Category: House

Anyone Still Out There?

It’s been a while, eh?

So, Um……well, we are moved….or moving….or started moving or something.

We are not completely out of the old house, but we are living in the new place.

As of yesterday, the floors are in and we have set up our bed and well……I’m feeling a tad bit more settled than I was earlier this week.

We’ve set up the front room – sort of – ya know, as much as you can with no furniture.

Here is a sneak peek from my phone….

house-peek

Okay, it’s not that we have no furniture, but no couches…..fun eh? So if we invite you over, bring your lawn chairs….fun, fun.

We still have a long way to go, but we’ll get there.

I just wanted to check in. Say “BOO”! Let ya’ll know that I’m still alive and that we FINALLY got internet……

All the lovely people around here have their wireless connections locked up tighter than Fort Knox and the one signal that we could get was extremely spotty and very weak.

So, we are back on-line and lovin’ it.

Now, to put the baby to bed and hope for 2 hours of time to clean and sort and organize and arrange.

How’re you all loving the heat?

So it was Canada Day, eh?

and the day pretty much flew by with nary a mention of our sacred holiday.

Okay, that’s not entirely true, but it was a great day and a sucky day…..I’m pretty much an all time fan of the whole…..it was the best of times and it was the worst of times mentality.

My life seems to be one giant contradiction.

The best part of the day was Jon and I being able to stay in bed until almost 10am….and even better was that during that time, we were not negligent parents….or ya know….at least not much.

None of the 4 kids woke up until after 9am…..HOW THE CRAP DOES THAT HAPPEN?

Now truthfully, the baby woke up at 6am, nursed and then went back to sleep, so we’re not talking miracles of all night hours, and HOURS or uninterrupted sleep, but seriously, this was pretty darn close.

Then we got up and after that incredibly slow start to the day we managed to make a small….pretty much minuscule…dent in the whole packing/moving situation. So minuscule that it’s almost not worth mentioning except for the fact that we got Jeremy’s room completely cleared out and the poor child is left with one box…yup, only 1 box of Lego to play with until we move.

I did manage to fold and sort through some of our Mt. Everest of laundry – I even vacuumed the carpet and cleaned the kitchen and even managed to put away all of the fruit and veggies that we bought.

So, even though it was not a great packing day, it was still a great “get on top of things” or better known as “attempt to claw your way out of the deep, dark, monstrosity of a hole that you been living in” day.

Jon’s parents come out to drop of Xani (She’s been out for her birthday shopping trip with Nana) and they stayed for a nice Canadian dinner of tortilla’s….cause we’re all patriotic like that….ya know, with the American and the New Zealand heritage shining through. Then they left and Jon took the kids out to our front patio to attempt to see the few fireworks that actually make it taller than the church down the block…..I nicely suggested that he take them over to a friend of ours house who live really close to the field where they set the fireworks off.

The kids freaked out so excited that they got to go….I’m not sure how excited Jon was, but he really does like fireworks…

Me? I’m indifferent. If we are there when they go off. Nice, but if you’ve seen them once, you’ve seen them and it really doesn’t do anything for me. So….I stayed home and caught up on a bit of work….totally sucks, eh? But it was necessary, if not so fun or holiday-ish.

And that was it. No fun parades attended, no partying with friends, no fun Canada day fairs or amusements parks or pancake breakfasts….just a boring day in the middle of the week that has TOTALLY screwed me up because it totally feels like a weekend and yet…I have to go into work tomorrow. What is up with that?

Oh well, one day and then a real weekend. YAHOO! And, guess what we’re doing tomorrow…we are signing the paperwork for our house with the notary. Tomorrow we sign our lives away. It’s so exciting.

We get legal possession on next Thursday and then the flooring should be finished NEXT weekend (my bro is working on it right now) and then we can be all moved in…sort of….we’re still working on all those details and how that’s all going to work….I’m so excited! EEEEEKKKK!

Although, I dying a little at the thought of cleaning almost 10 years of living out of this place…..hold me as I contemplate the sheer effort required to clean every little crevice and all the big walls and behind the stove and fridge…..you know, ll those fun places……Yuck!

So, what did you do for Canada Day or what are you doing for July 4th or if you’re not from Canada or the States…how was your week?

All Boxed Up

The kids and I declared today that Daddy was terribly nerdly as he requires that ALL our boxes are the same size so that we can pack them and stack them in perfectly neat rows and stacks.

