Busy as a bumblebee

Back again. Yay!

So much work to catch up on. Not enough time in a day. 

And my poor baby has upper teeth coming out all at once! Long nights for me. Boohoo. Now 10 1/2 months old.

The little Gizmo is doing fine, now 18 weeks old. Naughty as hell though. Total opposite to Babee. Miss Babee still. 

In the middle of winter. Different here compared to snowy London. 

Feels like friday!

Time flies

Its half way through the year already. Sebastian is 9 months and I'm still breastfeeding. In a few months time, he'll be a year old. Gosh! And I'm still not blogging regularly :) Things have so gotta change.

What have I accomplished within the months that have gone past? Well, we got a new puppy. He's a Shih Tzu. He's brindle and white. Lovely fella. Naughty but adorable :) We decided to get one and flew him down from Cape Town on 29th May. Struggled naming him. It took us over a week to finally settle with Gizmo. Gizmo from the Gremlins. He looks like one. He's now 12 weeks of age. Funny enough, he so happened to be born on the 16 March, which is the very day Babee past away :(

Anyway, Emil's dad has moved to the same town as us due to his company work and has been staying with us for 2 weeks plus coz of the shortage of accommodation available here. This mining town has way too many people to accommodate.

Its winter now and there has been cold fronts coming and going. Never thought it'd get this cold here in SA. Been having heaters running and the fireplace going. Even poor Gizmo struggles to go out in the mornings for a poop :)

Its been a while and alot has happened, good and bad

The title says it all...

Its been nearly a year since I last left a post on here. You could say I've been slacking, which truely I have been but then I'd boil it down really to coping with my new baby :) Sebastian Giorgio Bighi was born on 08.09.10. Folks came down from Malaysia and Shamini and Jean from London and Marseilles. Before that, we had quite a few visitors... Monika from London; Rima and Jon from London and Emil's bro, Christian from the States, after his cruise ship job came to an end. 2010 ended well as we celebrated a quiet New Years eve at father in-law's with the family.

To cut the long story short.... we moved from Mauritius to South Africa at the end of November 2010. Stayed in father in-law's place for three months, went travelling to Kwazulu natal area, Durban, Uhmlanga etc and went to Emil's family holiday home in Keimouth, which is near East London. Not to forget, Sebastian and myself went for a two week break to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Then finally moved to a small mining town called Kathu in the Northern Cape in South Africa. Emil got a job here.

After being here in Kathu for a week, something tragic happened to my Babee.

" My babee was murdered by 2 Staffys (neighbours dogs down the road). We asked them if they had seen Babee last wednesday but they said no, even they're workers said he ran past (obviously to divert us and put us off). They lied to us point blank. We have been hunting high and low for babee everywhere you could imagine. During the past few days, someone was taking down our posters in the housing complex. But we kept putting it back on. Then after fasting and praying the whole of yesterday, we got a call from another neighbour who came forward and told us that Babee was in their yard last wednesday and those dogs ran in and bite his neck and he was laid there dead. They also confirmed that a car which had a couple inside who was waiting for those neighbours saw everything but they when asked by us said they saw nothing. Thinking back, we realised they had a look like they were hiding something. They told the neighbour your dogs have done this and he got his workers to put Babee in a bag and throw him away. These people who came forward didn't know who babee belonged to and are willing to be our witnesses. They had a case before where they're friend who visited them got biten by those dogs and was hospitalised. The police here in Kathu didn't do anything about it.  " Something I have not quite got over yet. So sad. He will always be with me in my heart. I miss him sooo much. He should be here right now...

Rest In Peace my Babee ...

Loving Two

I walk along holding your 2-year-old hand,

basking in the glow of our magical

relationship. Suddenly I feel a kick from

within, as if to remind me that our time

alone is limited. And I wonder: how could I

ever love another child as I love you?

Then he is born, and I watch you. I watch

the pain you feel at having to share me as

you’ve never shared me before.

I hear you telling me in your own way,

“Please love only me”. And I hear myself

telling you in mine, “I can’t”, knowing, in

fact, that I never can again.

You cry. I cry with you. I almost see our

new baby as an intruder on the precious

relationship we once shared. A relationship

we can never quite have again.

But then, barely noticing, I find myself

attached to that new being, and feeling

almost guilty. I’m afraid to let you see me

enjoying him—as though I am betraying you.

But then I notice your resentment change,

first to curiosity, then to protectiveness,

finally to genuine affection.

More days pass, and we are settling into a

new routine. The memory of days with just

the two of us is fading fast.

But something else is replacing those

wonderful times we shared, just we two.

There are new times – only now, we are

three. I watch the love between you grow,

the way you look at each other, touch each

other.

I watch how he adores you — as I have for so

long. I see how excited you are by each of

his new accomplishments. And I begin to

realize that I haven’t taken something from

you, I’ve given something to you. I notice

that I am no longer afraid to share my love

openly with both of you.

I find that my love for each of you is as

different as you are, but equally strong.

And my question is finally answered, to my

amazement. Yes, I can love another child as

much as I love you—only differently.

And although I realize that you may have to

share my time, I now know you’ll never share

my love. There’s enough of that for both of

you – you each have your own supply.

I love you—-both. And I thank you both for

blessing my life. —Author Unknown

I found this piece which I thought was beautiful. I amy not have a two year old toddler but I have a two year old doggie which I am conscious about when our little one finally arrives :(

The Gremlin turns 2...

Its the 7th of the 7th month and its Babee, our little doggie's birthday today. He's 2 years old in dog years, which is 14 human years old. Can't believe we've had him for this long. I remember waking up one morning in 2008, with the brightest idea of getting a puppy. I got him that day itself. Driving home that day, boy I was in worry as I didn't even know the slightest of taking care of a dog, let alone taking care of myself! How could I manage to keep him healthy and alive? :) Well, it turned out fine. Babee's still a spoilt brat but he's a good boy really. 

I truely love this little gremlin. He lights up our lives and is family. 

Let there be many more birthdays to come... 

Its about time!

Its the 1st of July and its about time I get up off my lazy butt to write my first post for this blog. Have signed up for this ages ago but never got round to doing anything. I'm so lazy! Gotta get into gear and start being more disciplined! After all, its not long till I will be in a routine soon with the new member joining us on September 11th :)

A little run down on the recent past... currently in Mauritius, came here with my husband in mid- December 2009, a day after our registration in London. Its now been 6 months since we've been here and 3 months left till our new baby arrives. Time flies! Unbelievable...


Anyways, my husband started work here in November 2009, whilst I was still living in London, trying to wrap up the shipping, house, flying our dog (Babee) etc. It was a long month and a half till we saw each other. Although, we were constantly in touch daily online and managed to rack up our phone bills. hehe... 


We got registered on Saturday, 12/12/2009 in London, which we shared with our beloved friends. They made our day so very special. Something that we'll never forget. Especially the next day when we rushed to clear our house with the help of so many of our friends. We rushed to the airport to find ourselves caught in a standstill on the motorway and having to divert through the countryside using a tom tom. We nearly missed putting our dog on the cargo flight, let alone us on the flight (check-in desk closed) as we had to drop off the hired car which ended up a mission, leaving it at the airport and having a friend to go to their desk at the airport to inform them. We ran to the departure gate only to find the flight delayed by 2 hours! Gosh what a day it was!


Anywaysss... we made it to beautiful Mauritius in the end :) 


Enjoyed a night's stay at the Hilton the weekend after, for my husband's christmas work function. It was amazing at that resort. 


Spent Xmas at quarantine with our Babee. He got out of quarantine day before my birthday :) Very pleased. Same day we found out we were pregnant...