Georgebulldog
11th July 2008, 10:50 AM
I wasn’t going to do a 6 month post but I love it here so much I had to let you all know. Driving (& getting lost) around Lower Hutt yesterday I thought how lucky I was to be living around such beautiful scenery, could have sworn I saw snow on some mountains but I was trying to drive at the time so couldn’t be sure, maybe someone from that area can confirm for me.
I don’t feel we have had time to sit still & think since we’ve been here so maybe my 1 year post may be very different.
When we arrived I was 19 weeks pregnant so keen to get settled so I could get a midwife. We managed to find a lovely house with a smallish but big enough garden & managed to sort out a mortgage & move in within 2 weeks, luckily it was the right thing to do as we love the area & it’s great to be close to everything. So within a month of being here we had dealt with our daughter with chicken pox, bought a car & bought a house, not bad, love the way that the Kiwis work so quickly with things.
My in laws arrived a week before Olivia was born, great to have some family around for the new arrival, 5 weeks after her birth I’m now busy with all the stuff a new born brings & trying to keep Rebecca (33 months) occupied. So still no time to think too much about what we’ve done. I do forget I’m even here sometimes & it takes an advert to come on to think “I’m in New Zealand” I hope that means I’ve settled down.
I’m looking forward to meeting some more people as not had much chance to make too many friends but the ones I have are great, your in ther Northen5. I’m sure that will come when Rebecca starts kindie (still getting used to that word & feel like I can’t pull it off?!)
I often think if I could go back to how we were before would I & I must say I’m still not sure, I liked where I lived, liked my house & had made some good friends after having Rebecca, so they were all new friends but on leaving it was like I had known them a lot longer. Knowing children bring new friends I know it will happen again.
OH likes his job which is good & hopefully room to grow there too.
I feel like we get out a lot more but not sure if that’s because our house doesn’t need any DIY or we feel we have to because there is so much around us but it’s great to have weekends back & so much going on around us, I really would recommend Wellington to anyone. I was very worried about the wind but so far it’s not that bad although I still have 6 more months that I haven’t seen. I love the way you get a few bad days then a few sunny bright days, makes you forget the bad ones, it’s great, maybe I suffered with SAD in the UK.
I find I miss the silliest things, Heinz tomato ketchup, I don’t even have that much but I just haven’t found a good one yet. I haven’t shopped for clothes yet so can’t comment on that one. I was a big E Bayer & find Trade me OK but I forget there aren’t so many people here so there are not as many things on there when I want them.
I already worry that once our girls have grown up they will be off somewhere else & I’ll want to go with them, hate the thought they would be on the other side of the world from me. I need to stop worrying as it’s too many years away to think about.
I wont go into the whole family & staying in touch as it’s just too long a story to explain.
So all in all I think this was a good move & so far so good.
Sorry to have gone on so much but it was good for me to get it down!
I don’t feel we have had time to sit still & think since we’ve been here so maybe my 1 year post may be very different.
When we arrived I was 19 weeks pregnant so keen to get settled so I could get a midwife. We managed to find a lovely house with a smallish but big enough garden & managed to sort out a mortgage & move in within 2 weeks, luckily it was the right thing to do as we love the area & it’s great to be close to everything. So within a month of being here we had dealt with our daughter with chicken pox, bought a car & bought a house, not bad, love the way that the Kiwis work so quickly with things.
My in laws arrived a week before Olivia was born, great to have some family around for the new arrival, 5 weeks after her birth I’m now busy with all the stuff a new born brings & trying to keep Rebecca (33 months) occupied. So still no time to think too much about what we’ve done. I do forget I’m even here sometimes & it takes an advert to come on to think “I’m in New Zealand” I hope that means I’ve settled down.
I’m looking forward to meeting some more people as not had much chance to make too many friends but the ones I have are great, your in ther Northen5. I’m sure that will come when Rebecca starts kindie (still getting used to that word & feel like I can’t pull it off?!)
I often think if I could go back to how we were before would I & I must say I’m still not sure, I liked where I lived, liked my house & had made some good friends after having Rebecca, so they were all new friends but on leaving it was like I had known them a lot longer. Knowing children bring new friends I know it will happen again.
OH likes his job which is good & hopefully room to grow there too.
I feel like we get out a lot more but not sure if that’s because our house doesn’t need any DIY or we feel we have to because there is so much around us but it’s great to have weekends back & so much going on around us, I really would recommend Wellington to anyone. I was very worried about the wind but so far it’s not that bad although I still have 6 more months that I haven’t seen. I love the way you get a few bad days then a few sunny bright days, makes you forget the bad ones, it’s great, maybe I suffered with SAD in the UK.
I find I miss the silliest things, Heinz tomato ketchup, I don’t even have that much but I just haven’t found a good one yet. I haven’t shopped for clothes yet so can’t comment on that one. I was a big E Bayer & find Trade me OK but I forget there aren’t so many people here so there are not as many things on there when I want them.
I already worry that once our girls have grown up they will be off somewhere else & I’ll want to go with them, hate the thought they would be on the other side of the world from me. I need to stop worrying as it’s too many years away to think about.
I wont go into the whole family & staying in touch as it’s just too long a story to explain.
So all in all I think this was a good move & so far so good.
Sorry to have gone on so much but it was good for me to get it down!