Yesterday was the official first day of owning our new home, so to break it in, we popped champagne with our Chicago family – and broke some bubbly, too. Not long after our closing day, Scott suggested that we smash a bottle of champagne to christen the house for good luck; à la Kate Middleton, naturally. […]
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Visiting the New Home
First! You all know by now that this is the last week for Google Reader (boo!). If you’ve slacked on the whole switcheroo (you know, like us), now’s the time to import your favorite blogs. We switched to Bloglovin‘, but The Old Reader and Feedly are hot stuff, too. (Add us to your Bloglovin’ here, […]
And… Closed.
After 2 hours of paper after paper, signature after signature – and several questions sprinkled in for good measure – we’re now the owners of a two-flat conversion in our favorite Chicago ‘hood. (What!) As you can imagine, it was slightly comical when the previous owner passed the torch – 2 pounds of keys, ha! […]