After an amazing amount of stress, physical labour, coordination and time, we are now as of a week ago somewhat settled living on our property! We've built a bathroom and kitchen and backed a caravan in to the bigger of our two sheds, and this is now home.
Between Liz and I (with assistance from our ever-helpful parents), we have have run conduit for power, cabled all the data, built and installed kitchen cabinets and sink, waterproofed the bathroom, and coordinated the many sub-contractors who've made the place somewhat livable. That was difficult enough, but add in moving home (we have too much stuff!!) and two challenging little people and it's been in retrospect the busiest two-week period of our lives.
We now have the satisfaction of no more rent to pay, and many more smaller tasks we can complete at a somewhat more sedate pace over the next few weeks, months and years.
Phew.