Exhausted.
We spent all day yesterday packing and all day today moving into our new house. Our new house that we own*. The first house we’ve ever owned. And if all goes well, the last we ever own.
It’s a big old rambling 1940s home on a good sized block in the hills about 10 km from the Adelaide city centre. There’s lots of room and it is laid out so that even when the boys get older there will be plenty of space for all of us. We’re secluded from our neighbours, surrounded by trees and the moon and stars are clear and bright.
Now it isn’t perfect. Far from it. There’s a leaky faucet. The fence needs finishing. The shower is either hot or cold but never warm. The garden needs some serious work. I can’t figure out where all our stuff is going to go. The trains are frequent and close.
But it is ours. In all its glory and all its problems.
It is ours.
I’m sitting here on the couch, surrounded by boxes with the bloody farting dog at my feet trying to summon enough energy to get up and go to bed and watching that tired Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life”.
And tonight it kind of is.
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* Well, more accurately our new house that the bank owns. The White Stripes’ “De Stijl” is available 
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by Cat
18 Dec 2010 at 23:41
Congratulations to the whole Free Family. I wish you a lifetime of joy and good memories in your new home.
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by Erin
18 Dec 2010 at 23:56
Congratulations! Very happy for you guys! Love this post. Look forward to the stories and celebrations that lie ahead. Enjoy!
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by Nichole
19 Dec 2010 at 01:37
Congratulations! I’d like to see more pictures, please.
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by People in the Sun (Ret.)
19 Dec 2010 at 05:23
Congratulations! Trains are cool!
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by jen
19 Dec 2010 at 05:42
congrats
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by Jacob
19 Dec 2010 at 06:53
Don’t worry about the trains. I grew up in a 1917 house 150 yards from the tracks. The windows rattled a little when the train passed, but we’d literally have friends point out passing trains that we hadn’t noticed.
by arizaphale
19 Dec 2010 at 08:39
Are you still all speaking to each other
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Don’t forget we’re here if you need a hand with anything. So glad you’re in….when can we visit???????
Oh and I’ll lay you BIG money it’s not the last house you ever own. Just sayin
by kitty
19 Dec 2010 at 15:51
I used to live at Mile End under the flight path and we developed a natural pause in coversation as planes went overhead. Visiting friends found it hilarious, but it just became part of life for us. And the cab fare home from the airport was nothing so think how easy it’ll be to get into town! Moving’s a bugger though, I hope the boxes unpack themselves as some sort of Christmas miracle.
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by ellie
19 Dec 2010 at 21:30
Dogs fart in the best of times.
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by muskrat
20 Dec 2010 at 10:24
Good for y’all! Congrats on a lot of the hard part. Hope to move into the last house we ever buy (until the kids are grown, at least) sometime soon…we’ve been trying to sell/move for over a year now.
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by Ryan
20 Dec 2010 at 12:07
I love The White Stripes. AND, of course, that last image of you, exhausted, slumping next to a farty dog. Of course.
The White Stripes are almost as awesome as imagery.
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by flutter
20 Dec 2010 at 16:53
gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous
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by suzer
20 Dec 2010 at 17:31
Leaky faucets, fences, and hot water heaters are all easily fixable! Congrats and have a great xmas in your new place:)
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by courtney
21 Dec 2010 at 07:51
Congratulations! Can’t wait to see more pictures once you’re all settled in.
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by Courtney
22 Dec 2010 at 00:08
Congrats on your new home! Home ownership presents its struggles, certainly but on good days there is nothing like owning your own little bit of earth and house. Enjoy!
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by mickey
23 Dec 2010 at 05:06
Way to go on the house! (I had to come up with something other than “congratulations.”) Sounds lovely.
Trains are a deal-breaker for me, though, but maybe they’re not as close as I’m picturing, like the apartment Courtney once lived in where you could spit on passing trains from her bedroom window.
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by chris/formerlyfun
26 Dec 2010 at 11:04
Yay for putting down roots. Congrats FreeFamily.