And I thought I was the one with the OCD tenancies inherited from my father and grandmother.

Whew! I am brutal tired right now.

I packed and packed and packed and packed some more.

And I have thrown out half our house – it feels like – and it’s awful the amount of junk that we have collected over the past 8+ years of living here. It’s amazing to me that there is so much crap that I’m not even willing to garage sale, and yet it was too valuable to throw out.

Are you kidding me? WOW!

The worst part of today was when Jon loaded up the van with bags and bags of garbage to take to the dump and a few big garbage bags of clothes to drop off at the thrift store and then he drove off only to call me about 15 minutes later with the news that the dump had new hours and closed at 5pm on weekdays….it was 5:07pm. So that meant that he had to come home and unload all the crap back into our garage. UGH! I can sense the mountain of garbage down there. I was so looking forward to one less thing cluttering up my mind and now it sits there….so SO annoying.

It feels a little weird to have boxed up so much and to have so many bags of garbage and to feel like I’ve not really done anything.

I mean, my house was a bit messy when I started this morning and now it’s pretty clean. Not amazing, but definately WAY BETTER than this morning AND just today, I managed to throw out a bin liner of crap and also to pack away about 15 boxes.

I’m guessing that I do a pretty good job of keeping everything tucked away in behind cupboards and in closets and drawers….I’m liking the fact that my house is looking a little emptier…not as much as you’d think it would look with the number of boxes down in the office/storage area. I’d like to try and keep it that way.

But for now I’m tired……so So SO tired.

And so, I shall go to bed.

I’m off to work tomorrow and then back home and then to my sister’s wedding rehearsal (an hour away) and then home again and them back to my sisters wedding and then to church and then to the evening service, as we are responsible for that this week as well………and so tomorrow starts the crazy busy weekend that I’ve been dreading all week. Not that I’m dreading my sister’s wedding, just the craziness of the whole weekend.

But I am looking forward to moving into my very own house…..and it’s coming soon. Oh So Soon! YIPEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Geli’s 12 Year Old Perspective on “The Move”!

Hey Everybody,

I thought that I’d take a moment to get a different perspective on our upcoming move. Angelica is my first victim.

I’ll be asking her a few questions and she’ll answer them……imagine it working that way!!!!

Question #1

What is/are the most exciting thing/s about this move?

I’m closer to school. I am really, REALLY close to Nana’s house. Ummmm…What was the question again? Ummmmm…. (apparently this move ain’t so exciting for her…or she’s just really struggling with that whole pre-teen “what is the right answer” crap.) I kinda like the part where I get a really cool room down stairs. It has a nice big living area for everybody to be in….and if it gets to loud I can just go down stairs to my room and I like that there are lots of bathrooms.

Question #2

What is the most stressful thing about this move….or what are you worrying about?

I have to go back to school with Xandra and Jeremy. I have to share a room with Xandra downstairs. The huge back yard that we have is owned by everyone else and I can’t do anything in it…….ummmm, ummmm, ummmm……oh the TV/Wii room is right beside our room and Jeremy gets up early to play on the Wii. We can’t ride our bikes or play on skate boards on the town house roads.

Question #3

What to you think about moving schools and having to make new friends and leaving old friends behind?

Well, for having to make new friends and leaving the old friends behind. I still have the old friends e-mails and so it’s easy to stay in touch like and and it’s only a half and hour drive to go and visit them. And for new schools, I’ve changed schools ummmm……3 times now and so this one is not too much different than the other ones. I like that I’m going to a French school and that it’s close to where we are moving to.

Question #4

Is there anything else that you think about, regarding this move?

Ummmmmmm……………I am excited that I am finally getting my room clean. We are throwing lots of stuff out and clearing out the excess stuff out (like for winter) and putting it all in boxes and putting it in my dad’s office to get ready to move. We are also going to have a garage or moving sale and get rid of lots of stuff from that.

Question #5

You’ve lived in this house for most of your life. Are you sad to move away or excited?

Kinda both. Excited because it’s going to be a challenge to remember where everything is….but not to much of a challenge…like all the new spots for everything like the cups and bowls and plates…..that kinda stuff….and sad because I’ve lived int his house most of my life and lots of stuff has happened while I’ve been living here….like Nathaniel dying and we’ve made lots of stuff in the big forest in our back yard but it’s been mostly taken down by the teenagers (local kids). I have a few really, really, really, really, really good friends. But overall I am quite excited. It’s gonna be a change.

