Hello all and good evening from Halifax!

If anyone is still reading this blog, God bless you!!? You have an amazing amount of patience and optimism – you must be a Leafs fan!? The blog is one of many things that has fallen by the way side over the last year.? Other things like sleeping, relaxing, reading are on our list but we are hoping that our move back to the Maritimes might mean a slighly less hectic lifestyle and more quality time for all of us.

As I write this, I am sitting on the front porch of our new place.? I think everyone should choose their house as blindly as we did.? It doesn’t really have a backyard.? That’s the only bad thing we can say about it.? The house is going to suit us perfectly and the landlord seems quite nice.? We have been told that our furniture and all the other personal belongings that couldn’t fit into our Kia Soul should be arriving tomorrow morning.? I’m very hopeful that this is more than just something the mover said to comfort the overly-emotional lady he had at the phone.? Even if it doesn’t arrive until Monday, we’ll be fine.? We have electricity, two air mattresses, stolen wi-fi and we’re together!? What else matters?? (I should take this moment to give a shoutout to the friends and family that have hosted us while we were homeless – Mom, Mom and Dad Serroul, Jamie and Lori – THANKS!!!!)

I’ve been at work for two weeks already.? I think I will like it there.? I actually got to do something useful today and it felt really good.? I’m surrounded by Islanders of all kinds – Cape Bretoners, Newfs, etc.? It’s really nice to hear the back home accents again.? I’m also enjoying being called dear and honey by customer service staff wherever I go.? I am definitely in the right part of the country again.

John and the girls have two more weeks of vacation.? The girls met a couple of neighbourhood kids this evening and saw that Halifax has Dominos Pizza so I think they finally believe that everything will be ok here.? I’m hoping to take them down to the waterfront to see Theodore Tugboat (I get to watch him from my cubicle every day!!) and maybe a few of the last buskers.

Anyway, that’s the way our world looks from the front porch at 8:19 on our first Friday as a Haligonian family.? All the nervousness and apprehension of the last month is slowly starting to slip away.? I think a beer or a glass of wine would probably make it disappear completely but that’ll have to wait until we have glasses.? And beer.

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