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The Kiwi Dream

by Elle

Rated: GC · Book · Experience · #1924447

Life in Auckland, New Zealand as I juggle a job, two teens, a husband and a WDC addiction!

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'The Kiwi Dream' is to do your OE (overseas experience) and then own your own house on a quarter acre section... I'm....not quite there yet.

I live in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city. It might be the largest, but it's still only just over a million people, so not a big city by international standards.

I am married (sixteen years now!) to Dodgy Steve

. He's not addicted to WDC as I am. His current obsessions are whisky and fishing!

We have two children - Jayden is 18 and Caitlin is 14. They are both the light and the bane of my life. You'll see that, in this blog. Most of my dramas are caused by the smallish people in my life!

My big dream is to buy that home on the quarter acre section, and then when the kids have left home, TRAVEL!

The rest you can find out as you read along.

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Elle

Nov 1, 2023 at 10:47pm
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I just found this conversation again, and man, it made me miss you guys!

Kåre เลียม Enga

Oct 19, 2023 at 1:28am
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This is the video that goes with Ann's post.

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Beacon's Light

Aug 24, 2022 at 11:41pm
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You both look good together.

Elle

Jul 10, 2019 at 10:09pm
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Can I read the blurb, StephBee

? I accepted one blindly just recently and regretted it.

Elle

Jul 9, 2019 at 5:17pm
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Yeah, I've learned that lists help me too. And I often leave them for my kids. Your housework example sounds exactly like Jayden.

I wish we'd realised this earlier. He's 18 now! Imagine what a difference this could have made if we'd figured it out five years ago!

Krista

Jul 9, 2019 at 10:54am
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Oh man, Ravyn was diagnosed with ADD at 7 and I felt like a terrible mom. She would constantly forget the most simple things and say "I don't know" nearly every time I asked her a question. Here I was getting on to her for not paying attention and it turned out she really couldn't help it.

We used medication for a while, but when I started teaching her at home I took her off of it. It took a while for us both to find a good routine, but I think we've made a lot of progress. I used to write out a list of things for her to do because if I said, "While I'm gone I want you to wash the dishes, take out the trash, and give the dog a bath." She would start washing the dishes, stop to use the bathroom (or whatever), totally forget to finish the dishes, and then have no idea what she was supposed to be doing. She's 15 now and writes her own lists, which I think is a good sign!

Charlie ~

Jul 9, 2019 at 12:42am
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I'm so stoked to hear that Rhonda is doing okay and her daughter is doing okay. I miss her a lot.

Hopefully everything is going okay with Jayden! I think it's awesome that Caitie is getting work experience already at 14.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Jul 7, 2019 at 10:15pm
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No word from Jayden may be good at this point.

I've only done one of the UPC poems. The Welsh forms are daunting so I need to sit down with them and work my way around the poetics... because I'm sure there's more to the forms than the links mention. Welsh is a musical culture so I suspect their poetry is as well.

I didn't sign up for 30DBC but I occasional steal a prompt. I had problems with the prompts in May, but then my life was a disaster in May.

StephBee

Jul 4, 2019 at 12:00pm
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Very interesting. I never really knew this. Would you be willing to review my short "Journey of the Heart?" It's on Amazon now, so not quite an ARC, but I could go for an honest review. I'll send you a copy? Let me know. No pressure. Steph

StephBee

Jul 4, 2019 at 11:58am
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A perfect haiku for the picture!

#932. Head over to my new blog!
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