A new place to call home

After literally months of searching, yesterday we signed a leaseon a new place to call home. We've spent the last few months eagerly watching the new rental listings on domain.com.au and realestate.com.au hoping a suitable house would come up. We've visited more than a dozen open houses, been horrified by many, been amazed by a few and confused by others and even got the point of sending in an application or two, all with no luck. We've already moved once into a short term lease rental in Hornsby, that has given us additional time to look, but has never really felt like anything more than temoporary accomodation. We didn't quite end up where we'd hoped to end up, but we've found a nice house for us to live in. It's not very beautiful to look at, but it has 5 bedrooms, a couple of living areas, decent kitchen and bathrooms and a huge backyard with a pool for our growing boys to play in and it is also a decent and reasonable price (which we couldn't say about a lot of other places).

It has been a very uncertain time and Mitch particularly has been quite noticeably unsettled by it all. He's normally such a relaxed, confident boy and that hasn't been the case these last few months. It has been difficult to watch and we can only hope this house and a more settled home will help rebuild his confidence.

We move in around the 26th March and once we're settled we hope life can get back to a more "normal" state.