Now that things are final and I'm heading to pick up our keys today, I'm ready to share our news: we found a HOUSE to live in!
Yes, yes, I know what you're all thinking: did we
just move in December? -- Oui,
however, opportunity knocks and we've thrown the door
wide open.
A friend of ours let us know that her neighbour was looking for tenants so I went to look at the house, on a whim, and fell in love.
Reasons?
♥ It's a HOUSE and not a 2nd floor apartment
(with neighbours who chain smoke and smell up the hallway)♥ We'd have a backyard! The owner of the home has just put in gardens, and a bit of a walkway and the flowers are beautiful -- and oh, the
creeping jenny -- I swoon!
♥ Poppies! Sumac! Flowers which are pretty, yet nameless to me!
♥ The neighbour hood is in my favourite area of the city
♥ The street is so quiet & friendly
♥ One of my near and dears would be my next door neighbour
(tea dates!)♥ There's a huge park across the street with paths and the river
♥ The
Better Home Bakery is down the street and
oh my word -- baked goods are a
bit of a weakness
(to say the least)♥ Another fabulous friend
(the one who was at Gretchen's birth) lives but a few blocks away
♥ The school that Gretchen would go to is one that I went to at one point
♥ No noisy drunken bar traffic walking past our home at 3am
♥ I can hold yard sales
♥ No carpets -- all old hardwood
(well, there's some carpet on the stairs, but that's all)I could go on for hours!
Our official moving date
(aka the day the UHaul is being rented) is July 28th, however, I'm picking keys up today and we're being welcomed to move bit by bit if we'd like. The landlady is a really lovely woman who raised all of her children there and simply wants someone who will care for her house as she did.
She fell in love with Gretchen.
I fell in love with her home.
I am
ecstatic about living in a house for once! I haven't lived in an actual house since I lived with my mother -- it's always been apartments, or parts of houses with crummy neighbours.
More photos will be shared soon.
This house will be our home.A place to raise our daughter
(and possible future fawns).
A place to call our own
(even if we don't technically own it).
A haven, if you will.
And you're all invited for tea.
