Wahoo! Holidays. First stop home to Tauranga Moana. Awesome to catch up with the whanau. We went up to the urupa and the cuzzies had a bit of a waiata. We all had a big tangi cause now that we are adults we have realised that the whanau that are passing away are no longer just tupapaku that come onto the marae and it is someone elses pain, it is our pain now. Our cuzzies, our aunties, our uncles, our pepi and tamariki.
We have a kaupapa now that when we go home after being away for a while we meet at the urupa and have our own little service. We get our rangatahi to come up and they take the karakia, bring their guitars, and sing our waiata. My babies know that we stop at the urupa and that the others are not far away.
Its really quite a beautiful thing and I am truly blessed.
After that we went to Rotorua and stayed in the motels. The ngawha (spas) were awesome. So of course we rang da cuzzies to come on over and bring their biki nis. Sure enough they came and we had the best party ever. They brought their guitars and their waiata and away we went. One lady had a bit of a moo at us and the cuzzies just laughed and said ring the noise control to take away their big singing voices. I just told them that if they sayed past a certain time they had to pay. They went home. LOL
After that Rangitukia here I come. We went to Hinepare and caught up with the whanau having a wananga. Bit a karioke at the local rugby club and kapa haka in the kitchen at Hinepare. We had heaps of korero about the recession.
My take on the recession is that I reckon my Mother in Law has got it sussed. The basics is all you need. She is on the farm growing kai and she never wastes a thing. I reckon the rest of us will be buggered if this recession gets worse and I m off to the farm with my kids to be a farmer if they will have me. Ill need a bit of training though.
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