Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: Unpacking saga

So Gavin left to go back off shore on Wednesday last week. Rachel and I are opening a new taxi company that operates at 4:30am to Luton airport. I am not so sure how the addition to the family will affect this service. The problem with finding a replacement service is that we now do not have a 'Nanny' or 'Bumpa' to trade airport trips with, and the bus service from here does not start in time for Gavin to get the first flight.

Being moms taxi suddenly got a LOT better, Gavin bought me a SatNav computer for the car. I know it sounds like an expensive gimmic, but if you knew how many times Rachel and I got lost when he was away on his first trip you would realize that it is actually a sanity saver. It will also help make sure some sort of swear words are not included in my childrens vocabulary ( who knows what they may pick up with a frustrated mother trying to drive, read a map and battle with her zero sense of direction) I landed up going about 15mins in totally the opposite direction to were we needed to go one day and the next it took me and hour to go somewhere that should have taken 15mins! Poor Rachel now asks are we lost every few minutes in the car! BUT no more, THE Lady now tells us where to go. I even managed to get to Jenni the most direct way on Sunday ( we have been there 4 times already, each time getting lost a different way) for the first time.

So back to Wednesday, gavin left at 4:30am care of R&S taxi and all the goods that we shipped from South Africa arrived at about 8am. This is sort of what my lounge looked like after they left.

Having an extra passanger along for a free ride makes unpacking quite difficult. Adding a 2 year old into this equations means that so far most of what we have done amounts to creating piles of mess and chaos all over. Jenni has been a star and came to help on Thursday night after school and also took Rachel for the day yesterday so i could get a bit done. A few pictures of her at Aunty Jenni - they get on like a house on fire which is wonderful, especially since she is really missing the rest of the family in South Africa.

We are still falling over stuff, the biggest problem is the lack of cupboard and storage space that one typically finds in UK house and of course the mountian of stuff that we send over. One of the good things is that we have unpacked Rachel's books and toys and this has helped keep her happy, the problem is that most of the time she wants Mommy to play with her and not unpack. This is her in one of her dressing up outfits that she found.

Otherwise we are fine, we went to ballet today which she really likes, i forgot to get a picture, she looks so sweet in her little ballet clothes. Can't believe we only have a month to when no2 makes his apperance.