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Big Plans, No Words
Dec. 31st, 2011 10:13 amI was going to write a great big post about my plans for 2012 but I am currently too tired and grumpy to manage. Ruby was up at 15 minute intervals from 8:00 til 1:00 last night. Nappy need changing? Changed. Bed need remaking? Done. Hungry? Fed. Thirsty? Given water. In pain? Gave her panadol. Why? Why? Why?
Anyway, my big plans are as follows.
We are not moving to a bigger house!
I investigated and decided that the time away from the kids involved in working 3 or 4 days a week (necessary for a loan) is not worth it. I would rather be with them, so I will keep working 2 days per week.
So, to achieve this I have been decluttering. I've taken about 4 loads of stuff to the charity bins, put some stuff up on Ebay, and binned quite a bit. I've got two boxes to go to the second hand book shop, one to go to the second hand shop at the university when it reopens, and one to be donated to the university library.
I still have the space under the stairs to go through. Feel quite pleased with the progress.
I am going to make major changes to the lounge. I've decided the desk will have to go (will put the computer on the table) and the TV and its cabinet will have to go as well. It was that or the couch.
Eventually I am going to swap around the rooms upstairs so Ruby and Pearl share the big room I am currently in (with Ruby). I will have to get a single bed, possibly lofted, to fit into the little room.
Also, I am going to see if I can get a loan to fix some things up around the house. (And they did really want to give me a bigger home loan so surely they'll agree to this.) The broken screen door can be fixed, the upstairs cold water tap reground, the drain replaced, the reticulation fixed.
Am feeling very positive about this.
I would rather live with less money and space and more time with the kids.
Anyway, my big plans are as follows.
We are not moving to a bigger house!
I investigated and decided that the time away from the kids involved in working 3 or 4 days a week (necessary for a loan) is not worth it. I would rather be with them, so I will keep working 2 days per week.
So, to achieve this I have been decluttering. I've taken about 4 loads of stuff to the charity bins, put some stuff up on Ebay, and binned quite a bit. I've got two boxes to go to the second hand book shop, one to go to the second hand shop at the university when it reopens, and one to be donated to the university library.
I still have the space under the stairs to go through. Feel quite pleased with the progress.
I am going to make major changes to the lounge. I've decided the desk will have to go (will put the computer on the table) and the TV and its cabinet will have to go as well. It was that or the couch.
Eventually I am going to swap around the rooms upstairs so Ruby and Pearl share the big room I am currently in (with Ruby). I will have to get a single bed, possibly lofted, to fit into the little room.
Also, I am going to see if I can get a loan to fix some things up around the house. (And they did really want to give me a bigger home loan so surely they'll agree to this.) The broken screen door can be fixed, the upstairs cold water tap reground, the drain replaced, the reticulation fixed.
Am feeling very positive about this.
I would rather live with less money and space and more time with the kids.
