Our new forever home

Sporadic blogging!

I have said it once and I will say it again – I have been busy!

So much has been happening and I haven’t been blogging about it.  However, it is my plan to get into some sort of routine so I can keep up this family record that (hopefully) will outlive me.

Great news!  We have moved into our new home on the Sunshine Coast.  I am so very happy to be here, even if it was a bit stressful (as buying a home usually is a bit – LOT!!!).

Our new home

We had joked that we would find our dream house in the first few weeks after we came up (and then be stuck with the rental for 6 months)…….. and that is exactly what happened – of course.

SOLD!

Once we got the kids settled in school we went around to some real estate agents to let them know what we were looking for in a house.  We wanted – 5 bedrooms, 2 living areas, around an acre of land, in ground pool, double garage and a shed and close to the boys’ school.

The pool

More pool!

One of the agents indicated that he may have a home coming up that met our criteria, but I didn’t think another thing about it, because they always try and get you to look at homes that don’t suit.

We received a call on to look at the house on the Saturday and he said it met all our criteria.  So off we went.

It was 95% perfect.  We couldn’t believe it.  EEEEEEKKKKKKK!

At this point I had my stress attack.  I had been okay up until that point.  I had coped with deciding to move, selling the house, arranging to move, arranging somewhere to live (very stressful), arranging new school for the boys, saying good bye to everyone (omg VERY stressful), driving for 12 hours with the kids, setting up a new house, starting a new school……..blah blah blah blah blah.  Then:

MAJOR STRESS ATTACK 😱

Although I have always been a stressor, ever since a terrible workplace experience I had a few years ago, it permanently changed my stress levels into more of an anxiety attack situation when I am under extreme stress.   Unfortunately this happened.  But thankfully, I recognised that I wasn’t functional and said to Greg that he had to make the decisions because I wasn’t in a place to be able to right at that time.  So, for two days I wasn’t functional.  After the building inspection I was FINE.  My stress levels went away and I have been all good since then.  We bought the house with no issues – well kind of…………

The issues were –

TERRIBLE, I repeat TERRIBLE plastering/paint job.  Please don’t DIY plastering if you have no idea.  After Greg finished the plastering he was going to paint.  I changed his mind when I got some painters in to do it for him.  They took 7 days, he would have taken over 7 weeks.  Money well spent.

Garden neglect.  Yes we knew this. OMG it was/is BAD.  Farmers friends everywhere, palm fronds EVERYWHERE, mess everywhere – 17 years worth of can’t be arsed clearing the garden.  Work in progress (but looking a million times better now).

Hot water heater busted.  After we moved in the hot water heat pump started leaking water and rusty water marks were running down the side of the tank.  We also had yellow/brown hot water.  Long story short – it was stuffed (and had been for a looooong time – bastards).  They must have cleaned the tank and it was raining when we had our inspection so you couldn’t tell at the time.  Upside (isn’t there always?) – got solar tube system put in (downside $4K) and haven’t had water heating on since installed!

General YUK.  Yeah, so the place was pretty dirty and the general level of care was about zero.  I picked up a full shopping bag of dog shit from the small fenced yard area (thanks arseholes) and so much dog hair from the sliding door tracks, screen doors, aircon unit and garden that it almost made me sick.

This pile is about 10 x this size now!!!!

Current/future projects are:

Kitchen refurbishment

Fix up pool area

GARDEN!!! (ongoing for a long time)

Decorating and getting the place as I want it

We will have some other larger projects later but these are enough for now.  I will upload pictures of our progress so we have a visual reference.  The photos I have attached are of the previous owners/real estate ones.  More of ours to come!!

BUT, despite all the above, it’s a freaking big beautiful house and perfect for us.  We love it.

AND WE OWN IT!!!!!!!!!

😀FARK YEAH – so happy 😁

We have now been in the house for about 4 weeks.  Mum and Dad came to stay last week which was great.  I haven’t yet gotten into a routine but will do so very soon.  In this time, I also got a new part time job, which I am really enjoying.  More on all that later!

Have a great week.

Rach xxx