our little abode has been in a state of mayhem for a bit over a month now as we moved everything from the "spare" room into the living room whilst it got painted and re-carpeted. unfortunately, none of the stuff can go back into the "spare" room as it is now the "twins" room and is already full of baby paraphernalia.
anyway, i woke up on saturday and had a meltdown. like, literally, a meltdown of EPIC proportions. I just walked into the living room and all i could see was stuff and mess and dust and dirt. I was crying and yelling about the state of our house, and wailing "how are we supposed to bring two babies into a house as dirty as this?!" even josh saying to me "calm down, you are having a freak out and you are over reacting" didn't help. how could he not see all the dirt?????? i mean, seriously, how would two babies survive in a place as bad as ours?? we should be ashamed of ourselves! I even said we'd have to move out and maybe i should move to aus to live with my sister as she's such a clean freak haha.
after about 1/2 hour of crying, wailing, swearing and carrying on, josh and i began to clean up. we had just started when who should walk in but my in-laws. (so glad they hadn't shown up 1/2 hr earlier to witness my embarrassing meltdown!). i thought they had arrived to take us baby stuff shopping, so i quickly said "our house is messy, we have to clean" and my MIL replied, "yes and we are here to help you clean".
OH.MY.GOSH talk about knights in shining armour. or angels sent from above. or whatever. it was the best thing they could have done/said. and they weren't kidding. they spent all day at our house and only stopped for lunch. they rearranged our larder, cleaned our oven, fridge, helped us vaccuum and made us throw away alot of things that we had been holding onto. we moved our camping gear and xmas stuff from our hallway cupboard to the outside shed, and voila! we had space for josh's music gear. and they took away all of our dirty washing and washed it and dried it at their place and brought it back the next day.
Well, if we had any doubts about being supported, i think we need not worry any more! I still can't believe they just spent their whole saturday helping us clean our house. best family ever! now let's just hope i can handle the bathroom reno's!
That's loving support! So glad you have family to help you.
ReplyDeleteYou can come move in with me anytime.
ReplyDeleteWish I was there to help you get sorted for the bubs, but I can only help with information and finding things online, hopefully it is a little helpful to you.
I am more than sure that you will have great support in NZ with Deborah & Andrew and the rest of the family and friends.
AS you know mum and I will be over as often as we can to help you with T1 & T2 and Ian will be on the back burner, if you should need a helping hand & mum & I are not able to come to your aid.
Mum will be over in September to sort out whatever you need sorting :-D. Ian & I will be over in November for our road trip & also help you with the last minute things.
Love you heaps