PART 1, You need a beginning before a happy ending.

IN THE BEGINNING

8 years ago we (me and the HOTH and the cat) were living in our first home which was a townhouse.  We always wanted a house with a back yard and a dog and he wanted a shed!!  Our sort of dream house/block of land came on the market and we grabbed it.  We knew the condition it was in and that we really only had about 2 years before we needed to do something as in knock it down. 

Time passed which will be Part 2 and 14 weeks ago we said goodbye to the "old girl"  I unashamedly cried on our last visit there  Even though we knew from the start that this was the inevitable and quite frankly I hated most parts of that house it was still OUR HOME 

It was where we had good times and bad times.  Good news and bad news.   We brought our babies home from the hospital, they learnt to walk and crawl and do all the baby stuff there. We added dogs and another cat  We froze in winter and sweltered in summer thanks to its uninsulation  I never had a bedroom door for 8 years.  The bathroom was disgusting with tiles falling off the wall and eventually a hole in the wall where a tile fell off.  The squeaky floorboards that could wake the whole house in the middle of the night if someone walked on them.  In fact it was nor even proper flooring it was just chip board.  The leaky roof which we even fixed 3 years ago but still leaked in the boys room.   Its kitchen was about the best part as the previous owners had only just put a new one in  The HOTH pulled most of it out and put it in his shed.  It never let in much light and it was really dark and dingy unless it was a bright sunny day.  It was always messy with no places for anything to go.  I could go on and on and on but I wont.

Fast forward 14 weeks and we are a week off handover on the new place and it looks a heck of a lot different but most of all has retained that feeling of HOME  We cannot wait to get HOME. 

Please feel free to contact me if there are any questions you may have about our experiences or if you need someone to bounce ideas off  help_stuck@hotmail.com