No Summer move for us. Summer vacation plans here I come. Wohoo!!!! What a ride, we are feeling pretty good about the process though. Sure learned a lot.

On Saturday we decided to back out of our contract for the condo. After the inspection we found a few problems that we were unaware of when we made our offer and we felt that the price was no longer fair. After discussing it with Jim and Jayne (current ancestral home owners) we decided we'd need to do about $20,000 of work to be able to use the space as we'd originally envisiioned. We told our agent yesterday (Sunday) that we'd still be interested in the property if the seller would drop her price by that much. We expected to be turned down cold but... we still haven't heard back!!! So, still playing the waiting game. If it is meant to be ours it will happen, that is still my feeling, same as when we started this insane journey.

Condo purchase update:
Natasha has brought it to my attention that I've left you in suspense long enough. The counter-counter offer was accepted! We are on to phase two of the adventure which is to have the building inspected. Since we are talking about a 125 year old building we think it is pretty important to have it carefully looked over before we make our final decision to buy. I'm completely freaked out by the amount of work that is loming over our head if this all goes through as planned. We've got to get this place sell ready, pack up 8 years worth of stuff and move it 2 blocks away!!! Seems like an aweful lot of effort but I know it will be worth it in the end.

There is waayyy too much going on in our world right now to even begin to consider trying to catch up with my blog. I've got pictures of the following recent activities to share and hopefully I'll managed to get it done now that I've gone ahead and written down my intention...

• Camping at Mont Tremblant
• Leo's spectacle and graduation from Carrefour des Petites Soleils
• Carrefour picnic
• Imagine exhibit at le Musée des Beaux-Arts
  

Right now Chloé and Zaco are staying with us, Karen and Mike had an out of town family funeral to attend so I picked up the kids after school. They are very happy to be together (well, the girls certainly are) and other than the increased food consumption and overall volume, the weekend is pretty much playing out as any would with half the number of little boys and girls.

Oh and yeah, we made an offer on a new condo last night. The agent thought is was lots of fun making life changing decisions sitting just meters away from 4 kids who were eating pizza and watching Space Buddies.