Four Beaches and a Birthday

As most people (reading this) know, my 30th birthday was a week ago tomorrow. Samuel and I were in Whangarei that weekend (a story for another time), so I spent my birthday with my parents – I think possibly the first time in a decade. We had a very nice day – I did a…

Mixed Feelings

Since Adam has been visiting a lot recently (and will now be looked after by Olyvia, along with Regan, twice a week), Samuel is able to pick up new skills by observing someone roughly a year older than himself. This is obviously good in some ways, but bad in others. Sam’s now able to open…

Paihia

Last week we all drove up to Paihia to visit Simon, Jolene, Adam & Regan, who spent the week up there. Sam did quite well with the 4.5 hour trip (probably his longest so far), with just a little stop at Wellsford for some lunch. We didn’t really do anything on Wednesday night, but on…