Home

Today has been slow... scratch that.... today has been relaxed! I've dusted, vacuumed and washed the floors, later after rests - because boy do we ever need a rest today due to so many late nights - I'll clean the bathroom. The rugs from my boys rooms are downstairs waiting for their turn to go through the wash after the couch covers. Our home is virtually all clean and tidy awaiting our weekend to start with Dadda. This morning we're all a little bit ratty so I've canceled art with the school this afternoon in favour of a completely restful day at home. Which by the way, I'd like to introduce you to!

She is a beautiful home and I'm so grateful that our family has landed here for a while.

We don't have a lot else planned today.

They've both completed their ten minutes of music today thanks to the Music Ace program and Kookaburra has spent some of his morning discovering the delights of Matilda by Roald Dahl. I'm so proud of him. Reading has been a enormous struggle and yet now he breezes through four chapters in one sitting. He's just finished George's Marvelous Medicine also by Roald Dahl and thought it was devilishly funny. I know my boy. He's a cackle head who loves to laugh at nonsense and the ridiculous so I thought these books would strike a chord with him. I've also sought out copies of most of Mr Dahls' books and they're waiting on his bookshelf for each of their turns to be read.

Well it's time for me to make lunch for our little lads and get a cup of coffee.... and toothpicks to hold my eyes open whilst I read to them ;) then we'll nap together and play our afternoon away. Sure is a hard life ;)!

What Could It Be?

It's been a while since I've gotten around to posting but here we finally are. Moved and settled into our new home. It's lovely and bright with lots of windows and a massive backyard in a quiet street not far from town so we can maintain our busy lives.


For the most part everything that is necessary (and more) has been unpacked and we even have a few photos up on the walls. What I really wanted though is to make better use of this great kitchen bench space we have now. I had originally wanted to title this post 'What's in the box?' but my boys were so quick to rip open the packaging that that title quickly become impossible as the box was gone and they had moved straight onto assembly. Can you guess what they are?



My happy handy men.



A little supervision from Merlin.


One done, one to go.


Yep. Bar stools! My boys can hang out in the kitchen and do their lesson work or bake or just eat their meals at the bench whilst I double duty getting other things done whilst being in the same room as them. Previous to this my boys were doing this sort of thing at the table in the dining room in the next room. A new home. A few changes. We're really enjoying right now.

Movin' On Up and Out

Our time in Little House is nearing to a close. There have been a few issues since living here - the biggest being the mold we can smell in our kitchen in the food prep area - that we've given the owner a good deal of time to resolve but the outcome has been that they aren't going to fix it. So, valuing our health, we've made the tough decision to move on. It's difficult to do as we really love our little yellow house in it's pretty and overgrown garden. Little House has been our hideaway for the past year where we've been able to heal from our pretty dramatic existence in our last home and we've discovered that we actually like living in town and maybe building and living out of town, be it just ten minutes, may not be for us. We're working through our options but if our five acres was to have a reasonable offer on it tomorrow I think we would be happy to be free of it and hunt for a suitable home in town.

With our impending move we've also decided that it's an end of an era for our old upright piano that we bought three years ago from our Hospital Museum. We have upgraded to a digital piano which is actually in pitch! It's made a world of difference to my playing already too, which I'm so thankful for because I have my Grade Two exams in September. Our boys are having a ball with it also. Kangaroo likes to play the concert demo and pretend he's playing it.

Hooray and Yay! Welcome :D

We praise him and encourage him to accept the accolades. He meanwhile grins and continues to lightly bounce his fingers over the keys.


For Mr E the new keyboards absolute stand out best feature is that it only weighs about seventy five kilo's and can be easily moved by the two of us and it won't need retuning at the other end. Our lovely upright on the other hand cost us three hundred dollars each time we had it moved and then needed to be professionally tuned as well. It wasn't a good enough piano to deserve that sort of money spent on it.

Goodbye :(

The upright has gone to another family just like us. They have very little musical experience and they want something to try and see if the children (or maybe their Mumma? :) would like to play before investing in a serious instrument.

So this is it. We're clearing out the things we don't need once again. The house is full of boxes, packed and ready to go. Little House is beginning to have the empty echo that comes with pictures being removed from the walls and books packed away out of our book shelves. Soon there will nothing at all left to soak up the sound. The house will stand bare awaiting it's final clean and a last goodbye.



But it's not all sad. Not by a long shot. Our new home has a lovely bright airy feel with a massive backyard for our boys to play in and a garden in the front to plant some flowers come spring. And the kitchen is definitely mold free!