You may remember I mentioned that we moved house on the 23rd of December. Couldn't get any crazier. We were so flat out in the couple of weeks leading up to it and then during the middle of the moving madness, surrounded by boxes with days worth of unpacking and settling in stretching before us, we emerged momentarily from the exhausted fog we'd been living in for days to Christmas day! In our new house!
There aren't too many photos actually. It was such an effort to simply pick up my camera - seriously every single muscle in my body ached with the soreness one can only experience with moving house while 8 months pregnant.
Dexter was the first up (after only 5 or so hours sleep crazy kid) and we tried to keep him in our room for just a wee bit longer to allow Hugo more sleep after incredibly late nights for us all. That lasted oh, about 10 minutes!
So out to the lounge we wandered bleary eyed. Hugo was so focused on emptying his stocking that he failed to notice his new bike by the tree for several minutes...until this moment:
The weather was awful; cold and rainy. But actually no-one cared. Apart from Hugo not being able to ride his new bike or scooter (from Nanny and Pa) or for Dexter to be able to take his new massive remote controlled car (from Granny Kim and Papa Ward) for a spin - they were quite content to stay home for most of the day and discover their other new things. Hugo settled down to his new book of mazes for a while at the table. He also got excited about his rainbow maker and spent quite some time in his bedroom with the door closed making rainbows on the wall.
Dexter wasted no time getting started on building and programming his Lego robot, Mindstorm. He was so engrossed in it that he didn't want to stop when it came time to leave for our Christmas day dinner in Rose Bay. He managed to build about half of it this day and then finished it on Boxing day. Go Dexter!
We enjoyed discovering where/how my mum had unpacked all our kitchen goods two days before when Will made pancakes for breakfast and a delicious lunch of corn chips with beans and melted cheese.
These photos truly don't show the incredibly chaotic state that we were living in at this time. The hallway was lined full of boxes, 2 bedrooms were so full of unpacked boxes and furniture in various states of assembly that you literally couldn't get through the door. However, our beds were fully assembled and clothes pretty much unpacked into the wardrobes and as you can see the living area was very much good to go. Thanks so much to my folks for their incredible hard work helping with the unpacking on moving day!
Ah, what a wonderful catch up that was, Lou!! How lovely your new place looks, how gorgeous all your adventures have been (including the adventure to Lorne you didn't go on!), and how beautiful you look as a mama-to-be-of-three! Thanks for still being here, for still posting when you can and feel like it (it's important, I think, to feel being here, don't you think? Because then the sharing feels like Flow and the time spent on it feels joyful and rich…just something I've discovered after a long time away myself!)
ReplyDeleteI think of you every time I'm up in your neck of the woods…and I'm there a lot seeing as my mum lives around the corner! I often wonder if I'll just bump into you guys one day :) I hope you are settling into your new space beautifully, and that the coming months are just bliss for you all.
yes indeed what a beautiful new space you have, so perfect to welcome your new little one. such gorgeous adventures with your beautiful little people, they are growing up so quick and so wonderfully (as are you, you look amazing). love and warm wishes to you and your family
ReplyDeletedear Lou, just a quick note to say that I am thinking of you and hope that all went well with bubba number three. with warmth and best wishes jay
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