So, there you have it…..straight from the horses mouth……just kidding, but if you know Geli – you know that she likes horses….. so that was my lame attempt at a little humor.

Stay tuned for more house news in the not to distant future and for more answers from some of the other kids….

Randomness

I sat in the baby’s room last night, listening to him scream and then stop and then scream and then stop and all the while singing and shushing him and desperately hoping that he would just hurry up and “go to sleep” already. Fun Times, I tell you. Fun Times! No, I can’t just leave him in there all alone to scream himself to sleep. One – there is that whole, “life is precious and even more so since I held my son in my arms and then left him at the hospital never to see him again” thing and two he can sort of climb/fall/drop out of his bed and I don’t want him hurting himself. It wasn’t that long and he was stopping and starting which means that he wasn’t really serious….just pissed!

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Jon stayed working late in Vancouver last night and so it was all 4 of the the monkey versus me in the evening struggle. Again with the even more funner times. I don’t think “funner” is a word, let alone the phrase “more funner”, but I’m not changing it.

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TMI warning…….you’ve been warned…..read at your own comfort level….

Remember last month when I talked about this amazing tea and how it had totally helped me out with regards to extremely heavy flow. At that point it hadn’t done anything about the length of the cycle (42 days I think it was last month which I attributed to nursing, but I’m still nursing right now so…….?) Well, I’m so pleased to be able to say that this month I am ROCKIN’ a whole 29days. Yup! I almost didn’t believe it, but it’s kind of hard to ignore the signs. I was pretty certain I had at least another week or two, and when I counted out the days….WOOO HOO! 29 , BABY! And so far, we’re rocking the lighter flow and so this is truly what I’d call, “A Happy Period!” Thank you, Always! And just so you know….I’ve always (pun intended) hated that slogan.

But I am totally happy with my tea and the way that my body is regulating and cycling “normally”. I wasn’t even as “witchy” as I can sometimes be around this time of the month……that’s good too, eh? AND…..it probably explains a little of my “down” mood over the past week….right? Now that I think about it, it would also explain the wicked tummy ache that I had on Sunday….hmmmm?!?!?

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We had the Home Inspector over to the town home yesterday morning and apparently we are buying the best deal on the face of the planet or at least in BC. Two elderly people who have not really lived in the house for the past 14 years, since it was built, are giving us an immaculately cared for place. Little things like the BRAND NEW, installed 2 months ago dishwasher…has never been used because how many dirty dishes can two old people make and really, its faster to just hand wash them. And they are leaving behind their little in perfect working order freezer so we can ditch our energy sucking monster that we can never seem to fill up any how. And the 14 year old water heater, looks like new and only it’s serial number shows it’s true age……honestly…the water heater is the only thing (aside from the roof which we know about) that we might need to replace in the somewhat distant future. The home inspector figured that the water heater might spazz out when actually expected to…you know……work! With 6 people, and at least one load of laundry per day and at least one load of dishes in the BRAND NEW dishwasher…..it’s going to be something that gets a work out….

But…..we are getting a wicked, WICKED deal. And the tools….OH MY GOODNESS….I should let Jon tell you about the tools….some that have never been used and they are leaving them for Jon…He feels like he’s gone to testosterone heaven.

I do believe that we are being given a HUGE blessing in the this town home; and while I’m still struggling with SHARING my property and not just having a stand alone HOUSE….I can see how this is SUCH A BLESSING FOR US in SO MANY ways.

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I’ve not packed one more box since the weekend and a huge part of me is FREAKING OUT ABOUT THAT. Another part says….hey, it’ll all get done, right?

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I’ve gone to work today and left a brutally messy house behind me. I hate to say this, but honestly….I don’t even want to come home because it’s going to be even messier….unless Jon has done something about it and there is nothing that I care to do about it until tomorrow when I have my next “home” day. And so…it sits….unhappy and messy….and causing stress.

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I can’t wait for school to be over because seriously….if we had to go through another month coughing up as much dough as we have this past month for various field trips…..we’d be bankrupt….seriously. Why do they save it up until the last month? Why not spread it out over the year? We are fortunate enough to be able to afford these field trips (times 3 kids), but I GUARANTEE you that there are more than just a few parents who can’t and who are feeling incredibly guilty that they can’t nd so are going into debt so as not to be embarrassed over it. It’s not cool.

