Friday turned into an even more emotional housing-news related day then we expected. In addition to being the possession day of our old house for the new owners, we heard that the condo complex where we lived for a couple years during our time in Calgary was engulfed in flames displacing numerous residents only a […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Shea and I made the offer on our new house on October 5 and took possession on November 22. For a variety of reasons, we were in a fortunate position where we didn’t have to make the purchase conditional on the sale of our old house and, in fact, we were fully prepared to float […]
I can’t believe I’ve never posted this song before – one of the most absolutely beautiful, heart-wrenching Christmas songs of all-time. And so appropriate these days too. We’re extremely excited for our first Christmas in our new house of course. But it also comes with mixed emotions knowing that a decision we made only two […]
Moving day is done, lots of unpacking still to do but the new house is starting to come together! (Hard to believe those two black couches are ones we bought from The Brick over fifteen years ago when we lived in Calgary. They’re still in great shape to this day!)
There are a zillion different moving guides online with all sorts of tips, tricks and reminders. But honestly, for our move, I found that using an online To Do manager with different lists for things like “Timeline”, “To Buy”, “To Pack”, “To Fix – Old House”, “To Fix – New House”, “Contact Info”, etc. (but […]
