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Monthly Archives December 2019

Saturday Snap – Daddy-Daughter Night

Shea had a very long day and Pace is both pretty introverted and a stereotypical teenager so it’s hard to get him out of the house at the best of times. That meant Sasha and I had a daddy-daughter date to The Artesian’s “Holiday Sing-a-long” Thursday night which was great fun.

Posted 21 December 2019 § Family § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – 99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About In 2019

Things aren’t so bad.

Posted 20 December 2019 § FridayFunLink § List § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – A List of Projects (Dec 2004-Dec 2019)

I’ve made reference in past posts to some of the upgrades and renovations we’ve done at our house over the past 15 years (and when I say “we”, I’m seriously indebted to Shea’s parents and my parents who helped many of these projects happen saving us *thousands* in labour costs if we’d had to hire […]

Posted 19 December 2019 § List § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Good-bye House!

Possession day for our old house is Friday so Shea and I spent a few hours tonight making sure we had completely cleared it out of all our stuff, did a final bit of cleaning, and having a few tears as we locked the door for the final time. I’m usually pretty sentimental about stuff […]

Posted 18 December 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Sad ‡ Comments (0) °

Five Reasons We Were Able To Sell Our House So Quickly

The deal is done, the papers signed at the lawyer, the only thing left to do to complete the selling of our old home and finalize the transition to our new home is to hand over the keys on Friday (okay, the realtors do that.) Anyhow, beyond the very obvious single answer that “There was […]

Posted 17 December 2019 § Family § Jobs § List § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “It’s bitterly cold with three feet of snow/And this wouldn’t be home If the wind didn’t blow”

“Just Me and the Ponies (For Christmas This Year)” – Corb Lund

Posted 16 December 2019 § MusicMonday § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Elfis?

Last year, we gave in and bought a stupid Dollar Store “Elf on a Shelf” rip-off to move around every night for Sasha. Turned out it was actually kind of fun coming up with scenarios and jokes for the little guy and I might’ve got more enjoyment out of it than she did! This year, […]

Posted 14 December 2019 § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Randomness § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – My New Christmas Movie Tradition?

I was in the habit of watching *Love Actually” every December but last year I didn’t get to it and instead I watched this which has nothing to do with Christmas but, since I watched it right before Christmas, still managed to feel like a Christmas movie if that makes sense?  

Posted 13 December 2019 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – First Glimpse of Our New House (September 2019)

For the last few years, Shea and I have been occasionally “kicking the tires” on houses that caught our eye.  We were looking for something a bit bigger, something a bit newer, something a bit more fully featured than the 1977 starter home we bought fifteen years ago. When we went to see another house […]

Posted 12 December 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

Sold!

Posted 11 December 2019 § Family § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: