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Jun. 10th, 2014 08:39 amI was talking to my best friend in Moncton last evening and asked her to be matron of honour. She's fizzing with excitement and we did a bit of dress browsing online together. Isn't the internet wonderful? She was telling me that she was supposed to be in Edmonton last week for her step-daughter's university graduation. Her husband went but she wasn't able to get time off work though her boss had previously said she would. Turned out that she was home during the gunman hunt there last week when she would have been away and worried sick that her two teenage sons were home alone during the time when the man was running around armed, evading police capture. It didn't happen in a neighbourhood too near hers but it's a small city. Funny how things work out.
I got an email from another best friend who'd moved to Toronto late last year. Her mother has been trying to sell her house so she could move up with her and take care of her son when she has to be away for work. Her mother has had the boy here in NS while her house has been for sale since last fall. Meanwhile, my friend's ex has been giving her grief and trying to get full custody. The family court judge didn't agree so he appealed it, making her go through it all again. In the end, the original decision was upheld and her mother's house was sold just before the last court date so they could tell the judge that the plans were in motion. They'll move up to Ontario over the summer, with her lad spending two weeks with is dad before he goes. My friend still has to sell her own house or rent it, too, but the neighbourhood it's in is not perceived as the best area of town. The piece of property is quite large and it's across the street from a school so it does have advantages, and it isn't going to be an expensive house. I thought about renting it myself but the disadvantages are that the snow has to be shovelled and that puts me off. I could manage a lawn mower in summer but not the snow in winter.
( 2014 books )
I got an email from another best friend who'd moved to Toronto late last year. Her mother has been trying to sell her house so she could move up with her and take care of her son when she has to be away for work. Her mother has had the boy here in NS while her house has been for sale since last fall. Meanwhile, my friend's ex has been giving her grief and trying to get full custody. The family court judge didn't agree so he appealed it, making her go through it all again. In the end, the original decision was upheld and her mother's house was sold just before the last court date so they could tell the judge that the plans were in motion. They'll move up to Ontario over the summer, with her lad spending two weeks with is dad before he goes. My friend still has to sell her own house or rent it, too, but the neighbourhood it's in is not perceived as the best area of town. The piece of property is quite large and it's across the street from a school so it does have advantages, and it isn't going to be an expensive house. I thought about renting it myself but the disadvantages are that the snow has to be shovelled and that puts me off. I could manage a lawn mower in summer but not the snow in winter.
( 2014 books )
