Augusts' Account

August, August, August. Oh dear August really is a month I would much prefer to forget. The whole month was consumed with ONE thing and ONE thing ONLY, moving house.

Moving house was something that we absolutely DID NOT WANT to do again until we are ready to purchase a home on my return to employment (something I plan to do next year). Some people may remember the last time we moved. We signed a lease on a house that only Jason had viewed, BIG MISTAKE. With no disrespect to my husband whatsoever, men just aren’t good at choosing homes, I learned this the hard way and I actually cried real tears when we moved in. However we did a lot of work on that house. We painted every single room, even the garage. We ripped all the vines and overgrowth off the deck and pulled down trees in the back yard allowing room for the kids to play. We turned it from a rather unpleasant house into a home and I really grew to love that place.

However the house had one other MAJOR downfall. It was sandwiched between a commission house on one side and a Silky Oaks charity house on the other. Basically this translated to us having unemployed, drug taking benefit bludgers as neighbours, ON BOTH SIDES. The situation became unbearable and we decided for our sanity we just had to move.

August was stressful. We had a move out date of September 8 and without fail we had to have somewhere to move to by then, no ifs, no buts’, no maybe’s. We were really struggling to find somewhere. We had so many hurdles this time round. Of course our main priority was that it needed to be close to Jason’s work but we also had to consider that Jacob would start school in a couple of months and being a one car family this meant we needed to be within walking distance to a school. Other considerations were visiting Jason’s Dad in the nursing home, public transport would be an advantage and the house just had to have a fully fenced yard. This was making things difficult.

Jason & Jacob in the Removal Truck

Of course we eventually found somewhere and although I didn’t love the house, the location was perfect. We are an 8 minute drive to Jason’s work, a 5 minute walk to the local school, a 30 second walk from the train station and have a HUGE fully fenced yard. And so the moving mayhem began.

Jacob Helping with the Move

I say mayhem but I have to be honest and say it actually went pretty smoothly apart from some cosmetic damage to our fridge. I don’t like to blow my own trumpet but my organisational ability comes in handy when it comes to situations like moving house and it really helps to take some of the stress out of the occasion. My kid’s ALMOST impeccable behaviour also added to the reduced stress levels. Yes we moved house with kids in tow, no shipping them off to anyone to get them out the way, they were there every step of the way and Jacob tried to help out where he could.

After getting settled in to our new home it was time to return to the old place to clean it ready to hand the keys back. I don’t mind sharing with people that I actually cried a little when I walked out for the last time. I took a moment to look around each room and think of some of my memories, there was so many good ones, and say goodbye. Soppy I know but hey that’s me. I am really going to miss that place but most of all I think I am really going to miss low level living.

Our HUGE Backyard

So here we are living at the new place, we have been here a little over a month now and I’m not going to lie, it doesn’t feel like home – YET. Homes need memories and that’s something we haven’t had time to create here yet but we will, probably starting today with our NRL Grand Final drinks. We don’t have anyone coming around, just us but I’m sure it will be fun and memories will be made. The kids love the new place, the large fenced yard has given them a sense of freedom that they just didn’t have at the old place.

Morning Tea with Friends

August was pretty much consumed with moving house, what with searching for somewhere, packing up and unpacking, cleaning the new place, cleaning the old place. We did find time however to fit in a morning tea with friends, which was fun as always and we baked cakes for Cousin Laurens Birthday which were yummy.

Jacob Eating Lauren's Birthday Cup Cakes

Jacob

Jacob finally has been enrolled into prep for next year. We couldn’t enrol him earlier as we were unsure which school he would be going to as we were moving. He will be attending the brand spanking new Wynnum State School. A few smaller schools in the area are closing at the end of the year and are all going to join together to form Wynnum State School. Very exciting to think Jacob will be attending prep there in its very first year. The facilities also seem pretty impressive and we are looking forward to viewing them on his orientation day in October.

Jacob is obsessed with counting and numbers at the moment and he seems to have a good grasp of counting and adding for a 4 year old.

Bella Eating Lauren's Birthday Cup Cakes

Bella

Bella has adjusted really well to living in the new house considering she is still so young. We now are looking for a Kindy in the area that she can start going to for one day a week in January when Jacob starts school. Her talking has been a little slow at developing as was Jacob’s but she seems to be learning lots of new words daily at the moment and has even started putting some together to form mini sentences.