:: Happy Easter! ::

Happy Easter!

I hope you all had a wonderfully relaxing weekend. My Easter long weekend was spent at the coast with my entire family (have you ever tried fitting 12 adults, a 7-year-old and a 7-month-old into a three bedroom apartment? Cosy and fun!) and at home relaxing watching episodes of Carnivale through a chocolate-induced haze. I had a fantastic time off and starting work on Wednesday was hard!

The Easter Bunny found me both at home and up the coast and I now have enough chocolate to last me right the way through to next Easter!

This Easter we were lucky enough to have a five day long weekend, because Easter coincided with ANZAC Day. One day I would like to go to a dawn service to honour the brave young men who defended our country so many years ago.

I think I'm going to have to hit the gym twice as hard from now on. I need to work off all the sugar! Does anyone's tummy hurt as much as mine does? Too much chocolate, but oh so delicious.

:: You've Got Mail ::

I'm not going to lie, this past week has been pretty awful. I've been cooped up inside with bronchitis and have been spending a lot of time in my room with my asthma nebuliser. Oh, isn't that sorry image! But then, on Friday afternoon Mr LG came over like a knight in shining armour carrying in his arms some parcels that had never looked more exciting after a week of seeing only the inside of my bedroom walls!

The first parcel was some of the most vibrant and lovely miniature roses I have ever seen. Yellow, orange, and a wonderful combination of yellow and red in the one rose! Tell me, have you ever seen red and yellow roses like these before? I sure haven't, apparently they're from South Africa!

The next two packages were my first pen pal letters! So exciting! Both of my lovely friends from New Zealand (Jess and Hayley) came to my rescue and helped brighten my week. This first package is from Jess and contains some wonderful things all made in New Zealand - red licorice, butterscotch chocolate, a recycled notebook, a New Zealand pencil, sunflower seeds (which I can't wait to grow in my garden!), stickers and a letter! I can't wait to send a package back to her!

The second letter came from Hayley. We met through the Dear Darlings pen pal swap. It was written on the prettiest of paper (and she has the coolest hand writing!) and the shimmery green envelope was right up my alley! I can't wait to write back to her!

I have some mail outgoings too, but I can't show you them just yet for risk of spoiling it for the lovely recipients!

I hope you are all having a fabulous weekend!

Much love.