new journeys

many of you will be familiar with this type of picture; some of you won't.
this is a picture of our future, our child, 7 weeks old and the size of a bean (currently called harry, as in, haricot).
happy and lucky? totally elated, and equally scared...
and what a new beginning this is. is this the point when we say: that's it? hanging up the backpack?? folding up the map?? getting out the knitting needles!
well, maybe. but this is a completely different journey now, a journey into the real world of grown-up parenthood. oh, we've talked about it for a long time; but now it's there, now it's an actual moving, little soul, its heart beating...
so, steps along the path: pascal has applied for and been granted his visa for NZ- he has the rite to stay for 2 years and in between times apply for residancy;
we've bought the ticket home: one way ticket to chch. oh, i know it's not the first, and possibly not the last.
is it safe to talk about plans now? i mean, now we've actually got someone else who is making them for us!
i don't think that i'll be hanging up the backpack forever (got to use it to get home yet!); it's just going into storage- the journey that we're about to undertake needs a different type of backpack ;)

and yes, i will keep you posted
xxx
b&p &h