32 years of living

It's been quite some time since I blogged. I've thought about it and even mentally archived some blog topics but have pushed other things up on the priority list.

So since, I last blogged there's been quite of few things going on in my life (all of which I will mention in my upcoming blogs):

*Best Friend's Wedding in Puerto Rico (while I was 7 and half months prego)
*Finished teaching fellowship at Waikato University
*Waited 2 weeks for the delivery of my first child on November 26th, 2010 4:11am
*My mother, who is scared of heights and is claustrophobic, traveled 22 hours to visit us and her new granddaughter.
*Camped for the first time, New Year's Day with Boopsie & her Family
*Marcy, close university friend and sorority sister, came to the South Pacific (my first girl's trip as a mom)
*Started Teaching Fellowship at Auckland University
*Charlize has turned 6 months (she communicated through coos and interesting sounds, she sits & rolls and loves hearing people sing)
*Visited South Island (Nelson, Blenheim, Milford Sound, Te Anau, Queenstown)
*Skydived 12,000 feet

It's been a really busy few months. But it's great ones.

So today, I turn 32 years old (NYC time) and I thought I would begin to blog again...not only to share my experiences but also as a way to process the world around me and establish myself as a writer (someone who writes everyday).

I'm not going to say too much today in this entry...but just want to take the time to snapshot my life at this moment:

I'm sitting in a beautiful hotel room overlooking the Remarkable Mountain Ranges and lake on a brisk blue-sky day in Queenstown, with my beautiful daughter (still wearing the poka dot onesie and pink dress from last night's birthday dinner @ Amisfield...hey she fell asleep and I wasn't going to wake her to put PJs...)fussing as Clinton rolls her around the bed.

I feel grateful and blessed to have so much love in my life. Even from a far I feel the warmth from all the relationships in my life (birthday "petal" cupcakes, cards, facebook posts, emails, phone calls, texts and even a skype session with my mom who had a cake with a candle for me).

Thirty-one was "epic" (as labeled by Clinton), and Thirty-two I'll coast.