New year

A new year has just begun, and this year, more than any other in my memory, I feel the changes coming; I feel them almost overwhelmingly. Usually, our lives revolve around the school year, and so changes occur in the late summer and early fall. Other times, changes come unexpectedly, at various points in the year. But 2008 will be different.

2008 will see me beginning not only a new job, but a new career path. I will be starting work in the federal public service, in the communications sector, in the coming weeks.

2008 will see us leave our beloved Montreal, leaving the friends and neighbours who have become so dear, leaving the city that has come to feel like home in so many ways.

2008 will see us return home to Ottawa, to the bosom of our parents, our oldest friends, and our home church at Ascension.

2008 will see us jump headlong into home-ownership, for the very first time.

2008 will see me spend long periods of time away from my girls (and my dear husband) as I work in Ottawa and commute back to Montreal on the weekends.

2008 will see Derek finish his PhD as he moves on to new challenged in the hallowed halls of academia.

2008 already feels like a great tidal wave, rising on the horizon, waiting to sweep us into the torrent of life, of change.

So my readers will forgive me if I'm a little absent and write a little less; they will forgive me, too, if when I do post I seem especially melancholic—or ecstatic.

Grab your surfboards, my friends, it's gonna be a helluva ride.