SOLD!

It has been a flurry of activity around here, as usual. In addition to the normal craziness of Jim traveling around the continent, I have been on camping trip to Sandbanks with 44 ten-year olds, we have had a big garage sale in Port Hope, I've had my eyes lasered, and we have sold the house...twice! The first time fell through because of financing in a matter of days, but hopefully this second offer will stick as it is only conditional on the house inspection. Never a dull moment! (You can see below how the boys feel about all this.)

Do you recognize this house?

    

   

We have been busy clearing the "clutter" of our house in order to get it on the market for next week.  Our agents open house is scheduled for next Tuesday and then we are officially looking for buyers.  After a weekend of tidying, cleaning and filling our garage to the rafters, we finally were ready for the photo shoot.  We arrived home to find a new table in the living room,  a few new pieces of art throughout the house and the ugliest dog/bear sitting on a bench on our porch.  Let's hope the pictures make the house look amazing so that we have bidders lining up ready to offer us much more than our asking price.  Here are a few pics (not the professional ones).  We've never had the house looking so clean...it didn't quite feel the same when we walked through the door after work today.  Perhaps this will ease our transition as where we live goes from feeling like a home to simply a house.

Labour Days

 

Although we considered going to the cottage for this long weekend, we felt our time would be better spent organizing for our house to go on the market this month and getting ready for the first day of school (Wednesday!).  Labour day weekend took on new meaning as we hauled books, garbage, toys, and the many other things that we have accumulated over the past eight years to new locations...mainly the garage.  We have identified a plethora of items to be sold in a massive garage sale to be held in Port Hope some weekend soon (stay tuned for news on our incredible profits from that sale!).  Morgan and Quinn were very helpful when the time called for it, and loved the breaks we took when we walked up and down the College Street festival to test out all of the bouncy houses.  They really are best friends and thoroughly enjoyed our time this weekend playing together, watching a parade on Queen St. catching bags of chips, and peeking out from the shower.  Whether we are working at home or relaxing at the cottage, it is just nice to be together.