I haven’t written since winter, and here we are now, mid-June, the precipice of summer before us. Normally (well, what is “normal”) I’d be excited for the hot weather, trips to the beach, planning a long trip to Cape Breton, and arranging our days off with our summer visitors. But this June has other plans for us. Our minds are occupied with routes and kilometers. Distances from point A to B and which hotel has a waterslide. Email’s to our eldest’s school administrator that reads: “I’m actually not sure if he will be starting school here in the fall, if he does, he won’t be here long. We’ll let you know as soon as we know. Thanks for your understanding.”
I’ve been through my share of postings in my life. It was easier as the dependent. But as the mom, the parent, the one responsible for the well-being and care of these three tiny humans… now it’s a bit more stressful. We’ve told them about the move, but of course it’s hard for them to understand. Heck, it’s hard for us to grasp. We point to a map:
“We live here… and we’re going to move all the way over here.”
“When?”
“This summer, hopefully. Before school starts. Maybe.”
When you’re a kid the summers feel so long. As an adult they fly by. I wonder how 12 days in a car will feel to an almost-two-year-old. We are having fun picking out playgrounds across the country. Hotels and stops that look like places the kids will enjoy. But we can’t book just yet. We just mentally prep. Usually at 2 am instead of sleeping.
We’re in for an interesting summer and I hope that I can document a lot of it. Driving across the entire country with 3 kids will be exciting, challenging, eventful but hopefully not toooo eventful. I hope this is a sign the kids are in for a lifetime of adventure and that they see a lot of the world.
For now, we keep things as normal as possible. We still have a few more weeks of school and normalcy. A month before Matt leaves and our family is apart for an undetermined amount of time. It weighs heavy and I hope it won’t be for long. But there’s nothing we can do but wait and see.
I’ve been trying to take more photos of the kids around the house so that we have evidence of the significance of our modest little life here. It was only three years but it was certainly eventful. For now we can look forward to a few of our booked plans (although they could all change with the arrival of an email, IYKYK). We are camping again at Keji in July. We will hopefully make it up to CB for another visit before we depart. Maybe a visitor or two if Matt’s gone for awhile before we get to go too.
…and whilst all that is happening I will continue my restless nights thinking about our next big roadtrip.
Until next time,
R