...ok not Christmas, but a huge delivery of parcels nonetheless. Our worldly goods arrived, appropriately on St George's Day, a mere 3 months and 26 days after we last saw them!
The funny thing is, the things I thought I would be most desperate for, I haven't missed as much, and some of the things I was most looking forward to getting back were just odd.
What does it say about me when of all our possessions two of the ones I was most anticipating ripping the packaging off like a kid on Christmas morning were the hoover and the ironing board? (Actually it probably just says it's impossible to iron a shirt on a $10 floor-level IKEA ironing board. And it turns out there is a limit to how long I can go without hoovering after all. Who'd have thought?)
The arrival of 126 boxes / packages in one morning can be pretty overwhelming, particularly when you have guests arriving 5 days later (Toni's Mum, Malc and Toni's Gran)! Incredibly though we managed to open all the boxes, check for breakages (nothing significant luckily), unpack and get the house looking tidy before they arrived.
We had the Anzac Day bank holiday to help us though, which fell on a Wednesday (25th April). If you ever wanted to destroy workplace productivity for a whole week, arranging a bank holiday for a Wednesday is a surefire winner. Think about it: on Monday everyone's still getting going/moaning about it being Monday, on Tuesday everyone's talking about plans for the bank holiday and winding down, Thursday: talking about the bank holiday and saying things like "doesn't this week feel short? Or is it long? Come to think of it, it's like 2 weeks. I'm knackered!" and then it's Friday.
Plenty of other news too:
We bought a house!
AND
MADDIE IS 1 !!
More on both to follow, and obviously, photos of Maddie's big day.
Bye for now
Dom
Spiders: 1
Snakes: still none
2 comments:
Happy Birthday Maddie!
Love
Corrina+Dave
Hi cousin, Toni and most importantly Maddie.
Your mum gave us your blog address so we could see how you guys are doing. Great to hear that things are going so well and the pictures of Maddie are great!
It feels like only yesterday that our two were Maddie's age but Luca is now five and Cassia two and a half...I suddenly feel old but remember what a great age one is!
Anyway its great to see how well you have settled in. Keep up the blog as we want to see and hear more!
Best wishes, Richard, Katherine, Luca and Cassia
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