I love this quote. I just had to share it. Every time I think about adoption, I think about the coming together of the 2 loves of my life:
It has been said that adoption is more like a marriage than a birth: two (or more) individuals, each with their own unique mix of needs, patterns, and genetic history, coming together with love, hope, and commitment for a joint future.
You become a family not because you share the same genes, but because you share love for each other.
- Joan McNamara
No, before you ask – we are not pregnant nor did we just adopt a baby. It doesn’t mean though that I don’t check out maternity and baby stores online for pressies for my friends and family who are expecting and those who have little bubs.
If you are pregnant, have a baby or you are looking for that perfect gift for someone, we definitely recommend you check out Plush Baby NZ.
Why do we recommend Plush Baby? Because we know the owner, Angela Day. Ange used to work for us before moving to Wellington and until now, we haven’t found the right person to replace this wee gem! That’s how great she was!
Check the rest of this post because at the bottom, I’ll let you know how you can win more than $10,000 worth of prizes! 
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The traffic in other parts of the world are defined by the volume of motor vehicles in that flood their busy roads.
I like New Zealand’s, specifically the South Island of the country’s kind of traffic where the roads are busy with the fluffy, cute kind of ‘disruption’ – a flock of sheep!
When I first visited New Zealand in the summer of 1999, scenes like these in the provinces of New Zealand abound. Not anymore though. You’d think having lived here for almost 10 years that a flock of sheep blocking our way would no longer enthrall me but they do!
I still feel like a giddy townie each time I across them on the road. I just had to take a photo (or two!)
Disclaimer – Please note that NO SHEEP was harmed in the creation of this blog entry
So my friends and family here in New Zealand catch up on a regular basis. We’ve decided to ’spice up’ our get-togethers, we’ll start a Cuisine Challenge where each of us cooks a dish (from scratch, if possible) relevant to the “theme”.
For our first-ever Cuisine Challenge, our theme is based on Filipino dishes (surprise, surprise!) which we titled “Lugawan in Worcester St”.
Lugaw means rice porridge. It’s a popular dish in the Philippines. We have it for either breakfast, lunch, morning or afternoon tea. Yes, we’re Asians and we have rice on almost everything and almost every meal!
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Just the words “School Report” give me the shivers. It makes me think: What if they put something embarrassing on my report?
Or even worse, some thing really really bad?
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