fishing

Ian has his first meeting with his new boss tomorrow. We have been reflecting on this new venture and feeling a little uneasy about the whole thing. Mostly just because sometimes it sucks that we've got to earn a living! It is much more fun just hanging out as a family!

The job searching here was more positive than we expected it to be in that at one point Ian had 10 potential jobs lined up. Despite having these 10 "lines in the water" only one of them has come to anything. It is a little bizarre that he should catch one huge mackerel of a job and not even have any sustained nibbling on the other lines (very dodgy metaphor - better back away from this one before my blog gets blocked from too many computers). He is due to sign the contract tomorrow which includes a clause that he has to work for 12 months before he is entitled to any holiday and then it is only 4 weeks! 3 weeks is standard in NZ. Luckily we have holiday booked in March so he has to get that.

I have been so grateful to God that everything has been prepared for us here just as He promised through various people back home. Sometimes I imagine that it has to be hard and a real struggle for it to be from God yet we have fallen into a great church and made new friends already and a great job has come our way before the money situation got really tight. I was reminded in church on sunday that God really does love us, and sometimes that means that he wants to give us good things just because he loves us. Yes, he is more interested in our character than our comfort and we will have lots of lessons in trust and faith to learn as we continue to do life here, but for now we are just enjoying every blessing and praying that God keeps us in His will.

To mark our last weekend of freedom, we are going to Waiheke Island to stay in a little cottage by the sea. No doubt it will be quite an expedition with all the baby gear but it will be nice to explore a bit more of the territory around auckland.