The Tui's Nest

As many already know, about two months ago, we said goodbye to our first real New Zealand home at Fiddlehead Flat in order to accommodate our growing family. We were sad to see it go and our wonderful neighbour Pamela, but excited to accompany the new bundle of joy with a change in address.

Having Dad down to give us a hand moving was amazing as the two of us loaded the van together and hauled everything into our new house. This freed Mary-Ellen up to relax and focus on Thomas while Mom did a bit of cleaning before we moved things into place. After a few trips we were settled in, all the furniture reassembled and moved into place, at least till Mary-Ellen decided she wanted to move things again. Two months in and we are starting to feel like the space is ours. We have a larger kitchen will be great for all the cooking I will do this Winter. A proper space for our dining set means we can use the table for what we purchased it for!Our living room is well set up to entertain and convenient for feeding and changing the little one. It is also nice to be able to set up the furniture to face each other, which we were unable to do with the old living room.

Thomas has taken up temporary residence in our room so we can keep an eye on him through the night while the second bed room is set up for the numerous guests we have visiting us over the next several month. Eventually the room will be slowly converted to Thomas's room.

Outside, we have plenty of green space which Thomas can enjoy as he gets older and finally a decent space to put a barbecue which Mary-Ellen was thrilled to get. The gardens are nice and fairly simple but there is a lot of work that I have to put into them to get things back to what they were when they were planted. Having a covered carport is also amazing, allowing us to hang laundry out and get Thomas in and out of the car without getting him wet when it is raining.

And after two months we are quite settled in and we have named our new place The Tui's Nest, a place for us to raise our little Kiwi-born child. And after all this work to get a place where Thomas can rest his head comfortably, turns out he is not to discriminate as to where he decides sleep.