Day 24: My family means a lot to me

xox

Day 23: 15 facts about me

1. I am 27 years old.

2. I cry at anything nowadays - youtube clips with pet reunions, shows about rottweilers, anything about children - you name it, I cry at it.

3. My favourite food is strawberries, although I don't usually like strawberry flavoured things.

4. I have three tattoos - Leah's birthdate and skull, my stars on my wrist and a bow behind my ear.

5. I can recite pretty much the whole script of 'Pulp Fiction'.

6. I don't understand the stock exchange.

7. I'm ready for Baby #2!

8. I've clocked an insane amount of Super Mario games and will talk for hours about this subject.

9. I have recently rediscovered reading and am a proper bookworm again.

10. I find it really hard to relax.

11. I've just been accepted to Te Wananga Aotearoa and will be studying Level 2 Te Reo come July.

12. My feet are size 8.

13. I love naughty children.

14. I throw my dog birthday parties (only small ones) that involve cake and presents.

15. My favourite gaming console is Nintendo and my favourite game of all time is Pikmin.

Things I'm loving...

Not every day is good but there is something good in every day...or every week in this case!

 

 I love this sushi face. She ate the whole lot so it couldn't have been too bad!

 

 

Loving the 100 days project. I've decided to take a photograph of one thing a day that makes me happy - loving the positivity! You can view my project here.

Loving Mr. Vintage! I asked and they produced! They had a style I liked but not in Leah's size. I emailed them and within a few days what I wanted was on my doorstep. Kia ora Mr. Vintage!

 

 

Loving my big boy. He's been so good with the move and... well, how can you not love this adorable face.

 

 

Loving the husband that got so excited about the hail he had to take a photo of it.

 

And lastly...TGIF. Loving the end of the week. Was ready for it!

 

What are you loving this week?

xox 

Liebster Nomination!

A few weeks ago On the 20th of May (!) I got a nomination for a Liebster Award from Clare at Goodness Gracious. Thanks Clare! I wanted to do something about it at the time but we all know things have been hectic around our ways (posts to come about amazing new house.

So here we go...

The Liebster Award is given to up and coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. What does Liebster mean? Liebster is German meaning dearest.

Here are the rules for receiving...
1.  Each person must post 11 things about themselves.
2. Answer the questions that the tagger set for your plus create 11 questions for the people you've tagged to answer.
3. Choose 11  5 people and link them in your post (Clare chose lots of the blogs I follow! So was hard to choose).
4. Go to their page and tell them.
5. No tag backs!
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My eleven things:

1. I am born, raised and lived all my life in South Auckland (as well as worked there all my working career)...and I tured out alright! Don't believe everything you hear in the media.

2. I have clocked a multitude of Super Mario Games.

3. I love baking but feel like I never have enough time for it. I even bought myself a fancy pantsy kitchen aide earlier this year.

4. I'm ready for baby #2... not to sure about my other half lol.

5. Earlier this year I attended the Black Sabbath concert and I wish I could go to more concerts nowadays. I used to go to a lot more when I was younger.

6. I love strawberries.

7. I like when it's raining at bedtime.

8. Last winter I watched 'Lost' from beginning to end, yep - that's right, 6 seasons of up to 24 episodes each one after the other. Took us about 2 months, but it was worth it... kind of.

9. I can hardly sit still for more than ten minutes, and if I do I have to be doing something while I sit... hence why I took up blogging.

10. I have recently joined Toastmasters NZ and am going to share my 2nd speech in a week's time.

11. Sesame street is good as an adult as well as a child....trust me.

11 questions for my nominations: 