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I think that’s all I got for ya right now….but I’ll leave you with two questions?

Are you a sock person or a no sock person? (I’m a “no sock” person, year round)

What is your favorite “summer” colour? (my favourite “summer” color is red…think strawberries, watermelon, cherries)

You’ll Never Believe This…but You Probably Will!

Sunday June 7th un-published post

Guess what our Realtor brought us this morning?

An offer from the owner’s of THE HOUSE.

I’m guessing that they figured that we were LYING when we said that we had another offer that we were planning on buying if they didn’t get back to us. SO STUPID!

I’m so upset.

This whole house buying thing should be an exciting time, right? I feel so disappointed and nervous and upset and bothered.

I feel like we made the right choice in choosing the town home over the house. We both felt like this town home “felt” like home when we walked in.

I think that the unknown is stressing me out.

Living with “the Strata”, and wondering how Jeremy will handle the “rules” of the Strata, and we read the minutes wrong in one area and totally believed that there was a rule that ALL the venetian blinds HAD to be down (touching the window sills) and the options were either opened or closed…..I would feel like I was in a prison. Apparently, the Strata “tried” to pass this as a rule and it was denied 9 votes to 11 votes. I can’t even fathom what kind of people live here. Not only that, but the kids aren’t allowed to ride their bikes in the complex. I’m not sure that there are any kids who are my kid’s ages let alone very many kids in the town home at all. I know there are a few and in the minutes over the past 2 years there is exactly ONE complaint about some owner putting up a swing set (which of course is going to get some flack as the rules clearly state that you CANNOT DO THAT under penalty of death). No Children related complaints, so that’s saying something.

Not sure what it’s saying exactly, but it’s got to be saying something, right?

I had this notion that when we bought our first place that I’d be so excited and that I’d be planning and dreaming and hoping and wishing and all I feel is………………depressed.

How horrid is that?

What is wrong with me?

I could be lying. I could tell you how excited I am. (I am excited to be putting money into our future and not into someone else’s future.) I could go on and on about how this is the best thing ever and blah, blah, blah, blah….

But I’m not. I’m just being honest.

This is all new for me and frankly a little scarey.

I’m not scared of the mortgage. Its just the blinking unknown……..

Why do all my control issues rise up now? I thought that I had made such big strides forward away from all that crap that terrorized my life for SO MANY YEARS…..why is it such an issue now.

I can see the town home in my head….when it’s been updated. It’s beautiful. It’s one of those things where you can look at it and even looking past the 80’s blue window treatments and curtains….and the carpet in the main floor bathroom (old man splash back, YUK!) and the pink-tinted white walls and I can see us entertaining and enjoying it. If we had unlimited funds, I would slightly rearrange the kitchen and put in an Island and shrink the length of one wall that separates the kitchen and dining room. See, I can totally see it. It’s a great place………

Monday morning now……I started this yesterday……

I thought I had finished this post up and published it, but apparently Jon and I were talking so much that I totally forgot that I hadn’t even finished this let alone posted it…..nice. Shows a little where my head space is.

I had a good sleep last night, and even though I still don’t feel SO FREAKING excited about everything….it doesn’t all feel quite so depressing.

I think that I’ll spend the day tidying my house and possibly packing a few things – if I feel like it. I’m just putting it out there that I am also going to make a meal plan for this week AND post it. It will help this week to flow just a little smoother.

Is it horrible that I am looking forward to September. Things should be settled by then (and here is here my inner pessimist says, “Yah, but what new things will come have come up….isn’t that horrid?) and we will be living in our house and settling into routines and I’m hoping that I will feel a bit less “outta control”.

I am only slightly apologizing for my extreme over use of punctuation. It’s a semi-accurate representation of how I feel – all exclaim-ey and everything.

Well, I’m off to figure out a meal plan for this week and then I’ll post it and My next post after that…..

I’m gonna post about something that has NOTHING to do with all this stupid house business. YAH!!!!

Once Again…….

Well, we attempted to get the house one last time.

We figured that it was kind of foolish to just walk away from something that we really wanted for just $2000 and so we contacted the owners of the house once more to see if they would sell. It initially sounded like it could possibly happen and then the 2pm time that they were going to respond by….well, it came and went.

And so we have walked away. Forever!

