Mr Delish and I decided with all the earthquake related stress and drama that we would go on a date. We organised a good friend to come take over with the children. We have not done this for so long. We walked and talked. We ate. We went where ever when ever for those few hours it was just us. The tragic aspect was no longer were the places we used to go available for us, Victoria Square, Valentinos or Cafe Metro. We didn't feel like Lyttelton or going to any bay over the Porthills. The beach was out.
Life is so very different and I guess it will be for a very long time to come. Lots of our familiar businesses will go, the change of the landscape and the fear will take along time to recede. But we are alive, physically uninjured, we have a roof over our heads (with tarpolins but it's a roof) we have food, water (even if we have to boil it), we have a chemical loo, and we have a future what a great gift that future is.
Peace and love
Abs
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
I had found secret blogging
you write and you do not publish! and then I started journaling again (hence no blog for a long time!) and I have loved the time I sneak into my room once my delish partner arrives home, I lay across the bed or under the covers if it's colder. I think and I write and I write what I think.
This blog journey was about weighloss but it morphed into me finding myself. My inner me that as a Mum of children had been forgotten and surpressed. I love to read, I love to write. These 2 things have brough me much joy in the last months. We have even started a book swap with friends. Such simple pleasures as coming together in an afternoon with all the children (seriously there are about twenty when we all get together!), having a coffee and some cake pouring over books. It's cheap, it's social and I am loving it.
Mr Delish as I call my partner has been so supportive of my new discovery of me, he loves the fact that I'm not that "grumpy cow" (my words) I was before, and that I now value myself, I do not have to be the one who does it all. Mr Delish's daughter has come to live with us, her school was damaged in the earthquake and now has to go to another one. The upheavial for her has been great but she's managed like a trouper. My blended family is for ever changing and I love how it works so well for us, that we managed as adults to communicate so well over our children. I look forward to the holidays together with his, hers, ours, his, hers, theres that are our family.
Well I had better get on with the baking, I found a recipe for crockpot bread so thought I'd give that a go, as well as some biscuits and slice for lunches this week.
This blog journey was about weighloss but it morphed into me finding myself. My inner me that as a Mum of children had been forgotten and surpressed. I love to read, I love to write. These 2 things have brough me much joy in the last months. We have even started a book swap with friends. Such simple pleasures as coming together in an afternoon with all the children (seriously there are about twenty when we all get together!), having a coffee and some cake pouring over books. It's cheap, it's social and I am loving it.
Mr Delish as I call my partner has been so supportive of my new discovery of me, he loves the fact that I'm not that "grumpy cow" (my words) I was before, and that I now value myself, I do not have to be the one who does it all. Mr Delish's daughter has come to live with us, her school was damaged in the earthquake and now has to go to another one. The upheavial for her has been great but she's managed like a trouper. My blended family is for ever changing and I love how it works so well for us, that we managed as adults to communicate so well over our children. I look forward to the holidays together with his, hers, ours, his, hers, theres that are our family.
Well I had better get on with the baking, I found a recipe for crockpot bread so thought I'd give that a go, as well as some biscuits and slice for lunches this week.
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