When we moved into the dodgy 2 bedroom rented apartment, I was 37 weeks pregnant and had a toddler in tow. We (er…Aaron and friends) did all the moving ourselves and it took us about 12 hours.
This time, we didn’t kid ourselves and hired removalists. There was no way we would have been able to move all of our stuff whilst keeping the kids entertained and inside the houses despite the doors being wide open. Plus, we had the brand new large fridge and a very steep set of stairs to get down. Still, it took 7 hours, and that was after we brought a boot load of boxes to the new house every day for a week. It was pretty much just the furniture left, with a few boxes.
I seemed to have inadvertently hired the old lazy removalists. One of them stayed on the truck arranging the things the other slowly brought down. I would have imagined that someone that moves things for a living would be able to carry a decent amount of goods. When I saw him carrying things like one fan down the stairs at a time though, I my imagination is far more imaginative than I thought.
The kids and I played with the minuscule amount of toys I had in a backpack for entertainment during moving purposes, but they quickly got bored. An hour and a half or so in, I resorted to watching Peppa Pig on the iPad just to keep them from running out the very inviting wide open front door.
Hours later, the removalists were finished with all of the inside stuff. I somehow managed to keep them entertained the whole time. Moving things out of the garage was much easier, they just got on their bikes and rode around the apartment complex garage area and jumped up and down in muddy puddles that they made with the water tap.
Finally, we were able to leave, driving the 4 or so kilometers down the road in NSW to our new house. Entertaining the kids at our new house whilst the movers unloaded was much easier. Their room was already filled with their toys. There is a backyard for them to run in, complete with a tap for them to make their favourite muddy puddles.
$700 later, the removalists were done. A great big smile stretched across my face. We did it. We were in our very own house. The kids have room to play, inside and outside. No more landlords, no more real estate agents, or dodgy apartments. We can do whatever we want. We can paint the walls, put nails in to hang up heavy pictures, replace carpet with wood, make a vegetable garden, etc. Not that we will do all of those things, but we can if we want to, and that feels fantastic.
If you’re moving to Victoria, why not check out the new Eucalypt village?
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You could even start a new sticker collection on a door.
Speedy move compared to our glacial pace.
I could, but I’m too old to be doing that sort of thing now…
Your house is adorable! Congrats! I LOVE the brick. And the park!
That’s the beautiful house! I love the brick walls. I’d recommend painting the wall in the playroom with drawitpaint whiteboard paint. I did that with my kids and they have a blast! Just make sure you leave a box of markers by the wall and make sure they know it’s a special wall.