The move and more.....

We are only on dial-up at the moment which is painfully slow! and the reason why I haven't been on till now. I decided that I was going to have a lazy morning and spend some time blogging and catching up on emails etc. I do have lots of other things to do but they can wait until later. The last time I had a lazy morning was the last time I blogged, so I have the laptop on my knee, with trashy morning T.V. on in the background, drinking coffee!

A lot has happened since my last post and we have been very busy..... We finally moved into our new home on the 1st October, which ended up actually being the 2nd as we didn't get the keys until 4.30pm due to someone at the municipality office sitting on paperwork for over a year and couldn't put a simple stamp mark on the severance papers, but that's another story! Luckily mum and Paul were still here to help us move, we couldn't have done it without them.

It certainly feels good to have a home once more. We have gone from not having much to do living in rented accommodation for 3 months to working non stop! With 30 acres of land there is not a lot of time for rest, especially in the fall :) Craig made the leaf clearing a little easier this week though as he brought a leaf blower which definitely takes away a lot of hard work. The kids love it, especially the fact that they get to ride to school on the bus everyday. It picks them up at the end of the driveway and drops them back at the same place. I also started work, 3 days a week, it is great so far and fits in perfectly with family life. Very relaxed and slow paced compared to the UK, and I have my own office :)
Within a few days of Mum and Paul going home Shanara was here for a week, which wasn't long enough, I started work the week she was here and wasn't able to do as much as I would have liked and also we hadn't even been in the house a week at this point!! The weekend that Shanara went home we had more visitors - Stu, Ruth and the boys, we had a great weekend, and the kids were only seen and heard at feeding times :) they found their own pleasures out in the wood. I wasn't organised enough to enjoy myself fully and was still feeling a little stressed out, but next time I promise I will be more with it, which I think could be next weekend!

This Saturday is Halloween as you know, but it is our 1st in Canada. I can't believe the difference here, everyone really goes to town in decorating their houses up weeks before the event and not only with pumpkins! We will be taking the boys into the village for 'Trick or treat' with a friend and her son. Hopefully it won't be too cold out :)

Now I must really get off my backside and get some things done. I wish I could sit around all day but I need to clean the wood stove for tonight's fire amongst the other cleaning!!
I will be back later though with some new pictures when I have created a layout, it just might take about and hour to load on dial-up :) So watch this space for more....