Silence on the blog front typically means that all is well and there’s nothing much to report. But sometimes it doesn’t mean that. In this instance my lack of posts has been due to a preoccupation of a more stressful nature. It would seem that our renters back home have fallen through. The past month’s…
Month: September 2016
Cause for celebration
Today provided two reasons for celebrating. Perhaps the most exciting was the arrival of a care package from home sent a mere 6 weeks ago. This package was overflowing with goodness and delight. Unlike the last package we were anticipating, this one arrived without the need for strong negotiations, begging, pleading or the promise of…
Spoke too soon…
If I could harness my power of contradiction, I might be able to channel some riches into our life. Time and again after opining about something I’ve observed here, the opposite presents itself the very next day. That is why I will never again claim that my children are well behaved, loving, sweet beings. It…
Fall is in the air.
Thankfully, in contrast to my gastronomic problem shared yesterday, there is Friday, with the market it brings, overflowing with produce of every variety imaginable. You know what isn’t in the air? Halloween! No sign of Halloween decor or candy anywhere. Fall is allowed to be Fall, and nothing more. It is refreshing. I would admit…
Not hungry
I have not felt the sensation of being hungry since the day in July when we hiked into that town that was having its afternoon nap. That is because I CANNOT. STOP. EATING. I seem to have lost the inner signal that sends a message to the brain when it is appropriate, or not appropriate…
Balance
I am amazed by how life constantly presents balance. A little bit of good to balance out the tough bits. And the odd rough go to make sure that constant goodness doesn’t go unappreciated. Kind of like how a rainy days makes us appreciate the sunny ones. If there was no rain, we wouldn’t know…
Made it to another Friday
We’ve survived another week, albeit a little bruised, battered and bitten. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right? I guess it’s true. We are getting stronger through facing these varied challenges. I know my determination to confront and stop Helena’s bully has sure grown in strength. At the same time, the knowledge that our…
A new week, a new set of challenges
Happy to report that we survived the early morning hockey. It really wasn’t that bad. Considering thousands of Canadian kids, including my nephews, have been doing this for years, it really is a right of passage to being a hockey family. We’ve had it easy up until now. (Mind you some would say our out-door…
Life’s ordinary rhythm
The pace of our first week of school has thankfully improved dramatically. That first week lasted a year – it was painful and felt as though there was no way it was sustainable. But now the week’s tick along at a great pace. Or at least they did…this week we start 6:00am hockey practice on…
We’re part of a community
Something amazing is happening here…children from our apartment complex are ringing our doorbell to invite our children to play. And they’re going!!! It is lovely and awkward all at the same time. They can’t speak to each other so it is essentially parallel play but it is sweet and affirming and warms my heart so…
One more step towards real life
This week we took another big step towards settling in to a regular routine. Hockey! Wednesday afternoon we headed over to the one ice rink in town to join in on the practice. There’s a fair sized hockey community here, enough for 2 tiers of players at each age group. Any thought of bringing a…
2 month mark
Two months today since we set out to the airport with our carefully packed, heavy laden suitcases and anxious anticipation of what would await us on the other side. Thinking back to the moment of arriving at the airport in Zurich, greeted so warmly by all our family here, feels like a lifetime ago. In…
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