Kia Ora! We are Sarah and Dan from the UK. Our children, Charli, Sophie and Alice were all born in New Zealand.
Sarah runs things on the home-front, whilst Dan is very busy with his business, YouDo, which was set up in April 2007. Prior to becoming a full-time Mum, Sarah enjoyed working for WWF-New Zealand and has a background in marketing and events.
Sarah and Dan met at Southampton University way back in 1992, where Sarah completed a BA (Hons) in Geography and Dan a Masters of Engineering in Aero Space Systems Engineering. A career opportunity brought Dan to New Zealand in 1996 for a couple of years. After a year back in the UK in 1998/99 a new opportunity brought us back to NZ and we’ve been here ever since.
In our pre-children days we explored a lot of the North and South Island of New Zealand, doing many of the ‘Great Walks‘.
These days our lives revolve more around the local parks, playgrounds and beaches, but are just as busy and full of life! We set this blog up when the children were born, so that friends and family far away could keep tabs on us. Since then we’ve made many friends via ‘cyberspace’.
New Zealand has captured a strong piece of our hearts and our children are so happy here. Friends and family overseas are always close in our hearts too and we are so thankful to live in the age of the Internet so we can keep in touch so easily!
Thanks for stopping by and we love to receive comments.
Haere rā 
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Hi
I’ve just come across your wonderful blog – congrats on the birth of your third child, she looks gorgeous!
We moved to NZ in July 09 (currently living in Gore, Southland), I started blogging for friends and family to catch up on what we were up to, funny how these blogs become addictive and I’ve kept it going… (http://living-in-nz.blogspot.com/)
Feel free to take a look at it, and maybe we can post each others blog links?
Best Wishes
Eirlys
(ps couldn’t find an email address to send this so had to post as a comment!)
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Sarah Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Thanks for stopping by and I’ll look forward to visiting your blog and following your Sourh Island adventures. Sarah
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Hi Sarah! Nice to ‘meet’ you
) Thanks for visiting my new blog and for the lovely message you left! Your blog looks great – I look forward to reading more! Your girls look adorable!
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Hello!
It’s the first time I’m visiting yoru blog and I love it. I too have 3 girls and am currently a stay at home mom. Wishing you well!
Claudia
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Id love to meet you and your family in person one day
you are all special
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Thank you for all the high quality content you have contributed to the global online community. We look forward to continuing to follow your experiences abroad in New Zealand. If you have questions about GO! Overseas please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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hello Sarah,
I’m Zoie and I am in Canada at the moment. Our family of 4 (2 boys and dh) will be moving to Wellington in December and we want to ask you some questions about preschools, buying a home and so many other things! Being an attachment parenting mom too, I am so happy to know there is someone like you practicing the same style of parenting in NZ! Would you be able to contact me? I would love to meet up one day soon! And congratulations on the success of your blog! It rocks!
Z
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hi sarah! just saw your comment on my blog about the cookies! email me on ginadowning@gmail.com and i will find out the recipe for you!
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Hi Sarah
Just checked out your blog after getting your comments on mine. Your pics of Wellington’s south coast made me very nostalgic! I am a Kiwi living in your home and you are a Brit living in mine!
Love the baking pics… will go and vote now!
Tara
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