Where am I??

I have been in a big busy stress cloud. I finished my teaching guide and power point presentation for a workshop teaching holistic wound assessment based on the wound bed preparation paradigm. It was a ton of work, but such a valuable experience.

The girls birthdays have come and gone, smaller parties this year, mainly because we hardly know people yet. The girls had fun, I bought extravagant cakes, and it was nice. It seems weird that theya re so old-9 and 6. Wow-where has the time gone? And where have we gone? All over. We have moved so much in such a short time, I had an odd experience a few days ago. Dave told me he was going to the Canex, and I actually had to pause to think about where we were. We haven't had a Canex near since 2006, so I got a little stalled in my thoughts trying to picture where the Canex was, i actually forgot where we were living. It was the oddest feeling.

We are 10 minutes from the Ocean, 10 minutes from a lake here. We ventured to the lake today, it was gorgeous, clear, deep, surrounded by low mountains and trees, camping right on the water. We met up with our neighbours from across the street, they are very nice, their daughter and Josh are quite the pair. I can't believe the scenery here. We were to camp this weekend, turns out Dave has an airshow, so we will head to Nanaimo to shop instead.

"I wish the world was a big fluffy place, they we wouldn't get hurt". This was Noni's comment after falling off her new scooter. I have to agree with her, it would be nice wouldn't it? If the world was kinder, gentler, we would not have to hold our kids so tight in fear of the outside world. At times, 6 year olds have incredible clarity. I AM glad to be out of a crime ridden city, to a community where we have environmental conscience, a sense of community, and just in general people are calmer and happier. We live in a very nice nieghbourhood, and we are enjoying meeting people. The best friends of the girls here are very nice, and we are all getting together more and more. And our friends from before and their daughter are good friends, we are so glad they are here.

I am almost on vacation, a little bit more work to finish up, but very low stress. We have some camping booked, but not all, so I am cranked to go. Davey ahs been busy, tiled my workout room, put up laundry cabinets, and we had to buy a new dryer. We have now decided we need a new high efficiency washer to match, so that is next! We are waiting for the carpet guys to fix the carpet edge in the family room first, then we tile the mud room. I CAN"T WAIT!

Lotsa stuff to do yet....