Sorry, I've been MIA lately. Just the usual not-enough-hours -in-the-day scenario. March was pure and simple crazy with my 40th and then two straight weekends away in a row plus concerts and normal life somehow fitted in inbetween.

Of course our first "quiet" weekend at home we decide to do up the kids' bedrooms. This involves numerous trips to Ikea and adairs and the mattress discount place in the back streets of Rhodes. Big Jay spends the day dismantling and putting together furniture and lugging things down to the garage (which is now at capacity). However, at the end of two exhausting days we end up with a very nice little kids' area. A much cooler big boy's room for Will, a very pretty room for the Grumpy Princess and a much neater looking TV room (thanks to the dad's early birthday present of a Sony flat screen tv for the kids - what every 3 and 9 year old need!).

Will's room.

There's still a desk to go in (but there's only so much Ikea DIY Big Jay can handle in one go).

The Grumpy Princess' new bed (there are three big useful drawers underneath and a trundle).

The "work" corner. A Grumpy Princess' work is never done.

The slightly blurry monsters who terrorise this house ("hi" Aunty!).

I'm going to change the name of my blog to "It's a hard life but someone has to do it". I feel like I'm saying that phrase on an hour by hour basis. I'm giving myself the major shits.

This was our Saturday morning: A half hour walk to Telstra Stadium (along the way we talked and watched lizards scuttle through the undergrowth); the kids played on the fantastic, post-modern playground near the Overflow; a walk back towards home which included going through the beautiful new Brickpit Walk and then through Wentworth Common (see pics below).

Here are some pics from our walk up the Bay Marker Hill in our first week:

It's a hard life...

I'm a bit scared to actually write this but... there is a good chance we will be moving... into a waterfront apartment. It's a fabulous apartment we saw a few months ago but put out of our minds because of the price tag. Some things have changed and it may be a possibility.

I have always wanted a waterfront apartment. A dream. Given, this one isn't on Sydney Harbour but we can work our way towards that. It is on the Parramatta River and we would have our very own shipwreck right outside our huge entertainment deck.

Anyway too anxious and crazy to go into more details right now. So much to do and think about.

Stay tuned for more info.

Here's a sneak peak if you're interested. My new home?