As I sit here and write this blog, I know I should be running around and packing while the kids are sleeping but I think I will leave it till the morning. I haven’t really been able to find a second to sit and type but thought I ought to update everybody.
I sold the house, sold the van and the golf and we’re off to Ottawa this Saturday.
Sounds like a nightmare to be dealing with all these details while planning a move across the country but things have sort of fallen into place over the last three weeks.
It all started when a nice young man named Chris Allen phoned my ad in the auto trader to enquire about our golf. He ended up buying our car and has since given it a great new home to go another 200,000kms hopefully. Chris Allen also just happens to work at the Park Royal Keg where Mark and I both started our careers with The Keg. It almost seems like it was meant to be. I had a number of other calls about the car but felt like my little green golf with all its sentimentality was meant to go to a fellow Kegger. I then broke the rule of selling a used car, never call the buyer after and ask how everything is but I just needed to know. So, I phoned Chris and heard back from him after his first road trip with his new car up to the Island to Tofino. Tofino, ironically is a place that Mark and I always wanted to go to but never did once we had the kids and it is the name of our new street in Kanata.
There have been lots of other welcoming coincidences along the way but I am way too tired to write about them tonight. In less than 72 hours our house will be bustling with movers and some great Starbucks friends who have kindly offered to help me clean. The kids will be swimming at the hotel having fun with Grandpa, oblivious to the amount of effort it requires to move (the kids that is, NOT Grandpa!) and we will be in our new home next week.
We are spending Wednesday and Thursday here in Langley with the hopes of saying goodbye to everyone and all the special places we have discovered over the last few years and would love to see everyone. My permanent webmail will remain the same baristamamma@gmail.com so please contact me if you’d like to connect with us before we fly out on Saturday morning. Of course, you can always reach me on my cell. Email me if you don’t have it. The primary email address most of you have lesnmark@shaw.ca will be disconnected on Wednesday so update me in your address book. And look for me on FACEBOOK if you'd like. Warning though, it's a bit of a time sucker and lots of fun.
It’s not goodbye yet...
Leslie
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ReplyDeleteYou won't have time to even read this before we see you, I am sure, but wanted you to know you are in our thoughts and prayers as you make your move to Ontario. What is a loss for your family and friends in BC is our gain in Ontario. The kids can't wait to get to know their cousins better. Clarke is even parading around in a too-too (?sp) just to keep up with Audrey. Maybe Hugh can show Noah how to get the crackers from off the top of the fridge when you come to Kingston.
Don't say goodbye to BC as you can always return there, but do get ready for a big HELLO to Ontario and especially GLSC. The dock is waiting for you!
I love you. Hugs to Audrey and Noah.
xo
Maria