Foundations to build on

Posted on Friday 12 March 2010 at 09:10 - Post Comment

Blimey it's been a while.  And I always write that when I begin an entry.  Probably as posts have gone fron 1 a week to 2 a year! Still, what can I say?  NZ life has left me less time sitting at a PC, and more time out there living it!

So, what brings me back to the good old blog?  Well, the primary reason is entirely self servicing, and that's to share the news with all and sundry that after 3 years and close to 2 months of living in NZ, my stunning wife has just been offered - and has accepted - a permanent teaching job!

So HOOOO-FREAKIN'-RAH!  My goodness she's earnt it, as I don't think I've seen anyone recover from so many let downs and knock backs to keep on battling and finally have someone recognise her for what she is, and that's a bloody good teacher. 

In between my last post and her getting a job, we've toured NZ for a Christmas holiday, I've got into spearfishing in such a big way that Ton is getting a little worried, however friends and neighbours are loving the fish and lobster that comes their way!  My job had been up and down, but seems to be back on the upswing with some recent successes, and - best of all - we soon head off to the UK for  nice long holiday to go and catch up with the Whanau and missed but not forgotten friends.  Over 3 years since I was last there.  Sometimes it seems longer, but most of the time I can't believe that 3 years could ever pass so quickly.

One thing emigration teaches you, and that is discovering the inner strength that you always knew was there inside you, bit was never actually called on.  Emigration pulls that right to the surface, and I know that between Toni and I, drawing on that has both made us stronger as individuals and as a couple.  We have both achieved things we'd never have previously thought possible, and despite the ups and downs - right now is one of those rare moments that I can say I wouldn't change a thing.  That might have something to do with the 2 glasses of Sav in me right now, but least said about that the better, eh?

I love Wilber Smith books.  Have since I was about 15 or so and first read 'When a Lion Feeds'.  There's a great line in one of Wilbers books that talks about life as a river, with wild-ride rapids followed by periods of lowland calm.  In the same way I really feel that for us, this could well be the moment when a final set of rapids has been conquered, and a long period of calm is ahead.  Sure, there'll be floods and the like in the future, but right now a period of settled weather is just what is required for the next few years. 

Wow - the future really does await!  2 solid incomes means good bye to credit card debt, good bye to no savings, good bye to living on the edgeof solvency every month!  Hello peace of mind!  Hello forward planning!  Hello the future!

I'd like you now to lift your glasses and raise a toast to say 'Congratulations Toni - my wonderful, beautiful, and deserving wife'.

Sweet dreams