Over the last few
weeks Hubby & I have been house sitting for his folks, who have been on
holidays over-seas for a month. Their place is only about 15/20 mins from ours so
it wasn't a big move, although our suburbs are almost world’s apart :-)
Their home backs
onto a national park and they live in a quiet circular street, so as you could
imagine the peace and quiet is something we don't get much of, living on a main
street with unit buildings all around.
Just look at the beautiful views.
Just look at the beautiful views.
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| Foggy Mornings |
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| Beautiful sunsets |
I was wondering if it would be "too hard" with
a toddler, to feel at home... you know they need so much 'Stuff' and I'm a
hopeless packer.. lol ... Ryan had suggested we try it out and see how it goes,
if I am not happy we can just go home again.. Smart move.
But I'm happy to
say that it has been really nice, we did bring quite a bit of stuff, although I
kinda brought it over gradually, as I would need something else we could pop
home and pick it up.. No issues... which made me feel more comfortable to know
if I needed it, I could get it.. Suffice to say after the first week,
I went back less & less and was able to adapt happily with what I had.
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| Lunch in the sunshine |
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| Enjoying the sun |
Carter has been
very happy here, there is already enough toys and books to play with, as Nanny has
all that for the many visits from Grandchildren ... so I didn't need to bring
any toys. We figured it would be good to play with different things and then
his toys and books would be exciting again when we eventually went home.
Oh the Stairs.. He
just love Stairs and at first wanted to go up and down ALL the time.. It got a
bit tiring following him to make sure he was ok.. So we decided to keep that to
a minimum and kept the doors to the stairs closed.
I must admit I
always thought I wanted to live in a town house with 2 storey’s and have the
extra space upstairs.. BUT being Pregnant I now think.. WHY .. hahaha.. its so
much work and makes me tired. If i had to carry him up to bed I have to catch my
breath before I can sing him a night time song lol....
The nature &
wildlife around here has been lovely too, we were able to take walks up the
street and spot the wild bunny rabbits and loads of different birdies.. I've
loved watching Carter stop and put his hand to his ear when he hears the birds
chirping or the doggies barking.. its very cute.
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| A little visitor |
Its lovely having a
garden to walk around in and not have to even get out of my PJ's if I didn't
want to ... heheh.. Yes that happened many times.. At home its a process of us
getting dressed, getting the pram out of the garage and heading off to the park
for some simple sit in the grass enjoyment... so this has been nice... Also
they have a large balcony which gets LOTS OF SUNSHINE.. so we would sit out
there and have lunch on many occasions or just look out at the pool and the
bush lands... I'm deff catching up on my lack of Vitamin D here.. THANK
YOU!
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| Looking at the Ants, listening to the birds and Gnome hunting. |
So needless to say
we have stayed practically the WHOLE time they have been away, which has been a
nice break from our flat. Now the whole move back home is a little hard
to think about.. well I mean, I am looking forward to going ‘home’ and having
all my own stuff, being closer to the things I am used to and for appointments
etc... but I can say I will miss having all this space and especially the peace and quiet.. (oh and the heater & dishwasher were a nice luxury)
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| He was a good little helper |
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| a favourite game, falling into the case |
Thank you, its been Fun :-)
xx
Just the view is relaxing! I'm so glad you had a nice time and it looks like Carter LOVED it.
ReplyDeleteGlad you and carter enjoyed your time there xx
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