We (In A New) Home!
We moved!
For five years, Jess and I called Pickering home, in our condo, on the fourth floor. It’s the first home we shared together. The place we brought Ollie home to from the hospital, making it his first home for more than three years to start his life.
And now it’s our former home.
Now, just a few weeks ago, we moved to Oshawa, on a quiet residential street, and we’re making a new home for ourselves and each other.
We live on the main floor, with two bedrooms, an office, kitchen, bathroom, little dining room, living room with an adorable gas fireplace in the corner and laundry in a little closet too.
AND we have a deck and backyard!
Note: We also have downstairs neighbours, a family of three around the same age as us, including a 3-year-old little boy (with some cool toys in the front yard) who Ollie loves to play with whenever he can.
This is the part where I tell you how great and important and impressive Jess was in this process. From working with the realtor (thanks Bobby Oates!) to look at houses and find this one. To going to the actual showings while I was working at home on larger assignments than I’ve had in years, to taking the lead on packing and booking the movers – she crushed it and deserves so much credit.
And the movers she picked, those guys were great. They showed up on Moving Day, took the boxes, disassembled the furniture as needed and packed it all up in a trailer and moved it from the condo to the house. They brought everything in, asked where it needed to go, put beds back together, and they were clean and kind every step of the way.
It’s been just over three weeks since the move, and already things are starting to feel like our home.
We can walk out the back door to the deck.
Ollie can go play in our postage stamp sized lawn.
We have a garden to grow veggies in next summer.
We have a garden and space for flowers and pumpkins in 2022.
We have a garage to store the stuff we haven’t sorted or placed or pitched yet.
We have a little BBQ (thanks mom) that we use to cook dinner as often as possible.
We’re home!
There are still days when Ollie asks to go back to the condo, the only home he ever knew before this.
There are times when I miss seeing the neighbours that I said hello to almost daily.
There are times when I bump into walls in the dark or reach for a light switch in the wrong place on the wall.
But we’re getting there and I like it.
I’m a lucky guy. I have a cute, loving, happy family. And we have a home, that we will continue to grow into and love and make memories in.
