another week gone by

hard working weekend, me looking after our far too active daughter - she never sits still (groan) - and toby doing wedding photography. daycare already upset about how much they are going to miss mia. she is quite a handful and i think we have terrible twos ahead. she's a stubborn little so and so, can't imagine where she gets that from?! but gorgeous with it and rarely without a smile. not really done any packing or anything this weekend but i have managed to tidy up the patio some more. anyway, toby took loads of amazing pix once again at the wedding and the happy couple have had a very good deal indeed. it was at a beautiful old villa/restaurant in amongst auckland's western vineyards and there was barely a cloud in the sky. whilst toby took 500 pix mia and i shopped, cleaned and went for a bbq to a pal's house. all good fun but hard work. today he has been sorting out all the photos but we did manage a family trip out to orewa and mia chuckled with delight in the pet shop, looking at chocolate labradors. i managed to get out on thursday to see cirque du soleil's "varakai" which was fantastic. the costumes and colours, plus the acrobatics of course, were amazing. tomorrow sees me out again - dinner with fiona and carol from work - at local thai restaurant. interviewing for my job this week which is quite sad, it is all becoming very real and final! and - apologies in advance - might not be a blog entry next weekend. we are off to the coromandel. staying in a bach in hahei at the grand cost of $20!! driving down first thing saturday and hopefully we will get to feel the heat of hot water beach and see cathedral cove. both famous spots and we have been to neither so really looking forward to it. right, time for bed! lots of love.