Home sweet home!

It took us two weeks until we found a home. It’s not the Home of our Dreams but it’ll do just fine for the first couple of years or so. It’s a brand new housing development where all the houses look more or less the same, ”executive housing with modern design and lots of light” according to all the realtors in charge of selling the properties. There’s a lot of light all right, our living room with dining area on the second floor has panoramic windows, turning our living area into a human aquarium, should anyone be a couple of metres up in the air that is. This means no more walking stark naked out in the kitchen to get something to drink, unless I intend to live up to the reputation of the free-spirited Swedish women of the 70’s. We have a large and wide balcony from the living room and a small patio outside the girls’ bedrooms. Perfect. I admit – I have no green fingers at all. Flowers and bushes do not seem to flourish in my care. I water the plants, I even give them nourishment but no, I don’t see any results like more flowers or healthy growth. In our garden in Thailand a mango tree and a papaya tree died even with my loving care and attention. Clearly I am not supposed to have any vegetation in my care. 

In a few days we’re moving in to our first house in Australia. Despite having lived abroad for almost 15 years now, we are Swedish in our hearts and souls which means a trip or two to IKEA before we can call our house our Home. And soon even Home sweet home.