A Winter Holiday Wonderland

My brother and his wife are blessed to live in Canmore, Alberta, in the Rocky Mountains.  We found out they bought a bigger house while we were living on the boat and at the point we invited ourselves out for Christmas (and they graciously welcomed us).  We descended on them for two weeks and also brought along my parents flying …

A Wrap Up Four Months On

It has now been almost 4 months since we moved back to Canada and I thought it might be nice to discuss how the adjustment has been. First off, it is amazing how seamlessly you can slide back into your “other life”.  A lot of people asked us if we experienced culture shock living back in Canada.  Surprisingly we didn’t; …

Canada

We have been back from our visit to Canada for 2 weeks now and are shamefully just getting around to writing a blog about it.  I had a fantastic 5 weeks at home with the kids and Paul joined us for the last 2 weeks of the visit.  What we learned is that home leave (expat vocabulary) is really not …