Moving & House Tours
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In our first fifteen years of marriage we lived in two countries, three different states/provinces, and eight homes. (And there's the house we bought but never lived in.) Alberta, New Jersey, Maine.
Our last house during this time, the home we bought we Maine, we lived in for six years. After Maine we had a four year season of moving, moving, and moving some more; two provinces, five houses, and a six month hike on the Appalachian Trail. Nova Scotia, Quebec, the Eastern United States.
In twenty five years of marriage we've lived in fourteen houses, but I've had the same email address since forever! After a record 6 years in Montreal, in our 3 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, we are planning our next move, which won't be for a few years yet since the kids are still in post-secondary and I've started my own graduate program in the city.
These are the "stories" of the houses we've lived in, and our many moves from one to the next, since I started this blog.
The photo you see here is my parents' home in Nova Scotia which will be our family home in the coming years.
If you enjoy stories of house and home you will probably appreciate the Finding Home Podcast series. Learn more here.
- Finding Home ~ The conclusion - Sailing the boat of our family life into the security of parent's port.
- It all started with a move - Analyzing my own migrations, to interrogate the source of the “where is home?” question I have been asking myself for nearly 25 years.
- The News from Nova Scotia - We're moving again... but not for a few years.
- Patreon Podcast Season 2: Finding Home - Finding Home is a series of interviews with people about one of the most central aspects of being human: making a home.
- Our apartment bedrooms, work space, and storage - Our bedrooms are rooms for sleeping, studio and desk space, and storage.
- Our apartment living and dining room - You don't need a ton of space to make it "good", you need love, respect, kindness and maybe a few beanbags.
- Our apartment kitchen, bathroom, and laundry - A tour of our Montreal apartment, starting with where we cook, groom, and wash.
- Our Montreal Apartment - Deciding what size of house and where to live comes down to the weighing of two factors: what you get and what you give.
- Summer Stories ~ Moving and Making Home - The first photos of moving, organizing and making home in our apartment in Montreal.
- A garden to be - Our yard space, front and back, are just the right size for how we want to spend our time at this stage of family life; enough space for me to grow lots of beauty, but not too much space that we have to spend a lot of time maintaining.
- The moving report - After all this moving everything that's left in our life has a place and purpose in our life, and I'm excited to start our life in Montreal with this clean slate.
- Moving to Montreal - It's another adventure, but it's an adventure where security is as important as freedom.
- Wherever you are, be there (and dream about where you want to be next) - Our ski hill home, where we are living one dream while preparing for another.
- We're Goin' to the Country - Out of all the places we've lived in our married life, this home and location is the most charming.
- Where I live ~ Our Mountain Home - A bird's eye view of the mountain where we live.
- A Peek into My Kitchen - I am very appreciative for this beautiful workspace.
- Making an Uneasy Peace with Process - Living in an unfinished house isn't really that big of deal in the grand scheme of life, just difficult in the present.
- Our Montreal Digs - The apartment we rented for the month we lived in Montreal (a couple years before we actually moved to Montreal).
- Exercise While You Work & Life is Hard (but oh so beautiful too) - At the foot of our bed is Damien's treadmill desk (and why I find it hard to publicly share difficult situations, and it's necessarily because of pride).
- Does This Mean We're Minimalists? ~ A Tour of Our Chalet - Living in a small home in a beautiful place - adventuring, learning, working, creating together - that's the goal.
- Through The Looking Glass - Enjoying our very last days in my parents' home before our move to Quebec.
- Three Kids One Bedroom (not littles either) ~ How We Do It - How our three kids share one bedroom while living with my parents in Nova Scotia.
- Our New Digs ~ Kitchen, Dining and Living Room - That I get to live here for the next four months - in this gorgeous house, next to a beautiful river, surrounded by nature, hanging out each day with my mom - is well... awesome.
- Creating An Urban Oasis - Whereas Damien did most of the renovations inside, with help at times from my Dad, I have been largely responsible for the transformation of our yard and garden space.
- A Room For Living - Our living room is truly where we live.
- House Renovations Tour ~ The Bedrooms - What we loved when we bought this house was the original wood, all the bedrooms walls needed was some TLC to give the rooms the look and feel we wanted.
- Improvements to Our "Water Closet" - We didn't buy our house because of its bathroom but there are certain features about it we like.
- The Door That Damien Built ~ A Change in Housing Priorities - Realizing that you only get to raise kids once we decided to invest more in building family than renovating a house.
- Papa Builds a House ~ Nana Makes a Home - My parents make a great team as they build a home for their family.
