Whoa what a big week my hubby flew in for good last Monday and since then we have been planning and packing our lil house to move to a rental property! On top of all that I am writing two papers for Uni and going on missions to collect a fish tank we bought on eBay. Deep breathing now and I am so thankful for the gym to help me manage the stress of moving and life and we are finally getting plans for the next 12 months done and dusted. Our house will be partly demolished and we started the process when we moved the monolith black fridge out the back door by chiseling out the door frame and taking off the back door – lucky for us we had some very innovative movers!
So over the weekend we packed everything away into boxes and transported our stuff Monday into a 10 tonne truck to our new house just down the road. On Sunday I had to do a mission in the arvo to collect a fish tank with its filter, light and pebbles to save our goldfish from the pond in the front yard as we are remodelling the kids did not think they would survive! When I got back the kids were pretty excited that we got a tank and we have now set it up in our kitchen, they now spend time watching the fish swim around – I had no idea the fish were so big! I said to them to watch some YouTube videos on taking care of goldfish because I don’t need the job of cleaning a fish tank too. I have been driving about in cars from Car Next Door and its been a great thing to do as you get to test drive cars and so far my fave has been a Toyota Prius Hybrid, hopefully in the future we will buy a hybrid. When we moved on Monday, I borrowed a car from our a neighbour who has a Subaru Forrester and it was so good to drive a Soobie again 😀 the bonus was when I went to pick up the car the owner had chickens in his front yard, so cool! And as of this weekend we get to look after the chickens and a pig called Gigi at my sons high school – so fun!
So I was on a mission to unpack and get things out of boxes into their places as having a messy space is not good for my mind. So here is the lounge with what we have managed to gather together to make it homely. We cannot hang our art on the walls as it is a rental property – boo! So I have used a tea towel my sister got me for my birthday and our IKEA cubby for our bags and I found the great granny square blanket at The Salvos, score! Next week our stuff from California will finally be delivered and thank goodness this is a 3 bedroom house with a garage so we can store everything here until our move again next year into our newly remodelled house. Though it looks like we will still have to get rid of more bits and bobs but until then I had better get back to my study…
It is just so nice to have a brain break and goals to work towards such as writing my blog or going out to buy another pot plant – oh yeah that is my latest collection (as I am decorating with plants rather than art prints). I am collecting pot plants for our new home, I have a goal to grow them here and have them ready to put into our new house next year and so far I have a rubber plant, a fiddle leaf fig, a few foxtail agaves (rescued from our backyard), some succulents and a monstera all inspired by Summer Rayne Oakes and her rescue chicken! Oh and she has the best tutorial for a vertical wall garden which I would love to do at our new house, which is made from guttering and a very cool watering system.
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