Well, here I am again, after a long absence from my blog.

It has been incredibly busy and posting on my blog, I have to admit, was the last thing I had in mind lately.  Happy events occured in 2010 and a post on here, writing about them, it was long overdue. So here it is:

2010 was a very busy but productive year that ended with the completion and submission of my second PhD thesis.  Phewwww, it was hard work but also very rewarding to see the end result of it!  And I must say, I am very proud that I managed to meet the deadline, having that things in my personal life were very hectic as well.

To give you a sense of what it was like, I was having labour contractions and, at the same time, making revisions on my thesis! Yes, that’s right, labour contractions!  2010 was also the year when we welcomed into this world our wee boy Ryan Christopher Yallop.  He was very anxious to meet us too and arrived two weeks earlier than his due date, on the 7th of October.  That messed up my plans of submitting the thesis by mid October so that had to be delayed.  However, after a period of adjustment to motherhood (man, it was hard!!! No one tells you how hard are the first two months) I finally managed to submit the thesis just before Christmas.  Hooraaaay!!

So here I am today, enjoying a lovely boy (oh, the joy he brings us everyday!) and awaiting the defence of my thesis…yeap, still waiting, who would have thought is going to take so long??

But in the meantime, this waiting allowed me to have a lovely time with my family.  My brother and his family visited us from Canada in March and we had a great three weeks holiday in the North and South Island.

Ok, I’d better go now and feed a screaming baby :))))) the joy……. :))))

Bye for now!