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Picking up speed
A lot has been happening in the last couple of weeks with the house! Here’s the skinny. Some wacky weather delayed our floor pour a smidgeon, but just enough to allow us to make some last minute decisions on where … Continue reading
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Good Friday Family Day
Since Easter is a chocolate holiday in our house, we chose to collect our children and at the crack of noon — because no matter how hard we try, we can’t seem to get all our ducks in a row … Continue reading
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The Porch is on!
They’re getting ready to pour the floor this week and there’s been a flurry of activity getting the plumbing on the main floor ready to go and the porch on. New pictures make the house look so different. I’m really … Continue reading
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So much progress. Where do I start?
Turn your back for a day or two and things really start taking off. The windows arrived a few days late and the first couple seemed to take an eternity to install while the builder worked out the hiccups. We … Continue reading
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Birthdays and Parallels
Shortly after my last post we celebrated Mary’s 13th Birthday. It’s a bit of a mind-bender for me to see her hitting the official teenager mark. In my mind she is still strapped to my back in an ergo carrier…snoring. … Continue reading
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And just like that, it looks like a house
Just a quick update because it’s pretty exciting to see a roof going on. Our house suddenly looks like a house and we’re anxiously awaiting the arrival of windows on Tuesday. The material picking continues with decisions on siding, roofing … Continue reading
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Pace
January and February of this year has been interesting. With both Basketball and Volleyball running in parallel, we require a level of coordination that means nearly every morning we have a meeting to confirm who is doing what, picking up … Continue reading
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We Have Walls!
Much progress has been made on the building front. Great news with the cold weather and then dump of snow threatening to slow things down significantly. In the end our builders, who seem to be relatively immune to the constraints … Continue reading
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Winter is coming. Uh…it’s here.
The first weeks of January have brought us some truly spectacularly cold weather combined with whistling winds, next level snow drifts and some lessons in survival (and how we would likely perish if we had to live for any period … Continue reading
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Happy New Year! Was that a week ago already?
Time certainly flies around here. Boxing Day was filled, as expected, with no work and all play. After lazing about for a good long while, indulging in the books, magazines and taking a stab at a new puzzle for me, … Continue reading
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