CHANGES.... THEY ARE A'COMIN

I had an idea in my head to do a big change around in our house a few months ago.

Then we had the flood.
Then we had a change of mind.

And now... back to the beginning we go.

Stew and I are moving...
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into THE GARAGE!  

This will give Steve and Bex our room... where they will have more room for them and their baby.

They had thought about moving to Hamilton sometime in the next few months... but that plan has changed.
So, they are here for the mid to long term.  And I don't want them crammed into that one small room for much longer.

Stew and I only sleep in our bedroom, so we shall inhabit the garage very happily.  
I am sure with my touch it can be made into a perfectly lovely 'room' for us.

So that will be me today.  Organising how to effect that move in the easiest way.  I can do quite a bit myself over the next few days, and the guys can move the bigger stuff on Sunday.

That should keep me busy for a while.  I also plan on trying to catch up with some blog reading too... probably this afternoon.  By then my left foot will no doubt be killing me and I'll need to park me bum for a while anyway...

No photo for today.... YET.

ONWARD...

KAREN:  ah nope, we can't move into the room Steve and Bex are in right now as it's simply not big enough for our bed AND two sets of drawers.  Never mind all the other stuff I have in me room!  lol

YES, it will be cool in our garage... but think about it.
  
Electric Blanket.
Hot Flushes.
My HOT hubby.

Do you really think I'm gunna be cold?

And Stew does not mind being in a cool room, we both would rather that than a stinking hot room any day.

And before ya say it... in summer we will have a freakin BIG fan on to keep us cool.

SORTED.

CHRISTINA: It was our idea, not Steve and Bex's.  They said NO WAY for months.  But I insisted.

They did, indeed, decide to have a baby in their circumstances... but it's done and we move on.

As for them finding their own place... They would BOTH have to work full time to afford something here in Auckland, and it would be pretty IKKKK, and in a grotty area too.

AND also, if I was not available to babysit, they would be going backwards real fast having to pay for child care as well.

I LOVE the idea of Stew and me down in the garage!  There's a few really POSITIVE reasons why too... but they are rather personal, so I won't go into that here.

Rest assured my darling niece, we are not doing this just for the kids.

I decided to try and get heaps done today, so brought Lacy and Keera over to help.  Well... clearly Keera didn't do anything.
Lacy and Bex got stuck into it and we three girls got so much done.

ABOVE:  WOOO Hoooo!  One bonus of moving stuff around.  I found this lovely door knocker that I will use on the internal garage door!  I'd hidden it from Lacy, cos she was gunna nick it ages ago.

ABOVE:  not much left to take out of me room...

ABOVE: Lacy and Bex did most of the heavy stuff.

ABOVE:  they found the scales.  Lacy is such a tart!  She is 55 kilos.  I want to scream!  She can eat and eat and just never gets fat.  It ain't fair.  *sniff*

ABOVE:  just the bed to go! 

Then I can move all our wardrobe stuff down to the garage ... and our bathroom stuff into the family bathroom.  Then clean the room so Steve and Bex can move into it.

So... I said to Lacy ... let's leave the bed itself for the guys.  Would she listen?
HELL NO.  So, because she would have tried to do it herself... I had to help move the bloody thing.
It's now done.  Just have to clear out our wardbrobe and bathroom now!

AND THAT CAN WAIT.

Bex has cleaned the room, and helped with everything else too.... and she's just helped make meatloaf for dinner too.
I think she's a little bit excited to have a decent sized room!
Seriously, they have NO ROOM to move in their present bedroom... imagine a King Sized bed, Drawers, Baby's Wooden cot, Wooden change table, all in a 3m X 3m space.  

I can't wait to see how Bex arranges their new room.

I took Lacy and Keera home after we had got all my heavy stuff down to my 'room'... poor Miss Muppet has a nasty cold... and Lacy is exhausted.  She is so much like me in some ways.  When I get an idea in my head, I want to do it RIGHT NOW.  Lacy is the same.

End of Day:  didn't go quite as I had thought it would.
Forgive me for doing something NICE.
nite nite.