We have come to a verbal agreement with the owners of the town home and are waiting to get the paperwork back from them. I’ll admit that I’m nervous seeing as the paperwork had time to come in this evening, BUT……….the couple we are buying from is elderly and so I’m assuming that could mean no e-mail or fax machine to send and/or scan the signed paperwork to us. I’m assuming that the realtor has to go over and give them the paperwork to fill out…..and maybe he was just too busy tonight or maybe he already had plans…..But, seeing as out most recent situation has not left a great taste in our mouths…..Yah, I’m worried….or nervous….or whatever.

We should find out by Monday at the latest – I’m assuming….again with the assuming and the OVER USE of periods……..

It’s so hard to get excited when you don’t feel very certain about the future, BUT…..if we did get this place, then we have possesion on July 9th….and then we have a month to get in and to also get this place up to par…..

We’ve been living here for 9 years. We moved in June 2001 and would be “officially” moving out August 1st….unless a miracle happens and this place can get rented out for July 15th…which I’m not thinking is very likely.

I’d love to be able to get the main floors replaced before we moved in, but again…not sure if that’s a possibility.

Another thing this move (within this time frame) means – is that we can register the kids for the Late French Immersion School and have that all settled before the end of this school year….

Any way, We’ve been packing and decluttering and trying to pare things down. I only want to take the MOST IMPORTANT things….No crap filling up this house.

Well, it has been a long and emotional day and I am going to go to bed.

You’ll all hear when/if we get the place……I’d appreciate a prayer that I’d be able to chill until I know for certain. It’s getting a little dicey inside my brain.

Thanks!

Steppin’ off the rollercoaster for a moment

Alrighty……..so we played the game with the owners of the house….They verbally agreed and accepted our offer last night.

We were out early yesterday evening, ran home and printed off all the papers, signed everything, scanned it into the computer and sent it back to the realtor.

We hadn’t heard anything by lunch time today and were feeling a little anxious. Bad Sign, eh?

Earlier this afternoon, we received news that they decided to change their minds. We understand that in BC a verbal agreement is supposed to be good until the paperwork gets signed, but apparently these guys don’t know that.

I know, I know…it’s not “official” until it’s a done deal. I know already….

The thing is…we really wanted the house. I hate saying that. I hate that I’ve lost something that we really wanted over two cruddy thousand dollars…….

They came back to us and said that we altered the deal – which we didn’t – and we even have the paperwork with their signatures on it to prove it, but they are refusing to sign off on the final paperwork and they’ve upped the price by $2000 and the problem is……There is no guaranteeing that they won’t jack us around a bit more before it’s all finalized. AND…..is there are these kinds of issues with them, then who knows what kinds of problems there are with the house that they are not disclosing.

So to explain where we are at……We are angry and upset and disappointed.

We sat out on our deck last night – dreaming about what we would do. We had the rooms laid out and it was going to be amazing. We had talked about the garden and then clothes line and about what we could do with the deck and how we were going to put the mater bedroom down in the rec room that opens off onto the deck with sliding doors and how it was going to be SO TOTALLY AWESOME.

Yah, I’m upset. We thought this was our house.

It’s frustrating. FRUSTRATING, I tell you.

The town home is gorgeous – or at least it has the potential to be gorgeous. I’ve already asked my dad – who owns a flooring company – about the kind of floors that I’d like to have in it, and yet….then I stopped. I don’t want to dream too much. I don’t want to be disappointed. BLURGH! SUCKS! GHAAAAAGH!

So, we’ve got an offer in and we are waiting to hear back about the town home. I’m not upset that we would be living in the town home….it’s nice and big and spacious. I’m just upset at what we lost….the yard, the clothes, the garden, the fence, the climbing tree, the deck….oh the deck…

But, it’ll all work out. I believe that even if I am upset.

Oh well! Now we are off to try to clear our heads from all this garbage. I hope that it works……..

edited to clarify…They came back and said that they would accept our offer, but wanted an additional $2000 that we had set aside to fix the plumbing and to professionally deal with two HUGE trees that have giant branches hanging over both the house and over the neighbors house and that could be a liability if they broke or fell. We feel that if they are willing to dick around over something that we had already decided upon as acceptable then what’s to stop them from dickin’ around before finally signing off on it all.

$2000 crappy dollars we had already gone up $3000 and now they are asking fro an additional $2000….it’s just frustrating.

