Welcome to my life!

I AM BACK AND HAVE JUST FOUND THIS POST, HALF DONE, SO AM POSTING NOW...APOLOGIES FOR IT'S UNFINISHED STATE! LOL

I have been so flat out these last few weeks, I keep meaning to come in and do a post and add some new pictures of the kids but things have been absolutely chaotic!
As I said in my last post, key hand over happened on the 17th of May, the day Steve flew out to work after 5 weeks off (Convenient if you ask me ;) LOL) and since then most of my days have gone like this: Get up and get kids to school, drive to the house and paint, finish at end of school time to pick up the kids then onto activities, dinner and bed. Repeat for 3 weeks straight! LOL

Anyways, Steve flew out the day we got the keys, after we got the keys we went to Bunnings to get sealer and laundry and toilet tiles only to find we had no money in our "money" account! Steve had only bee paid the week before so it was very far from normal to have no money so we paid for the "savings" money and I got straight onto the bank website. We found $1000 had been taken out the day before from Centrelink so instead of going straight to the house like planned we had to come home and Steve was stuck on the phone till he had to fly out.

After lots of to-ing and fro-ing between Centrelink (Who was claiming they hadn't taken money and call the bank and scamwatch) and the bank (Who were claiming it was legit and we needed to contact Centrelink for more details) it turned out that back in February when the fires came through we were each eligible for a $1000 "relief fund" payment (and $400 for each of the kiddos)from Centrelink. We all applied for it just and just before we went to Bali Steve's payment came through.

Apparently, someone gave the wrong bank account details and gave our bank details instead of their own so the money that went into the account (My money went into the savings account and Steve's into the spending account) that we presumed was for Steve actually wasn't. He was supposed to receive a letter telling him to go into CL to verify his ID and then he would receive the payment. We didn't get that letter and the payment went into our account so we thought nothing more of it. Fast forward to May and CL realised they had given Steve the money by mistake so took the money back out! No one contacted us to tell us this was happening and the bank authorised it without confirming it with us so we end up with over drawn fees when our direct debits came out and there was no money in there and we had to wait for a week till Steve came home again to be able to fill out the original ID form (Which came as soon as we told them we hadn't got it!) and get that money back!

Meanwhile, I was flat out sealing and sealing and more sealing on the house so by the time Steve came back, a week after we had the keys, the whole house was sealed. We then moved on to real paint! It was so much fun to pick the colours and I am really happy with the way they came out :)
We went with Dulux "Blind Date" as the main colour everywhere except the kids rooms, their toilet and the laundry...