Term Two Holidays

This term the holidays were quite. Mark and I started the holidays by celebrating his birthday in Matakana and Leigh. We then came home to a quite few weeks.

Mark was out on the boats twice, and did some diving for work. He spent some time working on his projects and writing. I spent most of time time knitting for the babies in my life who are making their grand entrance this fall, reading and generally doing things that make me feel content, like napping, drinking warm tasty tea and standing in the sunshine.

A hooded baby blanket for my newest nephew 

An itty-bity baby hat 

The start of the next blanket

Mark and I took advantage of the slow pace of life by cooking some adventurous meals that require a bit more time than either of us have to commit to during the school terms, taking walks up into the village to visit the butchers, the fish mongers and the tea shop I have discovered, and watching a few movies at home.

We also took advantage of the time off to visit with friends, dine out at one of our favorite restaurants (and Indian place up the street), check out a new restaurant that just opened in the village for a late breakfast, skype lots of friends from home, and hit up the library for some new books.

The less glamorous side of the holiday was filled with a big clean of the apartment, catching up on laundry, renting a steam cleaner for the carpet, finally hanging some photos on the walls,  and all of the household things that can sometimes get neglected in the busy term.

Mark is devouring another book

Mark has hung up the blank canvases so we know where to put them and he paints as he finds inspiration. There are a few painted already around the photos on the right hand side and one with the two photos on the left hand side. We have photo frames for the blank places, but we have to go and print out some NZ photos.

I think we can both say we feel refreshed and ready to tackle the next 10 weeks. If it is anything like term 2, it is going to fly by and we will be on vacation again before we know it. We are still debating on what we want to do for the Term 3 holidays. We've been throwing around going more North than we usually do as a lot of the things we have done are to the South of Auckland, but we shall see where we end up come October.