FIRSTS

First time in the city, first time on a plane, first time in a silk dress...So many, and I as I wandered around outside the restaurant helping to our little girl, I looked at the city again with new eyes, Imagining what it was like. So many new experiences, so many fresh connections happening...vroooommm, a car flies past and her head wips around wondering what that was... and I wonder about how to explain it. It is a lot easier to imagine explaining about plants and waterfalls, and rocks...with new eyes I appreciate once again the miracle that is life and I am great-full.

She has a window into my heart

Tai has arrived!

Tai Marama Mientje Horton - our pacific princess has arrived home. A smooth ceasarean birth at Nelson hospital on Wednesday the 12th of July, at 14:04, she weighed 7.14 pds or 3.595 kg. We stayed all together at the hospital for four days, me on the floor beside Sachas bed and Tai mostly in one of our arms. Sacha recovered very quickly and was walking around on the second day! Now we are home in Rototai (part of where her name comes from) and have settled back in to grow together as a family. So many firsts to come... now her first picture and blog on the net. Love to all the family and friends from us three...xxx ooo

Mooi Sacha lieve

Growing a Family

Growing a family inside myself, I realise a sense of peace and groundedness not before imagined. The growing being inside my Schatje teaching me things before I have even seen him/her with my eyes, only with ultra-sound scan. I look at children around me with new eyes these days, seeing their beauty and grace, noticing the miracle of our existence. I pray for a healthy baby and easy-safe birth.