Greetings from the Great White North!
My family and I are settling nicely into our new home in Canada. The last 6 months have definitely been a wild ride though. The remainder of May was spent prepping for our big move. The first 19 days in June were spent driving here from our home in Arizona. We went to 8 national or state parks and visited a number of other interesting landmarks on our way. It was an incredible once-in-a-lifetime experience.
We spent the remainder of June into July in quarantine. At that time, three negative covid tests and a 14+ day quarantine were required to enter Canada from the US. One of our tests got lost, so our quarantine ended up being 16 days. We had a big celebration on July 4th once we were "freed." Of course, we weren't celebrating July 4th in Canada... Not really anyway!
The remainder of July and August were spent getting the new house in order and prepping my boys for school. They're in French immersion and spent around 6 months being tutored by my mother-in-law so they wouldn't sit there like deer in headlights on their first day. They're doing OK.
September is when school and hockey evaluations began! Youth sports are a huge time suck. As is the contract editing job I took for a textbook I helped write.
Fast forward to Christmas and New Years, our whole family got omicron. We were fortunate to get mild cases. The fatigue is absolutely unreal though. I hope you all have been well and safe and that your holiday season was happy.
So here we are. Today, I finished chapter 30 in Rarity. Finally. I have been working on this stupid chapter for about a year. I'm keeping my fingers crossed the remaining 8 or so chapters come a lot faster. In any case, I felt you all deserved an update. Thank you for your continued support! I will post here as soon as I type the final words in the book.
Andrea.
