Beet Goes On…

Our new home

CJ enjoying cooking in a spacious kitchen with every mod con

TJ relaxing with a game of pool on the table our landlord generously left here

Oh, and our new, reliable wheels thanks to my bestie who sold us her old car and is letting us pay it off

Now excuse me while I go soak my feet in the pool.

We have a house!

A four bedroom house with AIR CON!!

And built in’s in the main bedroom!!

And two huge storage cupboards in the hallway!

And two living type area’s!!

And room up the back for a good sized vege garden!!

And grape vines!!

And a second toilet!

And a sandpit!

And a basketball hoop on the shed!

And it’s only ten minutes walk from my mum’s, PSLS’s sister’s,  the school, the piano teacher’s house, the gym, the skate park, a sporting ground and a corner store.

And the living room is purple!!

Purple!!

I can hear Widdle Shamrock swooning in envy from here!

And we can move in straight after Easter!

Some of the things I particularly like besides it’s close proximity to many things places we frequent are the shower stall not having a recess or being over a bathtub, the ramp down to the backyard, floorboards instead of carpet in the living areas and the wall oven. All these things will make life much easier for me on painful days.

There are a few things I shall miss about the house we are in now. It has represented freedom to me since the day we moved in. Freedom from being stuck in our financial situation, our past, our circumstances…….. so it’s a little special to me. Not that we are giving up that freedom, we are simply moving forward from that first step that this house represented.

And I’ll miss our HUGE verandah that we’ve had so many bbq’s and hosted family gatherings under. And I’ll miss the kookaburra’s on the power lines out the front, seeing rabbits on the road driving home late at night, watching the occasional horse gallop up the street after having bolted from it’s owner and the quiet and serenity of being near the edge of town and out of the way.

I won’t miss the creepy crawlies constantly getting into the house because it’s full of gaps, the thunderous noise that  heavy rainfall makes on our roof with no ceiling,  the little bastard yap yap dog next door that barks at me every time I use my en suite, kitchen or go outside during the day while it’s owners are at work or how cold this place gets in the dead of winter (again the gap thing). BRRRRR!

And I’m very much looking forward to starting our next chapter. We’ve had a lot of changes so far this year with bringing Miss Lou home,  both the girls starting at the high school, TJ needing to start speech therapy again and hubby’s work not having it’s usual slow period so this is just one more. I’m looking at this like another fresh start after a rough couple of months. Something to get everyone focused on working together then building our new routine in our new home.

But first…………. I’d better get packing!