January 10, 2010

Back from the holidays

What a crazy December! We bought a house in November, and made the slightly crazy decision for a closing date only a month later. It worked out very well, but it meant a very busy time.

Adjusting to a new house is always interesting, dealing with "new house noises ", and for us it's our first house, meaning we are also adjusting to new home ownership.

Some things are great, like not having to walk a kilometere (ok a bit less) from the car to the apartment door, having a dishwasher, being able to have a BBQ ( a big plus for me!!!). This is also in addition to benefit of having extra space.

The downsides at least so far are shoveling snow and the additional maintenance (though we haven't had to really do anything yet).

So far things are going well, adn we're settling in. It's fun now because we're buying a lot of furniture and getting everything sorted out. Imm looking forward to having nice solid book shelves.

I need some place to put all the boxes of booksI have lying around the house after all...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You are a brave man taking on home ownership. That's a committment I have never been able to bring myself to make. All the best.