The Candid Kiwi blog

 Episode 9 Kia Ora Welcome to Episode 9.  In this episode I talk about all of my experiences in hospitals. Most of them are me, and some are my kids and husband. My first visit was when I was four years old and had broken my leg. My brother also split his head open. I talk about the story around this visit. Wasn't I cute? Here's my brother and I in happier times. Then I talk about my hospital visits around each of my births. Don't worry men, I don't go into gory details! Here I am pregnant with my first child. Here I am after having him. Pregnant with my second child. Here I am after giving birth to her. My son and daughter at the hospital. Here's my husband with our daughter. Here I'm pregnant with my second son. Here I am after giving birth to Takeshi. Here are all my children in the hospital after the birth of my son. Here I am pregnant with my last child. Here we are after the birth of our last daughter. Here's all four of my children in the hospital wit...

  Episode 8 Kia Ora These two mama’s started selling donuts out of the back of their car once a week in Hamilton NZ. Rain, hail or shine, you’d see them there, ready to hand off a freshly made donut to make your Friday’s that much better. People loved it so much they moved up to selling out of a caravan and to markets. Then they grew even more, so decided to get a store, then another and now they have six stores across the nation of NZ. They’re the founders of ‘Mama’s Donuts’ and are famous outside of NZ as well. Come and listen to their humble story of how they wanted to simply make a little money for food, to being able to give back to the community and teach their ethics and values to others in the community. I was really good mates with Becs husband, Ollie, at Waikato University. We trained to be teachers together. Rach's younger sister and I were in the same year of highschool. We both went to CCNZ. It was great to be able to catch up with them, after 20 years, and see how we...