IT is HERE at last!!!

My passport has that little blue sticker in it that says  "Residents Visa"    Whoooooooo  Whooooooo

Sorry NZ  I DO get to stay!  These are my NZ family and I am so happy to be able to say to the grandies:

"Gangan is not going back to South Africa to STAY"  (but definitely going back to visit)


To my South African grandies......  Gangan is coming Soon!!!
Now that I will be allowed back into New Zealand I can come and visit

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Happy Birthday big boy!


Tyler you will be a whole year old and I will not be there for your first birthday. I love you darling!

To Macaela and Stacey I am coming to take pictures and to give you loads of love and kisses.  Miss you girls!
Stacey, you too have a birthday soon. Love you sweetheart have a happy birthday!

19 March 2012 A new set of Documents

In November I lodged my next set of documents for Residence in NZ.

This week I got a letter to say that my application was being attended to and being reviewed as to whether my health issues still made me ineligible for residency.

I was also asked to provide proof that we are still together as a couple. :)

yes this made me smile. We have been married 30 years so I rang up and asked if I could send the cards and photos from our 30th wedding anniversary dinner!!!

how else do you prove you are still together?? The grand children could be asked in a court of law where Gangan sleeps or where Oupa stays I guess! LOL

I am still happy and healthy. Have had a really busy time of late and found myself hitting a brick wall last week. Was actually a little afraid that I was just as tired as before I found the cancer in my right breast. Don't want to think that that was a problem... but no! I am fine just a little over-worked. Too much hay on my fork!

This week I am making chocolates, making coconut slices and also putting a demonstration of Chocolate making together. Saturday sees me volunteering to make sandwiches for the local Lionesses who are catering lunch packs for the local college centennial reunion.

I would also like to get a few things done on my sewing and quilting table. Intending to go off to visit my "Bestie" soon and with the new little girl baby coming along soon I should be finishing off some quilts!!!

I have a list of about 7 promised quilts and winter is looming large in NZ.

so I guess I will have to wiggle to get it all done........

.... but for today? I am resting.

Of babies,blood tests and our 30th wedding anniversary

Wow! what a year and it is only 27th of February 2012

Mum and Dad have been for a 3 month long visit and it was great to hug them both again.

The opening of a new bridge at Kopu saw me meeting the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

I now have 6 grandchildren!!! With another on the way by May this year.

I will then have 6 granddaughters and 1 grandson. What a joy!!!

So much for giving up on life! ME ???? NO WAY!!!

I live in an awesome country and love everything about it. My health is really good now even though I am exceptionally active I still book myself an "off" day once in a while and no longer feel guilty when a PJ day is declared!

I am quilting, babysitting, knitting, building community and delivering meals to sick friends..... AND I LOVE IT!!!!

God has been good to me and given me a heart for those who are ill and in need of helps. I am enriched by the care I receive in return.

6 February saw my Dh and I married for 30 years. What a privilege to still have my school sweetheart by my side through all that we have been through .

On the health front... My bloods are all good and my mammograms are great!!! As for bone density scans? 100%, In fact, they are better now than when I was first diagnosed. HOW GOOD IS GOD!!!

I have been invited to resubmit my residency application in NZ and did so in November and now I wait.

Still on a work permit until next april but ever hopeful that soon I will be resident in this amazing land.

DH has entered the New Zealand Dairy Manager of the Year Competition and we are delighted to have come through the first phase of the Regionals and have now completed the 2nd phase too. AND NOW WE WAIT!!!!

9 March 2012 is the Awards dinner and we will hear how we have fared.

EXCITING! even if we do not place it has been an awesome experience for us both. Culminating in a really good celebratory awards dinner where our competitors are also honored.

Whoooooop Whoooop I am soooooo HIGH on LIFE!!!! BRING IT ON!!!