1. What is your favorite food? Strawberries, or bacon.... strawberry bacon.
2. Where have you traveled (within or out of country) and what is a favorite memory of that trip? I love Rotorua. There are so many places to explore and a spa pool in every hotel!
3. What was your first ever blog post about? It was about the blog and taking the big step into the blogging world and why on earth anyone would want to read about me!
4. When you meet someone for the first time, what do you notice first? Their eyes. I find they usually tell a lot about their personality too.
5. Who has been an influential person in your life and why? My amazing dad... so many reasons. Read my blog posts about him.
6. The answer is 6, what is the question? If I have 3 bacon strawberries and I bake 3 more bacon strawberries...how many bacon strawberries do I need to hide from Damien so he doesn't eat them before I do?
7. How do you relax? Relax? What's that? I'm a teacher... I don't know the meaning of this 'relax' you speak of.
8. Are you a 'morning person' or a 'night owl'? Morning person.
9. Describe your favorite teacher at school. Mr Alderton made you love literature. He made you think and he made you know that you could achieve.
10. What is your favorite music right now? Heavy/Rock/Metal
11. Do you like answering lots of questions about yourself? NO! lol

Now I found it very hard to pick my 5 blogs (I had to cut it down from 11 and still found 5 difficult!).
Here they are:
Memories, Moments and Musings
Anything is possible
Mama J'adore
A life of charming moments
The ramblings of another mother

And here are your questions...
1. Do you online shop? and if you do, what is your favourite site to buy from?
2. Who is your favourite author?
3. School us with a great quote.
4. Tell us about your blogging style.
5. What are the last 5 books you've read and enjoyed?
6. Are you a dog or a cat person?
7. Describe your high school uniform in depth.
8. How many hours a week do you spend on Facebook?
9. Where is the best place you've ever visited? What made it so special?
10. Summer or winter?
11. How do you feel about my nomination of you for this?

Enjoy
xox

Things I'm Loving

Not every day is good but there is something good in every day...or every week in this case!

Loving our new house. There hasn't been much time for anything else but moving and unpacking in the last 7 days. Here's some photos of our new house. Love, love, love it!

Also loving watching this girl have high tea like I used to when I was a wee tyke.

What are you loving this week?

Character Description

My friend and colleague Lynn and I have been teaching a lovely group of darlings for some writing extension. One part of this is writing models to show them what good writers do and what a good piece of writing looks like. This week we're looking at describing a person we know. Lynn taught the lesson and wrote about me and I wanted to share. I hope she doesn't mind, here it is.

Kind green eyes scan the classroom for students she can compliment. She tucks her straight brown hair behind one ear and leans quietly in to speak to one child. Her voice is quiet yet encouraging, and her comments are often laced with humour. Mrs Clarke prefers to wear comfortable clothes. She loves to wear black but tries to inject her outfits with a dash of colour. 

Mrs Clarke’s creativity is evident in much of what she does. She loves to make crafty things and willingly shares her ideas and expertise with others. Mrs Clarke proudly calls herself a geek; she loves all things digital, especially gaming, blogging and digital photography.

Mrs Clarke makes all the children in her class feel special. This is because she genuinely likes children, and seeing them learn. Her friends appreciate her for her generosity, especially in sharing her time and talents with them. Mrs Clarke also values her family dearly. She cooks delicious meals for her husband and daughter, and often goes on family adventures with them, and her beloved rottweiler Jake.

I am lucky to be able to call Mrs Clarke a colleague and a friend. We enjoy working together and having fun together.

Things I'm loving.....our house

Not every day is good but there is something good in every day...or every week in this case!

I am aware I've been a very MIA blogger the past few weeks and I'm very sorry. I'm hoping to rectify this in the next little while once things calm down around here. We move house tomorrow so once we're settled in I'm hoping to get back into my blogging groove. It's been nice to have a little break from it, but I've missed it too!

So this week's Things I'm loving is dedicated to our house. 

Our first house.

At 21 and 23, you were a major achievement.

How proud we were.

We started off with very little furniture, now we have too much!

The house where we started our family,

First with a little fur baby named Vince

and followed by another ball of fluff called Jake.

Then came the real deal, 

Our brand new little girl.

Here is where we made you, we dreamed of you and we brought you home.

You took your first step here, said your first words here, said your first 'I love you' here.

Our home.

Where he asked me to marry him.

Where we waved at each other between the kitchen and the garage.

Where we danced drunkenly in the lounge (one of my favourite memories)

Where we brought our little girl home.

Where we started to make memories.

Thank you little home.

You were a great start. 

xox