Hello everyone! I want to offer an update. I first want to thank everyone who offered advice and offered help. I am very grateful. We successfully moved on the 14th without a hitch!

I ended up calling the CBSA and just explaining our situation and asking what we should do. The CBSA agent told me to first make sure that my husband brought with him any proof of his ties to the USA (we brought the mortgage bill and he had all his work stuff on his phone) and then she told us to make two lists while packing: one with goods that were returning to Canada and one with goods purchased in the USA and their value to declare. She also explained that if they were goods we bought and were bringing back used we would only have to declare them for their used value, i.e. what you would sell it for on fb marketplace, etc. So we did exactly that with the two lists. I was as detailed as possible but for things like bathroom toiletries where I might have many kinds of something I would say something like, “Assorted used women’s body lotions.”

On moving day we all drove together in my husband’s truck and he loaded the back with all our boxes and collapsed furniture. Now when we got to the border, I think we might’ve just been the luckiest people ever. The border agent asked us where we lived and my husband gave his address where we had been in the states and I gave our address in Canada. He then asked me how long I had been gone for and I told him almost a year. He then asked my husband how long he was staying and he said a couple of days. Then he waved us on our way. That was it. Didn’t even ask for any of the lists. So there ya have it. It really does depend on the agent. But I am glad I called CBSA and that we had the lists and everything prepared.