Actually, I celebrated making it to the end of my first year of teaching, we escaped directly to Auckland for Xmas (with family and borrowed bunnies),
then got down to Blackball for Wayne's Nana's 90th (sensational!). Term 1 for 2010 came - and has also gone. Amazing!
When I put it all together like that it feels like the whooooooosh I felt as it all happened! And, instead of stopping for a rest today, we drove to Sanson to welcome a new member of the Naylor family. He is sweet, quite small, and called Scout. He is a 11 week old West Highland terrier/Bichon cross, and here is one pic I managed of him this afternoon as we settled him in:
