Feels like home already

Yes, been sleeping here just over a week and it feels like home. First night was Friday 16 April. Busy weekend as we tried to unpack and organise things to make the place liveable but with moving too much into the bedrooms before we decorate and without putting too much on the floor to let the polyurethane harden. My parents were in town for the weekend so they helped me unpack the kitchen and the three of us basically shoved stuff in cupboards and drawers where ever it would fit. That got rid of a good number of boxes. Thursday this week saw another trip to bunnings - the 4th I think - for a cheap 2 door cupboard to use as a pantry. The pantry, missing from the galley styled kitchen, is now out the back door in the laundry. The exciting part of a pantry was unpacking the remaining kitchen boxes and then clearing the benches! Yah, I have a functioning kitchen now and have cooked a few meals, including entertaining a friend for dinner last night. Am loving having open plan lounge/kitchen. While another place I lived had the kitchen right by the lounge/dining, the walls were still intact, so as far as guests were concerned you were withdrawn from proceedings. Works well even just during the day with Arthur as I can quickly organise food or do a few dishes without needing to move his play area.

This weekend has seen a beginning to the recorating of the bedrooms. Unexpected find number 2: while only two layers of wallpaper in the master bedroom the underneath is painted. Well that is as stubborn as an icelandic volcano. It's taken my husband two 8 hour days with me chipping in gentleman's hours between breast feeds and playtime to get 75% of the room stripped. So now looking at taking a month to paint our first room, so much for doing a room a weekend like the reality shows, let alone the ludicous 60 minute makeover. Surely more time goes into planning the execution of the 60 minutes and mapping it all out that just doing a room at normally speed.

Arthur is not particularly amused by Mum, Dad and the floor being covered in peppermint specks of paper. He lasts about 1/2 hour of watching stripping before he needs a change of scene. We've managed to start solids this week. In amongst stacks of boxes and just generally stuff, I focussed on achieve some parenting. Having decided I had everything to get started on Monday, it took until 3pm - his afternoon feed to be ready to try. Well into the swing of it now. Spent one evening this week cooking pumpkin, and managed to puree it this morning for Arthur to eat today. Pumpkin had a worse reaction than rice cereal or banana. But then he turns and opens his mouth again, ahhh, the curiosity. Curiosity got the cat and almost Perky the pukeko, but luckily human nature bowls us on, your either a genius or a darwin award contender. Hopefully we all have more time in the first category not the second.