Okay…..Here’s Where We Are At…..

We have two different places that we are looking at and there are positives and negatives to both places.

On one hand we have a house. It’s 1800 sq ft…with a FREAKING HUGE YARD….there is a smallish deck off the kitchen (big enough for some chairs and a coffee table) with stairs that lead down to a HUGE house width deck and then miles (okay not quite miles) but a seriously HUGE back yard. It’s all fenced in and there is already a GIANT garden that needs to be weeded, filled with new dirt and then planted. We’d have the MOST AMAZING veggie garden next year. There is a huge tree in the back yard that would provide shade for the house and there is space to put our compost machine…in fact there is already a wood corner built in to put all the leaves that the tree dumps…can we say major work in the fall as they drop.

There is a huge tree in the front of the house and it makes it feel charming and private.

The house has been reno’d with new fake wood floor and painted all nice and neutral and we’d basically move in and enjoy. We would want to add our own touches here and there but it looks new for a 25 year old house. There is an issue with the plumbing in the kitchen and because this is an old house….all the rooms are separated. This is not a newer open concept house. It is still nice and we could be very happy there.

We’ve been working towards a different lifestyle over the past few years and this house would easily accommodate the “green” granola, crunchy, organic, whatever-you-want-to-call-it type of lifestyle….yah we’re working on becoming hippes…there I said it…now stop all the whispering. we’re urban hippies….does that even make any sense? I don’t even care cause that’s not the focus of this post.

Aside from the small master bedroom and a few issues, we do like this house it’s just not perfect.

Then, last night we went and looked at a 2600 sq ft townhouse. It is 13 years old and in original condition….old people lived there and so they’ve taken good care of it. There is no yard maintenance to do which would free some time up and we could focus that time on the kids. The Town house backs onto a central grassy area where the kids could go out and play. They would also be a 10 minute walk to school. The other house would be about 20 minute walk. and at the townhouse, they could come home after school and even if we weren’t there………..MY PARENTS LIVE IN THE COMPLEX ACROSS THE STREET….literally a 1 minute walk to their place.

So, my kids would be totally fine and if there were any issues….run over to grandma’s. They already have some friends in my parents complex and so that would be awesome.

The difference in price between the townhome and the house is $60,000. The townhome is $60,000 less than the house, BUT with taxes and the strata fee included, the monthly payment for the townhouse is actually about $40.00 more expensive than the house. BUT IT’S HUGE and we could decorate it the way we want it.

Seeing as the house has just been done, it would be a little bit stupid to rip all the new stuff out.

So, what do we do?

There are so many positives to both sides….and some negatives to both sides.

All of this might be taken out of our hands if the house won’t sell to us for our offering price…..But if it were to accept…then what do we do. Take the smaller house that has enough rooms for each kid to have their own room and a huge back yard, but the kitchen/dining room/living room is all segregated OR…..do we take the giant townhouse that has enough rooms for us, but two kids have to share but the room they’d be sharing is HUGE….as in bigger than the master bedroom…..AND…the house is an open concept floor plan…the kitchen, runs into the eating are which runs into the dining room which is open into the living room which open s back around again onto the kitchen….it’s amazing.

We could be so happy in both….

What would you choose and why?

Oh today…..

We just heard news that we didn’t get the house. I mean, there is sill the remote possibility that the accepted offer could fall through, but it’s unlikely and so we are now headed off on the wild adventure of searching for and offering on another house…or townhouse or something……who knows what the future holds in store for us.

I’m sitting outside on my deck in the shade and a GORGEOUS hot breeze is blowing and today is literally one of those perfect days. If you go and sit out in the sun, you stand a great chance of burning because the breeze will deceive you into thinking that you have a bit more time. Seeing as I am a MOLE-Y freak, I tend to embrace my inner Snow White and either stay in the shade or slather on the sunscreen.

I do try to get a bit of sun – ya know, with the imprtance of Vitamin D and all….

I don’t relish the actual looking for a house part, and definitely am not rockin’ the waiting after you put in an offer, but getting into my own place…that’s the part that I’m really looking forward to.

But today, I will relax. Possibly clean my house a tiny bit. Snuggle with the baby and hopefully plan the meals for this week. It helps so much when we know what’s happening for dinner instead of hitting 6pm and just then starting to think about it all.

And right now…I might just go and get another coffee and sit out here in the warm breeze. MMMmmmmm, so nice!