Big Changes

It has been a long while since I've written.  I've missed it.  Everything has been unbelievably busy both in my thoughts and in my environment.  My family and I took a road trip to Victoria, British Columbia last week.  We left Wednesday after school and hit the open road.  The kids travel well at their ages.  We are the proud owners of a mini van with no dvd player.  We don't have any mp3 players or personal electronic devices.  We have a cd player, each other, and windows all around us to enjoy the view. 



Beautiful, isn't it? (except for the big crack in the windshield - gulp.).   You see, G and I have always talked about moving out of the province of Alberta.  Experiencing a different part of Canada.  Last summer while on a road trip to the Okanagan we talked and talked and talked about our dreams, our life, our happinesses, our sorrows.  It became somewhat clear that we'd like to take an adventure, you know, make that dream of moving somewhere else a reality.  And what better place than Victoria, British Columbia.



Breathtaking.



The flowers are blooming when it's the dead of winter in our city.



Everything is green, green, green.



Then there's the matter of the ocean.







The kids had a hoot collecting shells, crab skeletons, smooth beach glass and rocks.  We like Victoria because should we choose to stay there, the kids can go to university while living at home.  It doesn't make sense.  Our families are in Alberta.  The people we know and love live in Edmonton, our home city.  But there is a sense of excitement in going to the unknown.  In starting over.  And so we will embrace it, that part of our hearts which  beat with wild ecstasy over this upcoming move.

On the way home we drove from spring to winter.



Heaps of snow.  Horrible roads.





It made me miss the Springtime that has already arrived on the coast.  But there is something comforting about coming home too.  So now being home, we will step by step get ourselves ready to move to a new home.  Not a better home, just a different home and another opportunity for personal growth.