Memorial

William Maurice Eason 3 April 1942 – 24 February 2007 Fond memories today of lovely Bill.

A Little Older

At the end of last week I got a little older. It was a quiet sort of day, spent moseying around the library in the morning, chatting to my mother and sister in NZ online in the afternoon and then going out for a coffee with Kazuo. Unfortunately, he slept through the early dinner time […]

New Shoes

It is official. I no longer have a little baby. Our house has been invaded by a toddler! It seemed to happen overnight, though I guess it has been a while in coming. Yesterday, after Akira had spent the afternoon hauling a soft-baby-shoe-clad Kazuo out of the slush and dirt at the ice skating rink […]

Pancake Tuesday

Last night we had a traditional Shrove Tuesday feast. For an atheist, the carnivore definitely subscribes to more of the religious feasts than I would have expected. And for a carnivore, he eschews meat even when on offer surprisingly often. So I prepared a little feast of savoury (mushrooms, cheese, sundried tomatoes) and sweet (maple […]

New Year

It seems a little silly to be recording my New Year’s Resolutions now, in February… But so far 2010 has kinda caught me by surprise and for a number of reasons, I have gotten off to a very slow start. So here I am, bearing in mind that it is also the start of a […]

Celebration

Things are happening rather fast around here suddenly. Two weeks ago we celebrated Kazuo’s first birthday, and as I already mentioned, we’d all been rather ill with a gastric flu, so we postponed the party for a week so he could properly recover. So the actual day was spent just with Mama and Dada and […]

Birthday Party Preparations

It’s party time at ours in a few hours. Enjoying the calm before the storm! Here is the cake – spicy pumpkin chocolate chip with cream cheese icing. Here is the happy little birthday boy – before he gets totally overwhelmed by everyone, and overloaded with sugar. Out for a walk now to clear our […]

A Whole Year of Family Life

This coming weekend we are finally celebrating Kazuo’s first birthday. After eventually ridding our house of the dreaded lurgy, that lingered around far too long for my liking, we are now ready to re-enter social circulation. I think it will really be a party for me… since I have only had three social encounters with […]

Holiday Highlights

When I last posted here, I had no idea how much of a toll the month ahead was going to take on me – both physically and emotionally. We have had a lovely holiday, and I hope you have too – but there have been some definite challenges. I had anticipated a few dramas as […]

London Bound

I have had a week off. Whew! Largely due to Kazuo coming down with his first big nasty cold, so I’ve had a clingy little guy who isn’t sleeping much (breathing badly and teething at the same time – poor blighter!). But we have had some lovely days at home just practising all the new […]