Change of Plans.......

so

we were going to be home for Christmas...

and at Simoney's for New Years...

but now we're not.

We're staying a month longer.

And that is ok.

I am happy-sad.

Happy for a new experience

(a winter wonderland - fingers crossed - it could happen!)

Sad to not be heading to my sisters for breakfast that morning, my brothers for lunch and then the almost-last-minute-destination-often-ours-cause-no-one-said-they-wanted-to place

for the other side.

(sad to not hear my dad tell the same story for the umpteenth time at the Christmas lunch even though we're all telling him we've heard it a million times before..... he'll soldier on until his story has been told. again.all Smiths will roll their eyes. Me twice.).

Someone will have to video tape.

Happy because it means MJ won't need to love and leave us there to fly back here for important work stuff.

Christmas is not a public holiday here: sad

Staying together : happy.

Happy to be sharing Christmas with some friends here too.

It will be an international spread I'm sure....

(that's right, I did).
I plan on perfecting 'The Pav'..

because it's unheard of....

though it will mean I'll need to fork out for an electric beater.

And as my friend said, I will have a lot of lights to choose from here...

so plan A: light up the outside of the house so that the family can see us from downunder.

So.

I roll with change.
Summer will be different.

Freezing cold and then in mid-Jan..... I will put on a new special pair of sunnies because the blue skies of NZ are bound to blind me.

It's been a while since we've seen a brilliant blue.

(still trying to figure this one out...)