When people find out that I’m from New Zealand, I generally get asked a few questions about the country and culture, and I love that. I’m immensely...

I’ve been a US resident for just over a year now. My experience has been mostly fantastic. I have been told to go back to “wherever I came...

I have been terribly slack at updating around here, but the good news is that we arrived in the US without too much hassle (just a long wait at...

We’ve booked the tickets and fly out on August 10th, landing at LAX 2 hours and 10 minutes before we left our home town of Invercargill. I honestly don’t...

I’ve been very sick the last couple of weeks. Between that, the issues with the house and the fact we officially hit the 18 month mark since J and...

We’re working our way through the house slower than I’d like, but it’s difficult when I’m mostly doing it on my own. The kids arenâ€...

We’ve been approved at long last and are now just one flight away from being Legal Permanent Residents of the USA!

Our passports and the Mysterious...

So yesterday was particularly shitty. Not long after I posted the last entry, I discovered that my next door neighbour had passed away. He was a lovely man, and...

With just 2 days left to the 5 week mark after our interview, the medical still hasn’t been forwarded to the Consulate.

It turns out they were waiting...

2 weeks has come and gone since our interview, so I called the Consulate who are apparently still waiting for our medicals.

So I called the doctor’s...