Welcome Home!

It has taken so long! so long but finally it happened - as Kyle picked me up and carried me over the threshold of our new home, it all became so very real and it smelt like manfume and new house (ok the manfume was Kyle).

A new house only has its new house smell for a very limited time, before you know it your old couch brings its personality to the air, a fresh cup of coffee is brewed, hair spray and perfume wafts about the place and suddenly, it smells like home, and not like a new house any more.  

I stood in my new lounge room and I took a deep breath, in through the nose, out through the mouth, and repeat.  I wanted to keep that new house smell in for as long as I could, lets face it, its going to be a while before that happens again.  This house only just had its finishing touches put on it a few months ago, its not been lived in before!  No one else has burnt their dinner in that house, no one else has left a half eaten potato cake on the bench after a late night out, never before had the air in there been decorated with fresh linen or dirty socks!

We still have not settled in properly, at the moment it feels like we are staying in a really nice hotel, and living out of suitcases, but finally we are no longer at the mercy of a land lord and their endless inspections, open homes and surprise pop ins.

There is no white carpet to fear red wine spillage, polished concrete is the most convenient floor I have found so far.  There are many many spaces to hang pictures up on the wall, and there is a garden that we can finally love because we know we wont have to hand it back in a year.  

But best of all, we moved house and did not kill each other.  We tied down tarp to a trailer in the middle of Hobart August winds and rain, we worked till late and we worked hungry, we negotiated parents being "helpful" and neighbors being nosy and moved house in 48hrs!

Im sure there will be some sort of house warming soon, but this weekend is unpacking and putting everything away.  After a week of take away I'm dying to just cook some real food (gas cook top), pop on some slippers and just enjoy the new home!

Pic is view from the bed, don't think i will get sick of it for a while!