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A new house for us!


We have a new house!!

We've been looking for a new place to call home for a good six months now.  Buy, rent, buy, rent.  We even put an offer in on a place that we could see a lot of potential in.  Unfortunately it didn't work out.  Cue sobbing, wailing, thrashing about in general.  Just kidding, Nick handled it really well!!

But after lots of flipping and flopping we finally have moved into our new home.  Amazingly it is the place that we put an offer in on but it is only ours as a rental.  Such a great chance to find out if it really is a good home for a family like ours.


The move itself was WAY harder than any house move we've ever had before.  Long gone are the days when Nick and I would chuck our couch and dining table into a trailer and throw a few blue and red striped bags filled with clothing into the back of our ancient mazda hatchback.  This was serious moving - two adults, two kids, two businesses, oh and a cat.  


But even with the moving shenanigans it has all been well and truly worthwhile.  Our new home has a swing, slide AND a cubby house.  Do you think these kids could be any happier??

After school each day the two little terrors have the wildest time stomping around their new playground - Eve making cups of tea and cakes in the cubby house which she calls her "cafe" and Ol on the top of the swings (which he calls his "tree house") with his helmet, goggles, toy phone and at least four animal books - apparently he is playing animal rangers.  They ride their scooters and bikes, they jump on the trampoline, they fight and squabble.  It is just perfection.  Possibly my favourite bit was on the first afternoon when Ol swung for ages with his eyes shut saying "it's the first time in my life that I've ever really relaxed".  A little dramatic perhaps but it certainly made all the stress of the move melt away.


A few weeks on and the boxes are nearly almost unpacked, a few of our planned DIY jobs have been done and we've had a couple of friends over to hang out.  We certainly are a happy and contented little bunch.


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