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Finally have a blog

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So it's me, the computer programmer, who is probably the last of my friends to create a blog. Now all I have to do it actually keep it up.

As I write it is only 11 days until we move to our new house. We are moving to Windaroo, which is only ten minutes from where we are now. We have been in our current house for almost ten years and were ready for a change. I am also ready to have an office where I can close the door and Reid cannot spend his evenings using my postage stamps as floor decorations and my company address stamp as a tattoo (see photo below).

We also want to have a place where the kids will have their own space to entertain their friends as they get a little older and enter the "my parents are stupid phase". I think we are just about there with Megan already (she is 7). I've always said I want to have a house where the kids WANT to bring their friends home to hang out instead of me having to wonder where they are. Hopefully this is it.


It's in a gated community and also in a cul-de-sac, which I have grown to find quite essential as we have lived in a cul-de-sac for almost ten years. It has an outside undercover area that we loved as soon as we saw it:


It was only 2 weeks ago that our offer was accepted, so the last 2 weeks have been a whirlwind of packing and cleaning getting our house ready for sale. We've had 2 open homes so far, and I will be quite glad to be able to move out and not have to follow the kids around with a vacuum anymore.

I am excited and I am happy that I am excited because I don't think I've been excited about anything for a long time! Better get back to packing...

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  1. MalieFebruary 1, 2009 at 4:27 PM

    Wow Cassie, that house looks awesome! I love the undercover area as well. We're so glad you joined the blogging world.

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  2. Early Years ToolboxFebruary 1, 2009 at 9:45 PM

    Great to see you have started a blog. We are so excited about your family moving to Windaroo. Not long now. Wooohoooo!!

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  3. M2 (Melissa)March 4, 2009 at 10:00 PM

    Yeah! You have a blog and your new house is so beautiful! I love how warm it looks - so jealous!!

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