For Christmas I went up to my cousin Grahams - it was so nice to finally have Christmas together with his wife Sarah and wee gorgeous son Jacob - one little man that melts my heart day after day!!! I designed my own template for this years gingerbread house which Im proud to say stood up even while being gluten free! It was nice to experience Christmas with a bustling house hold as its usually pretty quiet for us in New Zealand and being with my cousins really kept the homesickness at bay which was good! Its ironic though because I waited my whole life to have Christmas with my family over here as I felt I had grown up missing out on big family Christmas's and then it was there right in front of me and I would have given anything to be at home with my parents and brother - not that I didn't have an awesome time with my family or anything but you really do realise how precious holidays like that are when your not with your parents. Christmas consists of, 'what do you want for your present' etc (even though its about being together, were all guilty of saying what we want for our Christmas presents!) I can honestly and wholeheartedly say that when I eventually return to New Zealand I will never ask for anything for Christmas ever again, so long as I'm with my parents and brother, I will be very happy and thankful!
Anyway, just something for ya'll to think about!
After visiting my cousins I went on to Uncle and Aunties for a couple of days so on boxing day we were at my Aunties brothers house with all their family and it was just the nicest evening - I felt so welcomed and at home and I felt like I had two Christmas days in a row! And seeing my Uncle playing Wii the next day was just the cherry on the cake....
Next stop was my other Uncles and Aunties house - I was really hoping to see snow there but it just wasn't meant to be this year! It was great to catch up with them and spend time in their gorgeous cottage but then I fell ill with an awful flu and was in bed most of my visit with them! I came back to London and just got sicker and was completely out of it for a week - whenever I said in NZ I had the flu Dad would always say 'You just have a little cold, you Kiwi's don't know the true meaning of flu!' and boy was he right, this was like a viral stomach flu and cold flu all rolled into one! So I ended up missing the first week back at work as well... but Im all better now :) New Years resolution? To fully focus on living and being in London, I spent a lot of time last year constantly emailing and skyping everyone in NZ and it just consumed far too much of my time. Whats up next? London Fashion Week and Paris in February... look out for my next post then!
