it's been a month

We have lived here for a month! already! In the last week things have really started happening with the house. We have filled the tiny garden with flowers, by the summer it should be lovely, mostly pink, purple and white blooms. If we can win the war with the plant eating snails then I'm looking forward to seeing how pretty we have made it. Last MOnday Norah and I stripped the walls and lifted the laminate flooring in the front room, since then we have done the same in the back room and taken up all carpet and scraped all stairs (all 36 of them) in the hall and removed the vinyl flooring from the kitchen and had all of the downstairs floors sanded! they look amazing. We have also had some essential electrical work done and the large room at the top of the house has been converted into two rooms; one for Jem and one for Sam. We have been busy and it has seemed at times like the house has morphed into a building site! Obvioulsy to sand floors rooms need to be empty so there has been a lot of furniture moving as well, consequently we haven't been as sociable as we may have liked during the past week. We did however go to forest school last week. Norah loved it, she got to slide down a mud slide, use a hack saw, look for frogs and other insects, peel a stick, toast a marshmellow on a camp fire and then burn the stick and let's not forget her most exciting thing, go on a mini bus! On the return journey she pushed her way to the front of the queue and got herself a seat at the front of the bus, so that she could see where she was going! Very exciting stuff for someone who can usually only see where she has been lol. We met a lot of nice people at the forrest school, all of whom home ed their children. It was nice to be around people for whom home schooling is the norm. for a change.