An Incredible Few Days

Well, the past few days have been exciting, and we’re still trying to catch our breath over the exhileration. Christine and I made a conditional offer that was accepted on a house in Timmins on Thursday. This is our first home, and much like the birth of our first child, it’s a special event.

The house is a three-bedroom, four-level backsplit (whatever that means) in the Mount Joy area of Timmins, which is one of the preferred neighbourhoods. The house meets our needs perfectly - it is about 1,800 or so square feet with a mostly finished basement. The part of the basement that is finished is extremely big and bright, and has the feel of a living room rather than a basement. We would have hoped for a bigger backyard, but you can’t have everything.

We don’t have a moving date as of yet. Truth be told, we settled on Timmins as a place to live because job prospects look really good for Christine, with every nursing agency including the hospital crying out for RNs. I have a few irons in the fire as well. We wanted to buy now before the market heats up in the spring which would mean paying more. We ended up winning a bidding war for our house, feeling strongly that this house is the one for us.

Christine is going back to work from Mat leave on April 2, and I am hoping to job share my Northern College teaching job with someone in order to stay home with Jonas when Christine has to work. That is our plan as of right now.