This is just me. A stay at home mom without a bunch of pretense. Don't mind my run on sentences and I will attempt to stay on topic and tell whoever decides this is readable stuff about our life here in Sydney. If I was telling you these stories you might never keep up with me...'cause I speak Sister Hotline SuperQuick with a bit of a twang. Here it is, who knows what I'll spout out about, but this hen is a cluckin'!

I am a mother, wife, daughter, sister and friend. I am not an adventurous sort by nature...so it's gonna take a lot of nurture to get me through this "adventure". Everyday life with two little ones keeps you busy...Same stuff, different continent, country, time zone, hemisphere...

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Hola Houston!

**Again, written a few months ago, never posted. But it's about time to wrap this all up, tie a bow on it and file it away. Looking for a new blog name, as I think, it helps me to write it out and get some perspective and venting done. Promise the next blog will be more positive:)**

It has been whirlwind here in Houston. House hunting, car hunting, adjusting to Central Time and the like!

We have, in just over two weeks, secured two vehicles and just officially signed the lease for our home in the suburbs of Houston, in KATY, Texas. It's not Sugar Land, but our monster couches will fit inside it and this my dears, is how our choices were made...

 First Impressions:


  • People are friendly and nice.
  • Houston, TX is as flat as Dallas, TX.
  • Don't mind missing the winter, but the temps seem to vary day to day from chilly to hot and humid
  • Texas Pride is even more serious business than I thought. Even like highway stuff like overpasses have the Texas star embedded in the concrete or the silhouette of the state. I kinda like it.


Things we are loving about being back in America...


  • being able to talk to people in the states at normal times, though habit and getting the children to bed have still kept my calls to the morning hours, generally.
  • BACON
  • Air conditioning
  • Good customer service! Particularly in restaurants...
  • Inexpensive stuff. Kids meals in a restaurant here can be approx. $5 versus $12-15 in Australia.
  • Special to TEXAS. The drive thru Margarita! Ummm....Yummm...Crazy
  • Proximity to family and friends:)


 Keeping this short and sweet. We are adjusting. We are living in a beautiful corporate condo overlooking a PetSmart parking lot. It has a few other stores and a Trader Joe's (wow, what I have been missing, having never set foot inside one till TX)  and in walking distance to restaurants, hair and nail places, grocery store, Hallmark. It could be worse...

 Believe me!
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