An anniversary of sorts
Today, Owen and I have been in NSW for a whole year.
A whole year…..
12 months…
365 days…
Some days/weeks it feels like we have been here forever (well, for a long time anyway) and it really does feel like our home. These are the good weeks. The ones where preschool is good, the boys are behaving themselves, we have been out and about with friends, or we have had a few activities during the week, and not stuck at home with no excuses to go far.
Then there are those days/weeks where it feels like we are still the strangers down here. These are the bad ones. But they are getting fewer and farther between, thankfully. This is mainly because we have made some really great friends since we have been here.
Of our new friends, half are newbies to NSW, just like us! And we all seem to help each other settle into life in NSW. Having friends in the same situation as our family has been great. And these friends all mostly have young children too. Children really do help adults to make connections that we would have otherwise missed out on!
While this is not our true home (we will always be QLDers – even Reuben!!!) we are all happy enough to call Rouse Hill home for the time being…
Hopefully the next year will be as interesting as the last!
(the picture was taken from our house, about a month ago)
Happy Anniversary! Doesn’t seem like a year has gone by, but a lot has happened in those 12 months! Despite being here for almost 18mths, we are still the ‘new’ people in town. Our neighbour moved here when she married 30 years ago, she’s only just started to be called a ‘local’, so we’ve got a long way to go!