Long Overdue Update

It has been far too long since I've posted an update here but it has been a crazy few months for us. Wesley is super active right now and if I'm not right beside him all the time then he is sure to do some serious damage to himself, Darcy or the house. So, sitting down to write a blog post isn't a luxury I have very often. He's sleeping right now so I'm going to try to get one done.

Our house is finally sold. I say "finally" but by Windsor's standards, being on the market for 2 1/2 months isn't all that bad. We were still panicking wondering what to do, because Nick was supposed to start his new job on April 14th but it has all worked out now. His new office was really understanding and gave us an extension until the end of June, instead of requiring him to come without the rest of the family. We were very thankful for that.

It's pretty interesting how it all turned out. If we had sold the house as scheduled, the day we probably would have moved would have been April 10th. Unfortunately, that ended up being the day of Nick's Grandpa's funeral. It would have been very difficult for us to manage the move and the funeral at the same time. However, we got an email on the morning of the funeral saying that someone was seriously considering making an offer on the house. They made the offer on the 12th. You've heard it said that the Lord works in mysterious ways. No kidding. We really experienced that here.

So we had gotten ourselves used to the idea that we would be in Windsor until the end of June. When the offer came, though, the buyers asked for a closing date of May 14th. A little over a month. We wanted to do as little as possible to rock the boat so we accepted that closing date even though it put us in a real time crunch.

We should have left right away for a house hunting trip but Nick was already scheduled to be in Toronto this week for training for the new job. So now the move is 3 weeks away and we still don't have a house to go to. Nick will return from Toronto this evening and then he and I leave for Ottawa on Wednesday to try to get us somewhere to live. Many thanks to my parents who are coming here to watch the kids so we don't have to disrupt their schedules too much and so we can really focus our attention on the house hunt. The market in Ottawa is completely different from the market in Windsor so we know we will have to act fast and offer wisely when we find a house we like. We still might end up in a hotel for a couple of weeks if we can't get an immediate closing date but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

So there you are. If there are still any of you checking this, that's our current update. Hopefully I'll be able to post soon saying that we've got somewhere new to live!