New Home

Over the weekend we moved into our "new home". It is a great relief that we will finally be a bit more settled after moving 3 times in the last 9 months. We hope to be there for a long time.

There is still a fair bit of unpacking to do and we still have to move a few things from our old temporary place, but we are already settling in and the boys are getting used to their new rooms. There is also a playroom for the kids which we bought a separate TV/DVD unit for on the weekend so they can watch their shows and not have to sit in the grown-ups lounge room. The house has a huge backyard and a pool which is great except the previous owners had the creepy crawly thing in the pool turn on at 2:30am and everyonce in a while when it climbs up a wall it gets to the surface and makes a hideous slurping sound. The first time it happened it freaked us out. At 2:30 in the morning you don't want huge slurping noises outside your bedroom window!

We have also bought a second car. Unfortunately the new place is not within walking distance from a train station so I drive to the station each morning. We had been borrowing my brother Rob's car while he's been in the UK, but he is coming home for a holiday soon and a friend was selling her car for a good price, so the timing was good. So now we have a white 2000 Subaru Impreza RX AWD to add to the Territory. It is not an expensive or fancy car, but it's fun to drive and can take three car seats at a pinch. Given I only drive it about 10km a day, it doesn't need to be fancy or new!