Tag Archives: Moving

As first time home buyers at the age of 25, my husband and I had a pretty specific list of “Must-Haves.” MUST HAVE 2 bathrooms! MUST HAVE great kitchen. MUST HAVE a good porch for having company over, MUST HAVE a beautiful lawn for our future children to learn to walk on. MUST HAVE space for a play room. MUST ... Read More »

I must not be the only blogger who struggles with this, but here it is: When I get into a busy period of life, such as moving / Christmas / everyone-in-the-family-gets-sick-one-after-the-other, I tend not to blog it. “Who wants to read about THAT?” I think.  The longer I don’t post, the harder it is to go back and post something. ... Read More »

The last 6 months has been a little ‘up in the air’ for our family. Every decision that we made, starting in November, was made with the preface, “If Brian gets into grad school…” If Brian gets into grad school, we’re going to have to move or store any of these Christmas presents that we buy for the kids… do we really want ... Read More »

When we first realized back in December that selling our house was a very likely possibility, I knew that our house was going to have to be cleared out. When staging a house, shelves, closets, and cupboards should only be 1/4-1/3 full. In other words, they have to be REALLY EMPTY. For at least the last year I’ve been unhappy ... Read More »

As our first house goes on the market 6 years after we first purchased it, I find myself getting nostalgic about our first days of House Hunting. We were just looking for a house that we could afford, but we never dreamt that we’d find a house that wouldn’t cost us anything! As a young, fairly newly married couple who each came ... Read More »

I have GREAT news, but it’s news that has turned our life upside down. My husband – Breadwinner Extraordinaire in our house – has been accepted to a fantastic Masters program at the University of Toronto starting in September. It’s a 16 month full-time program, so he’ll be doing a little bit of moonlighting, but the majority of our income ... Read More »