Head Tale - Family

Category Archives: Family

Merry Christmas (Eve)!

If it looks like we have a lot of gifts under the tree, you have to remember that in the month of December, I basically wrap anything I would’ve bought anyhow – dish soap, shampoo, the empty box for the slippers I bought because I needed them in September – and use those things to […]

¶ Posted 24 December 2019 § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, xmas

Music Monday – “We could leave the Christmas lights up till January/This is our place, we make the rules/And there’s a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you dear/Have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?”

“Lover” – Taylor Swift

¶ Posted 23 December 2019 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) °

An Extra Emotional Day in “Hammond Housing”-Related News

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 […]

¶ Posted 22 December 2019 § MemoryLane § News § Randomness § Sad § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, economics, xmas

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 § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, music, xmas

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 § 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 § Jobs § List § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

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 § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

Sold!

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

Some Thoughts On Buying And Selling Houses in December

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 […]

¶ Posted 10 December 2019 § Canada § Jobs § Saskatchewan § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, xmas

Music Monday – “Christmas Eve will find me/Where the love light gleams/I’ll be home for Christmas/If only in my dreams”

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 […]