Opportunities

First of all, Happy Birthday Darryl!!! :) xxx luv ya hun!

Now... Opportunities, they come and go, whether or not you want to take an opportunity thrown your way is completely up to you, but they are part of what shapes your life, you either take this path, or a new one, and where will it lead you? you either find out or you dont i guess!

We have been blessed this year, from today we have 2 opportunites infront of us, one personal, one business, both of them fantastic for the future of our family. we have talked about it, argued about it (as ya do!), thought about it, and decided that both opportunities we will take. Its a very exciting (and stressful and busy!) time for us, i cant talk much about the business thing yet (confidentiality contracts and all that!) but for the personal one, it means that very soon, we will be proud home owners :)

My mother and her partner are applying for a new Mortgage tonight, Darryl and i get to find a house we like, (with potential preferrably) in a certain price bracket, we pay the full Mortgage, insurance, rates etc, with my Mum and her Partner owning the house, but we get to do anything we want to it. (making sense? good!) once we decide to sell the house, Mum and T will get their deposit back, plus half share profit, and we will get anything we put into the house (mortgage payments, renovation money etc) plus half share profit, this gives Mum the opportunity to invest some money like she has always wanted to do, and gives us the opportunity to own our first home without the major hassles (and huge mortgages) that some people have to deal with.

I love my Mum so much for this opportunity, because without it i doubt VERY much if we could ever get into our own home, it is so very hard and we are on quite a high income, i would hate to know how people on low-average incomes make it, because i find it hard enough! i guess you move out of Auckland to own your own home.... but we are SO excited, and totally have our DIY caps on! so great opportunities coming our way, and we are truely blessed :)

We have today, given Kaylees daycare 2 weeks compulsary notice that she will not be going anymore, at $100 a week for 3 half days (inc food) it has been a blessing for me, but its something else unfortunatly that we have just got to cut back on, we have her on the waiting list at our local private kindy, so she will go there soon, at $14 a session its a hell of a lot cheaper!! (Public Kindy doesnt start until age 3.5-3.8 years here, so thats a while away yet).

I took Olivia for her 3 mths immunisations today (shes 4mths old today! can you believe it!!!) she screamed so bad, i nearly cried too!! gave her a feed straight afterwards though and that settled her heaps and heaps, now shes fast asleep, and Kaylee is meant to be fast asleep but is quietly trashing her bedroom!!!

Kaylee is still going great with her toilet training! even the occasional Poo, which rocks!!

You know when your childless, the thought of talking about wees and poos is a bit gross... now its just everyday chatter! lol

theres some REALLY funky new music out at the moment, im loving Hinder, and the Kooks, and My Chemical Romance, and Fall Out Boy and fergie and Gwen Stefani (have always LOVED Gwen Stefani & No Doubt) and so much more, its funky, its basey, its groovey, love it!

I got my hair done on Saturday with the voucher i got for my birthday, if i am to have one vice in my life, i choose getting my hair done regularly, i absolutely LOVE it! i feel SO much better when i have it done, i love going to the salon, having mummy time, letting someone pamper ME! (i LOVE the massage chairs they have at the salon i go to when you get your hair shampooed!) I am no sporting a funky short do (again, lol) with red (BRIGHT) and blondey highlights, its very different and i LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!!! sometimes i just have to get out of the mummy zone and feel like me again, and this does it for me every time!

still no luck selling my damn car.... SUX!! we have dropped the price as far as it can go, and have had a wee bit of interest... but usually nothing comes of it...

we are trying to sell Darryls boat too, no luck there either... dammit!

Olivia is great, Kaylee is great, I am great, Darryl is great (if not getting a little old! haha)

Over and out from the land of Carla :) xxx