Today is the first day of the rest of my life. With little Aneke now six months old, little Ms Whare (33 years old) has started a new job in the City working 3 days a week. And so this week I have started my new regime of working a few long days early in the week and taking Fridays off to look after Aneke.
With enough time to write a blog post for the first time in about 3 months, it must be going okay.
6:10am, the faint noises of Aneke talking to herself and then starting to grizzle meant it was time to get up. She must have been hungry because she knocked back 220ml from the bottle. Whare got on with her morning work routine while I managed to make some toast, a smoothie and put the coffee on. As we were up early, Aneke and I dropped Whare off at the station.
After a few yawns I knew Aneke was tired and it meant time for me to do some work. I put her to bed and read to her a paper on Peak Oil. She quickly fell asleep. I managed to quickly hang out some washing and then work for about half an hour before she woke up, for another feed (and poo). She then lay around with her nappies off while I pottered around, and when she started to grizzle I put a nappy on and played the guitar. I’ve been a bit slack on my guitar playing for the last year so Aneke was enjoying this new experience.
Happy AK Friday 14 Jan
I then looked at Nicole’s recipe book on how to make a pizza base and decided I’d better google it. With a YouTube clip to guide me I managed to make the base with Aneke watching on and eating some left over roast potatoes.
Papa Jim making dough while the AK eats potato
Sleep 11:40am – 1:20pm. Hung out for a bit, walked around house, checked mail…..nappy free time. Started to grizzle so tried to fed her some roasted veges. She loved the pumpkin. The the bottle. Seemed keen but only drank about 50ml. A bit of dancing, lying on the kitchen floor watching Papa Jim do the dishes….the AK started to grizzle so I put a mat on the kitchen floor so I could talk to her…… but then it was time for a walk. And as soon as she hit the buggy, it was all good.
After 10 minutes of walking she was out to it so I detoured around and then parked up on a park bench in the park and read my book (on parks – no just kidding, on the founder of Contiki tours ‘Only two seats left’). After 20 minutes I headed back down towards the beach and continued on my mission for supplies for pizza, coffee and beer….
With feta and olives for the pizza I was making for dinner in hand I then splurged on some organic bacon for breakfast (a bit pricey but oh so tasty) and a flat white. Aneke had woken up not long before we hit the Deli so when my coffee arrived I picked her up so she could watch the world go by with me.
Watching the world go by at the deli
Then a brief stop at the fruit and vege shop before a cheeky pint at the bowling club. A few random chats with the bowling club gang and then off to the train station to meet Mama Whare. We were a bit early but I read a bit more of my book while rocking the AK until she started to grizzle just before the train arrived. With the AK in hand and happy as Larry, Whare was approaching when the train made a loud noise and set the AK off crying, but she was very happy to see Mama Whare.
We only just made it back to the park to feed the AK who was ravinous. A nice interlude on our walk home though. And then time for the AK to eat an orange and then get into her PJs. Whare did the bed routine this time, while I worked the pizza.
Just another day in Paradise.
Tags: Paekakariki, pizza
