Sunday 23 June 2013

Moving house

Next weekend we're moving house, we're saying goodbye to our 2 bed flat near Crystal Palace and moving to the 'burbs further east to be closer to T's family. After writing about the disappointment of losing our first house choice,  over the last couple of weeks our new house has grown on me. It's a detached, 3 bed with a GARDEN (so happy about that last part) and we reckon it's well over double the size of our current place.

We viewed it again yesterday and took C-bear along to see it. Whilst I measured up for curtains and washing machines with J, T took C for a house tour and the little man was so excited, happy to see his new room and the garden in particular. He's really happy about the move and has yet to see the possible down sides (leaving his best friend and the nursery he loves) so can't wait for next weekend.

So this weekend has been a flurry of signing papers, paying deposits, packing up boxes and making two (yes two) Ikea trips (Lakeside didn't have the curtain rod part we wanted so we went to Croydon too). My Pinterest house moving inspiration boards have grown with a flurry of pin ides. Now it is quiet time, the boy is having a quick nap before I take him down to soft play to meet his best friend and T continues packing boxes.



Boards for our new home:
New home (general bits and pieces we'll need once we move)
Rooms with red carpet (the house is all red red red carpet and cream walls)
Train themed bedroom ideas (for C's new big boy room)
Mint bathroom (the new place has a terrible retro mint bathroom suite)
Garden things (I can't wait to get some containers growing)
Toddler garden fun (we'll have space for the paddling pool this summer)

Wednesday 12 June 2013

Q&A with a three year old

Spontaneous questions whilst sitting on the sofa with my boy, these are his word for word answers!

What's your favourite colour - Blue and Green
What's your favourite food - Meatballs
What's your favourite drink - Water, we have two taps in our house
What's your favourite TV programme - Dora
Who's your favourite character - Dora and Peppa
What's your favourite toy - Thomas's, I like all the Thomas's because I got those for my birthday
What's your favourite song - I like chocolate bar, twinkle twinkle chocolate bar
How old are you? I'm 3
Who's your best friend? Little Miss C and Little Miss I and Little Miss A
Who's your best friend who's a boy? Me and little master J and cousin M
What other question should I ask you? Ummm chocolate bar...

Tuesday 11 June 2013

House hunting blues

Last week the realities of life delivered another blow to our future family happiness. We'd found that rare thing, an almost perfect house and were due to move in at the end of the month. It was within budget and like a TARDIS inside, with a beautiful large living space, newly decorated rooms throughout and a garden. It was two mins from the station, five mins from our dream nursery and twenty mins from the in laws. We had paid the holding deposit and waited two weeks for our credit check to come through, I chased last week and the estate agent said yes we'd passed, so the house was ours. Except it wasn't. An hour later I had a message to call the agent back. My heart sank, I already knew something would be wrong, the wording he used wasn't "I've sorted out that second viewing you wanted so you can come and measure up", it was "call me". I was on a packed bus on my way back from a meeting at the British Museum with a colleague and wham, my heart was broken a little bit more. The landlord had rented our house to a family member who could move in immediately. Even though we'd paid the holding deposit and passed the credit check there was nothing we could do. Sometimes life really sucks.

So last weekend was a whirlwind of Internet searches and house viewings and (fingers crossed) we've found another. I'm not in love with it yet, my heart is still with the little red and white house that slipped away, but this new house has all the ingredients to make a lovely family home. I paid the deposit yesterday and we're waiting to hear back, so we'll see.

To keep me sane I've been creating a mass of Pinterest boards to find some inspiration.


Boards include:
New home (general bits and pieces we'll need once we move)
Rooms with red carpet (the house is all red red red carpet and cream walls)
Train themed bedroom ideas (for C's new big boy room)
Mint bathroom (the new place has a terrible retro mint bathroom suite)
Garden things (I can't wait to get some containers growing)
Toddler garden fun (we'll have space for the paddling pool this summer)
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