Home again home again Aotearoa

We have landed slightly late and weary but not as weary as I thought. On board I spent a lovely couple of times with a couple whose crying baby could not be settled til grannie Linda came to the rescue... poor wee might had sore tummy .... but he soon settled and went to sleep for me twice... the parents were very relieved as I think the whole cabin was, he had a loud screamy cry.

We're now waiting in huge line of people at customs, but I caught the eye of an aid who took me to electronic check out and was through quickly. Mary-Ellen and grandson James were waiting for me with a big bunch of flowers and a welcome home balloon✈️ but biggest gift was themselves hugs galore, tears and laughter 😅😥❤️‍🩹💙...

I managed to stay awake til the afternoon when I succumbed to the closing of eyes. Later in the evening Mary-Ellen and I went to the school boarding house to say hello to my great granddaughter, Bailey who just kept hugging and kissing me arms firmly wrapped saying how much she missed me. It was a tearful reunion again, but happy as well.

After a good nights sleep grandson James chauffeured me to the supermarket as we prepared to make a family dinner for my great granddaughters 15th birthday. She had ordered a vegie lasagna, rice pudding with vanilla sponge (bought by Mary-Ellen) for a birthday cake!! So dinner took me the rest of the day to prepare. So glad to get here for her birthday.

Philip (son in law) picked her up after LLP school while Mary-Ellen and and I went out to the airport again to say hello to my daughter Sarah who was on her way to Motueka to be with my three grandsons, Liam, Connor and Lachlan while my son Matthew and his wife, Rachel go on a 6 week tour in America and Europe for their respective 50th birthdays.

We had a lovely family dinner and caught up with our various goings on my great granddaughter so more grown up and doing well at school. My grandson enjoying his time at his classes in a social work certificate course before undertaking his degree in early childhood next year.Read more