Blue Bird Hutch: Farewells and beginnings...

I'm finally getting a chance to update my blog after more than 4 days of rest and after an emotional farewell at my work. So bare with me all if this blog is extra long as I have to catch up for almost a week's worth!

It's been a bit of a hassle to get this blog going, only because I don't have my own computer right now (had one, but then the boys sort of destroyed it when they learned how to walk), and I have to take all my pictures with my iphone (another long story which I won't get into), and the only way I can get them on to my Michael's computer is to email them to myself and then download them from my email. So please forgive the fuzzy and rough pictures...

I'll start with my farewell at work last Friday. My coworker Maria went out of her way to arrange a farewell for me at her desk, with delicious chocolate cake, and with wonderful food and of course some KPMG swag and gift cards for gifts.

My co-worker Ian, whom I worked with from way back in the good old days of Chartwell, made a lovely introduction speach for me, which I didn't expect him to do, and I certainly didn't expect him to elaborate on his speech and place me on a pedastal, which brought me to tears. It didn't help my emotional state much to look over at Maree, another one of my old Chartwell friends and to see her in tears.

I was so busy running around my last week of work trying to get both personal and work related things done before I left and saying goodbye to so many wonderful people, that it never really truly hit me that I would have to make a speech for such a large group of people until I was standing in front of a large group of people! I really didn't think that little old me would even attract such a goodbye crowd, but apparently I did make an impact on people and I was truly appreciated and loved, and of course I felt the same way about everyone at work who I've worked with.

One of the reasons on keeping this blog going is not only to document our big decision to move to Nova Scotia, but also to keep in touch with the many wonderful people I've met at KPMG as I promised I would do before I left.

It was a rather calm weekend, and Michael and I had many plans to do several things, such as buy groceries, and go pick up my glasses, (you know normal stuff, which with twins, normal stuff becomes a luxury if you can even get it done) but of course, it snowed like hell and it was cold as hell, and so we just got lazy and stayed in.

Bennie and Ollie were happy just to put their shoes on and prance around the house. Here they are in their highchairs with their shoes on. It's one of their favorite things to do.

Here are the boys again getting goofy with their shoes on and running around the house on Saturday...

Oliver striking a pose...

On to Sunday, it was a lazy day, and we found ourselves suddenly dying for a sugar rush and we were paying the price for not going grocery shopping because our cupboards were bare! We had cake mix though, so as tired as I was after I put the boys to bed, I decided to make cake.

Oliver with his daddy Sunday evening just before bed ...

The sugar rush cake!

By Monday, we had devoured half the cake, and I still had not done laundry, and it really needs to be done! As you can see

Ikes!!!!!!!! How am I going to get this all done!!!

So Monday came and went and we still hadn't heard anything back from our Real Estate agent regarding the house on Court street on which we had put an offer in on last week. We were starting to get impatient and anxious, and just kept on playing around with numbers in our heads to see if we could still afford to buy this house.

The house is a repo, it is going relatively cheaper then the listing price, almost half the price of what it was listed for originally, but we still don't know if we can make this work.

We heard back from one of the Bridgetown locals on the weekend who had told us that she was also thinking of originally purchasing the house on Queen street when she was moving to Bridgetown with her family and that it was a dump, and that Court Street was a nice street to live on as she lives on Court street herself with her family and loves it.

Finally Tuesday is here, and in between chasing busy toddlers around the house climbing up on everything, we finally heard back from our real estate agent. Turns our the real estate agent who has the listing on Court street hasn't listed it yet, but placed her sign up on the yard, so it created a bit of a hassle for everyone. The Vendors won't get back to us on our offer, or any offers until the listing is legally listed. So we still have to wait! Arghhhh!! But anyways, that's ok. We know that during this whole process that we have to patient. Buying a house is not an easy task, especially when you're 2000 miles away from where you want to buy the house! Our Real Estate agent told us however, that we should expect a counter offer once our offer goes through, but that the house should come back at a really reasonable price, however, the price of the house would still be slightly over the budget of what we can afford, but we remain positive.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to come up with another $10,000.00 dollars for a home in the next couple of weeks?

Bennie and Ollie climbing up on the chair and playing the piano, cute, but not safe! A quick click with my iphone and off they went...

If people ever wonder why I'm so busy, here's toddler #2, our Big Ben as we affectionately call him, who climbed up on the couch we strategically placed against the wall so he wouldn't climb on it!