Moving house is hell. Can I just go back & live in the old one? <sob>

[Bumperlicious]

Apols for crap typing. On new iPhone as have no Internet & while it is lovely I'm not sure I can cope with any more changes. Am on the edge...

Moved house this weekend, enforced move due to landlord selling our flat. Admittedly the move is a good one. Have gone from 2 bed 1st floor flat with no outdoor space to 3 bed house with a garden, but but, despite no garden our flat was lovely, big regency style, 30ft lounge, high ceilings, nice leafy but town location. Now we are in new build on a residential estate & I fear we have made a big mistake. It's not our style, doesn't feel like home.
I don't know how to work anything - the double glazed windows & doors, the oven.
Gah can't see what I'm typing now decking iphone...

Oh its pants isn't it? Such a stressful experience. And absolutely horrible when out of your control due to the whimsy of a landlord. But you know it just takes a few weeks to get used to a new place, right? And a garden is a huuuuumungous asset, especially when you have two dc. Just think, when your new born arrives and your oldest child wants a run around, you can all go out in to the garden for an hour, rather than having to bundle up for a full-on outing to the park.

All our 'shabby chic' furniture (i.e. Beg borrowed & stolen mismatched stuff) now just looks shabby shit in a modern house.

I can't find anything in (sorry phone call interrupted) the new house. It's all just hideous. I want to curl up in bed & cry. Oh did I mention that I am 6 months pg & am exhausted from being on my feet since Friday?

Thanks bbhat, you are right, the garden will make it so worth it. Just having a wobble. Pregnancy is not a good time to move, especially in this heat. My ankles are throbbing!

"Day 4 in the new Bumperlicious house and Bumperlicious continues to be surrounded by boxes and feel depressed"

We don't seem to be getting anywhere! We bought some shelves from IKEA at the weekend and it was only yesterday when DH put them up that he realised that they were the wrong colour, so he made another trip (the third in a week) to get the right ones (hoping that we can sell the wrong ones).

I've been at work all day and ache and my bump hurts, I feel bruised on the inside. DH has been shopping to buy stuff like mirrors and new leads that we need and been dealing with an exhausting DD so it just feels like everything is going so slowly. It still doen't feel like home

I'm sure I am overreacting due to being pg, but I am not coping with this move very well. I miss my old house, with it's massive sash windows, I miss my old 'posher' neighbourhood, I miss my big fireplace. I miss solid walls. This place feels like if you lean on the wall you might fall through to next door. I've even got to get a new midwife as technically I have moved areas.

I feel very

Chin up, we are moving in two weeks time and me and DD have just got back from Belgium where we looked at the house we have rented. I was so sure it was the right thing when we signed the contract but, on arrival am having second thoughts. I didn't realise it would be so tall and thin. DD didn't like it because it had stairs and was too big. I think on balance it is the right thing to do, we have to leave Switzerland due to DH's new job, but it is a real pain in the arse TBH. I have different issues with furniture, all our stuff is modernish which suits the flat we live in now, but will probably look like shit in the house which is around 150 years old.