2 hours to possession Keys, keys, keys, keys. Give me the keys. Agent Awesome has been Agent AWOL today and I didn’t know for ages when, where and how we’d get our needy paws on the keys. How do adoptive parents of real babies, ugly or otherwise, possibly hold up on handover day? The waiting [...]
Day: T minus 1 – Ready to roll Tomorrow’s the day. Key Day. When the clock strikes 12, we’re meeting Agent Awesome at the front door to our new casa. The gateway to ugly baby-dom. The, um, birthing canal. And I’ve done my homework. I know expectant mothers are meant to keep a packed bag by [...]
(9 days to possession) We’ve been packing for some time now. Just a little every day… 20 minutes after dinner to avoid doing the dishes. A little more on a weekend morning – coffee in one hand, tape gun in the other. It’s amazing how much our wall of boxed “stuff” is growing, while we continue [...]
15 days ‘til our lives change forever. ‘Til we start to amass more tools, gadgets and accessories than we ever realized existed. Two weeks ‘til we’re not just responsible for ourselves anymore – and we have an ugly baby. 15 days ‘til we get the keys. I can barely stand the waiting. I tried (and failed) [...]
30 days to possession By Sunday, I was done with celebrating. We have responsibilities now and it was time to give the (the!) ugly baby our full attention. Paolo lost me. I googled “free floorplanner”, found exactly that – and I was gone. Full focus? Floorplanner. The ugly baby can be anything we want it to [...]
31 days to possession It’s the nervous laugh that comes when it shouldn’t: in trying times and difficult situations, when your best friend tells you he/she’s been dumped. Your first instinct is to laugh. Since winning the ugly baby, Paolo and I have been grinning like fools and laughing out loud. Oh holy mother of [...]
35 days until we get the keys. Give them to me. Until then, expect a Bridget-gets-her-ass-in-gear montage of being very, very busy. (We end up with a scary apartment and she gets Mr. Darcy. Fair? Hardly). If apartment closing starts now, and keys appear then… what’s to do in the mean time? Oh, just a few [...]
