Put the verb in brackets into the correct form ?

Put the

verb in brackets into the correct form !

Moving house I come from a very large

family and recently my parents ___decided___________________ _____ (

DECIDE ) that they __had spent________ ( SPEND ) long

enough living in an overcrowded hous e in Birmingham .

“ We __would

move_____ ( MOVE ) to the country ” , my father __announced_______________

_____ ( ANNOUNCE ) one evening.

“ I ___will sell___________________

_____ ( SELL ) this house and we ___are going to live___________________

_____ ( LIVE ) on a farm ” .

So last week we ______loaded________________

_____ ( LOAD ) all our belongings into tw o hired vans, and for the last few

days we __have been trying____________________ _____ ( TRY ) to

organise ourselves in our new home.

Yesterday, for example, my two brothers and

I _________started_____________ _____ ( START ) painting the upstairs

rooms.

Unfortunately, while I __was mixing____________________ _____

( MIX ) the pai nt, one of my brothers ___opened___________________ _____ (

OPE N ) the door.

Nobody __had told____________________ _____ (

TELL ) him that we ____were__________________ _____ ( BE ) in the room.

So instead

of painting the walls we ___spent___________________ _____ (

SPEND ) al morning cleaning paint off the floor.

But worse things ____have

happened__________________ _____ ( HAPPEN ) since t hen.

This morning,

when I ______woke up________________ _ ( WAKE ) up, w ater ____was

dripping__________________ _____ ( DRIP ) through the ceiling next to

my bed.

We ____have spent______ ______ _____ ( SPENT ) the last five hours

repairing the roof.

It is not all bad news though .

The school in the village

nearby _______was closed_______________ _____ ( CLOSE ) down two years ago,

and my parents _____haven’t found_________________ _____ ( NOT FI ND ) another

school for us yet.