Packin’ and Snackin’

Well the big move is coming up. This weekend, I decided, is going to be catch up on packing day. If I pack something we need in the coming months, we’ll have to beg it from friends or go without. We have our new place in Strathmore for the first of May which gave us a lot of flexibility for moving dates so we’ll hopefully have our stuff arriving on (or around) the 27th of May.
I cleaned behind the fridge today. It wasn’t for the faint of heart, i tell you. On the plus side I found several long lost magnets and hair accessories, they were glued down by dried spillage so they couldn’t get far. At first I thought, I’ll have friends over near the end and they can help me clean some of these places. On Second thought I decided that it was best to hide my shame, so I’m cleaning these things now and saving the painting and patching-of-holes for my friends to help with. Aren’t I a nice friend?
The weather has smartened up around here and the kids have been out everyday and evening riding their bikes with friends, it so nice for the kids and myself that it’s going to make leaving here that much harder.
I’ve been taking photos of the kids and have MANY that I haven’t posted online yet but check out the flickr goodness (link in the sidebar) if you haven’t, lots of new stuff there and much more new stuff to come!
This is where I should go back to bed, but if you want our new mailing address and my new ‘forever’ email address, please leave a comment and I’ll pass along the info.
I’ll try to update soon- with photos!

~jen

Get the word out, please help.

As you may have read in some of my previous posts we are currently going through a leaky condo crisis.  This is an epidemic where I live in Coastal British Columbia.  So far the assistance has been weak and fraught with threat of legal action at every turn.  As far as I see it, we are being treated like criminals when our only fault is having purchased (unknowingly!!) a leaky condo.

We are currently on the hook for nearly 150,000$ in repairs and some of that is being asked of us in CASH by July first or else the Contractors and engineers have said they will walk off the job (that is only 20% completed).  Home owner Protection office (providing us with the interest free loan) has put us in this jam by refusing to pay for part of the costs.  When this all started HPO promised that no one would lose their homes over this fiasco- but it looks like people may have no choice, over less than 10,000$.  Please help me find the fairness in that- or better yet- Send this letter!  It’s in word format PDF format so you will need Adobe acrobat reader (free download if you don’t already have it) so please print it off in triplicate, add your signature, and address the bottom of the letters and send it off (these letters only count if your address is on it!).

Download form_letter.pdf

If you are a Canadian citizen and you care to help, please send the letters to the Prime Minister and the other addresses listed in the letter.  No postage is neccessary if mailed within Canada.  Letters make much more of an impact than emails so every one sent means so much to us!

Let me thank everyone in advance

Jennifer & Ken McEachern