Moving again

We bought a house! This time to live in rather than renovate and sell. It's in the Crescentwood neighborhood, our favourite area of the city. There is a community centre a block away with a skating rink in winter and a wading pool in the summer. There are also 3 daycares within walking distance and baby K is on all of their waiting lists already. (In the meantime, we have hired a nanny who will look after him full time at her house a 5 minute drive away.)

I'm very excited to finally live in our very own place. I've already started packing up. We'll be moved in by the end of February. I'm not excited about having to change my address everywhere again. Oh well, that just goes with the territory.

I will miss a number of things about our current apartment. I'll miss being so close to the riverwalk and the forks. I'll miss the pool, hot tub and sauna. I'll miss the mall downstairs and the fact that I can run down and buy milk or get a cup of coffee without going outside. I'll miss the underground parking and the garbage chute. I will also miss the fact that I never have to shovel or mow a lawn.

I won't miss the lack of visitor parking. I won't miss having to combine baby room and office (there are 3 bedrooms in the house). I won't miss having to wait for the elevator. I won't miss the lack of sunlight in our living room.

There will be some work that needs to be done on the place eventually. The kitchen needs to be gutted and redone, it's in pretty bad shape right now. All the windows need to be replaced. There's a teensy bit of work to be done to leak proof the basement. The basement will be finished later on. But we're not afraid of a little work, we're rather used to it by now!