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Five Things We Think We’ll Love In Our New House

Following up on yesterday’s list of things we’ll miss when we leave our current house, here’s a few things we think we’ll love in our new house… Attached Garage Yesterday, I wrote about how we stupidly wanted to make sure we had a garage when we bought this house but ended up buying a house […]

Posted 27 November 2019 § List ‡ Comments (0) °

Five Things We’ll Miss About Our House

Our realtor had a photographer come to our old/current house today to take photos in preparation for our house being listed later this week and it brought home, perhaps more than any other step, that soon, the house we’ve called a home for fifteen years will likely soon no longer be ours. As excited as […]

Posted 26 November 2019 § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Sad § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Ah, home, let me come home/Home is wherever I’m with you”

I think I’ve probably posted this old viral video before but as we prep to move into our new house, it felt appropriate for a few reasons – the title “Home” obviously but also for how it reminds me of Sasha who’s increasingly into music and has taken to making up her own songs to […]

Posted 25 November 2019 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

10 Things We’ve Done To Make The Move To Our New House As Stress-free As Possible

We moved to a newer part of the same community we’ve lived in for fifteen years.  In fact, our new house is only about ten blocks from our current house (and shorter as the crow flies)! Because of this, the kids won’t have to change schools (a major consideration in our decision.) Not only that […]

Posted 24 November 2019 § List § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – A Toast To Our New House

Posted 23 November 2019 § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – So…What’d You Do Today?

Nothing much, just bought a house! 😉 (Er, obviously this is a story months and really, years, in the making but I’m sure I’ll get to the full story soon.  For now, I’m heading to bed after a *very* long day!)

Posted 22 November 2019 § FridayFunLink § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

RIP John Mann (1964-2019)

It was a long, inevitable farewell. After announcing his Early Onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2014, John Mann, lead singer and frontman of the seminal 90’s Canadiana band, Spirit of the West, embarked on a farewell tour with the band in 2014. Shea and I got to see this show and it reminded me of why, […]

Posted 20 November 2019 § Canada § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sad § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – New Couches (March 2010)

Shea and I still have the cheap couches we bought at The Brick nearly a decade ago.  They’re now ripped, stained and worn so we decided to take advantage of the Retirement Sale at local furniture institution, Alford’s, to buy some new furniture. It won’t arrive until early December and we’re excited to (finally) get […]

Posted 14 November 2019 § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Our house, was our castle and our keep/Our house, in the middle of our street/Our house, that was where we used to sleep”

“Our House” – Madness  

Posted 04 November 2019 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Secular Sunday – How To Raise An Atheist Family

 

Posted 03 November 2019 § Censorship § Pace § Sasha § SecularSunday § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,