Lizzy here, by the way.
So, as I kept waiting until we had time to write a blog, and now I've realised that having a baby means we'll never have time for anything ever again in our lives, I thought I'd just write a speed catch up blog, and anyone reading will have to fill in the glaring omission of details for the past 2 months!
Here goes
April - Easter time - the CF give away Easter Cold Cross Buns on campus. Good on them!
And the Hodge family is faced with the awesome responsibility of keeping Nathan Paton's chooks alive while he is at Easter camp.
We got off to a bit of a faltering start as Mothy was convinced there ought to be three hens in here, but the first time we went and looked there were only two! (One had died before Nathan left though! Phew!)And Easter Monday we had a wander round Halswell Quarry. Nice spot.
April 21 and 22 Mothy went with the International Christian Fellowship to Hanmer for a couple of days. Here they are stopping off for a leg stretch on their way up the coast.
April 24 Marc and Lydia tied the knot at Tai Tapu church. Yay!
It's the 2nd wedding Gideon has attended, though we still couldn't convince him to wear a tie. Just his tank top knitted by Nan.
1st May is the Christian Fellowship weekend away at Mt Hutt Retreat Centre. Mothy did 4 talks, and Lizzy and Gideon enjoyed listening in. Evidently this book is important or something.
A major highlight of the past couple of months was Mothy's 100th pint of Goldings Bitter at the Twisted Hop in Christchurch. Brewed on site, it's a top drop apparently, and he had the honour of being able to pull his 100th pint himself - under the watchful eye of the professional, of course.
As he's reached the ripe old age of four months Gideon has been introduced to the joy of the jolly jumper. It's the best thing ever ever EVER he reckons.
Another reason I never get to blog these days: our lovely garden - although very lovely indeed - could keep us occupied all day every day if we let it! Sometimes I just have a go at tidying the bits I can see from the lounge.
May 16th, and Rob & Jenna got married in Chch - I don't have a nice picture of them unfortunately but here's some of the dodgy looking guests.
Gosh - I'm nearly up to date - anyone still reading this???For the long weekend the Hodge family went on one of Mothy's famous mystery weekends. We ended up in Greymouth on the West Coast.
A beautiful place - and we got all the nice weather while Christchurch had sleet. Heh heh heh. Gideon doesn't own any sunnies yet, so had to borrow Dad's for this picture.
The drive home was stunning too.
And I think that's it for now. The rest of our days have been filled in with eating, lots more sleeping than the previous 2 months, changing nappies, attending mum's coffee mornings, and for Mothy an inordinate amount of book stuff organising for Catalyst. Here he is hard at work.
The reason you can't see him is cos he'll be curled up in the foetal position whimpering over some credit notes and packing lists that bear no relation to the books he's actually ordered or received in these boxes. It's a sadly all-too-common occurrence. But slowly but surely, against all the odds, he's building up the stock to create NZ's first graduate Christian on-line resource centre. Yay-hay!
