Busy busy busy little bees we have been lately. The move went well, the unpacking not so well (I am still going!), and the kids have settled in perfectly as if they were meant to be here.
We have checked out the shopping haunts, planning shopping trips and some kind of schedule for the groceries is coming (as is finding all the room for the stuff I need to buy!). Right now we have a local woolies to utilise 20 minutes away, but it is only a small one compared to what we are used to, there is a pool and small cinema, and other shops as necessary to keep the community running. It is not too bad and enough for us to survive without going too far. All else is a 2hour drive away, so I am planning to only 'need' to go there every 4-6weeks.
Our big job is gardening. The main garden was overgrown and nice but not what we want in the yard, so the job of demolishing a garden someone has spent years growing is underway with some scrutiny from the locals. So we have currently taken approximately 20 trailer loads to the dump. You can just imagine how much work has gone into filling those trailer loads! The kids are loving spending the time outside. If the TV is off, the are out by their own choosing (it helps that the toys are set up under the house!)
Cleaning is a breeze in such a small house! The old house took about 2hours to do all the floors, this one is done in less than half an hour - I wont be requesting to move back to a big house anytime too soon! It is also helping to declutter, as there is no room for all that clutter anymore. I have sent quiet a few boxes to the dump just full of junk, and there are a few more for vinnies. All that stuff you keep and say just in case, I wont be doing that too much anymore.
Pictures are coming, when I find the battery charger for the camera. It is somewhere downstairs in a box I have declared not important and will get to when I feel like it!

Nearly there!

Just over one week to go until the big move, it sure has come around quickly. Luckily I have this weekend and the next to get my stuff sorted. The yard is looking good, with the dogs track almost gone. I will have to try borrow Mums' gerni and clean the outside of the house soon.
After, embarrassingly, trying to pick up Little Miss 2's bed yesterday (the 98 kg package did not fit on our trailer and had to be put back in the warehouse!), we now have to wait for it to be delivered today. So a good excuse to go nowhere today!
I got to sleep in until 7 today, I am stoked cause during the week the days I worked were the days this happened and the one day I didn't work, Little Miss 2 was awake and up at 615. Not to mention the midnight cry for our someone special, hopefully the move and being reunited with her Daddy will eliminate this horrid night time routine!
With everything which has happened this week, Master 4 has been discussing dying. Not the kind of topic I ever thought I would discuss with such young children (let alone my own children), so we have had a few heartfelt conversations about not dying until you are really old, then we had to discuss what is really old and lets hope we don't have to go there again too soon.
Enjoy your weekend.