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)