uh trees and stuff that some I had to delete ha ha) Aint he cute tho.

Carly stroking the baby cub that the mum has neglected

Gosh it's hard to believe today being 17 degrees and a blue sky that two days ago we had a horrendous storm with winds up to 180kmh. Trees have fallen in the roads causing motorist to turn around, Paige got stuck at work and we couldn't get to her in the end someone brought her home quite late. Auckland bridge was closed to motor bikes as the wind whisked two of them off their bikes. Friends of ours moved into their new home and their roof was ripped off, people lost their electricity that night and some are still out now. It was scarey! Wellits the end of school holls, we have had a good 2 weeks off, Carly & I drove to whangerie to Zion to see some lions, and we went to watch the new Harry Potter flim and Transformers which was excellent. Well I'm starting work Monday, quite excited about it really, how sad. Jaden had his friend Tayla round today and she put make-up on him i wish i had my camera handy bit it ran out of battery. He looked in the mirror and said Quote ' That don't look very nice Tayla you got got it on my eye brows' and went and washed it off, it was funny. O well Friday the 13th today going to dish up dinner then going out for an end of the week deserved drink.

They start them young over here

Jaden trying on the uniform for size

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PAIGE- 15

Waiheke Island _ The Crowd

We visited Waiheke island yesterday, took the car across the ferry which took about 35 minutes. It is a beautiful place you could almost imagine you are on a carribean Island and the weather didn't let us down. It was also Paiges's 15th birthday, we had such a laugh, I laughed all day.