First Post

Well here we go, the first post of my new blog. I have been reading a few blogs lately and thought it would be a good way to record some of the events and happenings in my life. I find I don't get a lot of time to sit down and write a journal or anything, but I can always find a couple of minutes to get on the computer and type in some thoughts.

Like most mums my time is taken up looking after kids, house, husband and the dog. I must admit the dog is the easiest. For the last 18 months we have been renovating our house, now this doesn't mean that we have been pulling down walls and installing kitchens for 18 months just that it has taken 18 months to finally look like it might be finished. It all started while we were living in Canberra, our house in Adelaide was empty for a couple of months so we thought it would be a good time to rip out the kitchen, knock out a wall and repaint the entire house. So whenever Adam was back in Adelaide for work he would go over and do more work. He started doing this in about Feb 2008, by April the family was getting ready to move home and he had to try and make the house livable. I was under the assumption that I was coming home to a huge mess. Adam had ripped out our kitchen and as far as I knew I was going home to cook on the BBQ and wash dishes in the laundry. But when I got home and was escorted in I was presented with a beautiful but not complete kitchen. Now it is the not complete part that I want to talk about because it is almost complete now that it is Aug 2009. We were missing some cupboards and there was still a hole for a dishwasher. Well I finally got a dishwasher and we finally got around to buying my big drawers to put my plates and things in. We also got tiles for the walls and some overhead cupboards. So things are going along nicely. Adam is almost finished the tiling, and when we get a few more supplies from Bunnings (one of my fav shops) he will put up the over heads.

So all in all I am pretty happy with how my kitchen is progressing. I don't think the kids appreciate all the hard work I am getting them out of. I remember as a kid washing the dishes and hating it. My kids will not have to do the dishes by hand but I am sure they will still complain about having to load and unload the dishwasher, that is when I finally let them touch it, at the moment it is out of bounds.

Well must go now and load my dishwasher again, I love how easy it is to do the dishes now, even Adam will do them.

XOX