Dare we get excited???

I received a call yesterday from the moving company saying that our container would be in Port Taranaki in New Plymouth on Tuesday!!!! And that if all goes well, we should have it at our house by Friday. I don't even care that Billy and Kaigan will be away for the weekend. I'll manage just fine with some neighborhood help. Priority #1: Set up OUR BED!!!! I've tried to be as tolerant as possible with my lack of good, comfortable sleep for the last 7 weeks, especially in light of the poor people in ChCh and Japan. I'm sure they'd give their right arm for the beds we've been sleeping on. However, lack of good, restful sleep is very much taking it's toll on me and therefore those poor souls around me. Just ask Billy and the kids.... or maybe don't! LOL
Anyway, roughly 8 more nights til Billy and I can rest our weary bones on our most loved and terribly missed Sleep Number Bed! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Dogs are still doing okay. Pete has his moments which really confuses poor Charlie because one minute Pete is playing and the next he's growling and attacking. I'm sure they'll settle in together better over the coming weeks. The biggest concern is making sure they don't get out. Charlie had escaped several times from the yard where the fence meets the hedge in the corner. After tweaking it several times, I think it's escapeproof now. The issue now is keeping them from escaping through open doors, as kids are in and out all the time! On Pete's third full day here, the kids left the door ajar when they left for school. I didn't notice Pete was even gone til I saw the opened door. Then I panicked!!!!  It was the Monday after his Friday afternoon arrival and I hadn't gotten his permit yet. I was headed there that day once the kids were all off to school. Dog permits here are compulsory and there are heavy fines for dogs found running loose and even heavier if they are without there permit tag. Not to mention, no one would know to whom he belonged. And even worse, I could already hear Billy going off about the expense of getting him here only to have to pay more in fines, or worse, if he got hit by a car!!!! Anyway, I went yelling through the neighborhood "PETE!!!!" in my pajamas! I'm sure whichever neighbors I've not yet met are now quite reluctant to meet the crazy American yelling in the street in her pj's! Well, thankfully, Pete came running when I called. Last night he escaped again out the garage when Billy was leaving to collect Mikaylie from church. Billy didn't even know and when I noticed he was missing I had hoped perhaps Billy just took him with him. I frantically rang him several times but since use of cell phones while driving is illegal here, he didn't answer. Soooo, do I go screaming, again, through the neighborhood, when Pete may actually be safe with Billy? Plus, though it was evening, I was already again comfortable in my jammies!!! I quietly walked down the street but didn't call for him until Billy rang me back and said no he did not have him. GRRRRRR!!!!! PEEEEEEETE!!!!! And there he was! Running back from down the street, the opposite direction from where he had gone the last time. Hopefully, he's content with his sight seeing and will stay at home. We, meanwhile, will be checking and double checking all doors, gates and windows!
We learned about another NZ bonus yesterday. Routine dental health is FREE for school children to age 18!!! I had received in the post (mail- which, btw, anyone can put anything in anybody's box and it's not a federal offense!) an appointment card for Nani and Graham for an appointment I neither made nor had any idea about. I rang the school who said that all school kids receive free dental care and just come pick them up from their classrooms and run them over to the clinic. I asked if I needed to go to the office to "check them out" and they said no, just retrieve them from their rooms. Wow! So I just collected the kids and took them to the clinic. Graham, because of his heart condition, can't be treated until cleared and instructed by his physician. Nani received seals on her molars and I pay nada, zip, zilch! Orthodontics?... yea, not free. Oh well...
When we returned to their school, all the kids were at lunch/recess so they just hopped out the truck and went on. Didn't see a teacher. Didn't visit the office. So weird! But I like it. No need for concern here. No worries.
What else???? Oh... It's super windy here sometimes. Often, actually. During the night we'll wake thinking it's storming outside but there won't be a cloud in the sky! The stars will be just shining but the wind sounds like a hurricane! Today is quite windy. However, the sun is shining but then it'll rain too! It often rains here with the sun shining. Makes the rain not so bad. We have had some very rainy, cloudy, dark, nasty days and I've been told to be prepared because that is winter here. Lots and lots of rain. Well, at least it's not AS cold as we were used to. And the sea looks just as beautiful in the rain!