[null, null, {"document_url": "http://yukon-tara.blogspot.com/2015/02/big-things-little-things.html", "unformatted_src": "https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7337/16308504807_10a570680f_z.jpg", "src": "https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7337/16308504807_10a570680f_z.jpg", "formatted_filename": "a f z", "alt_text": "Week 6: Directional Light 2015 365 Day 39", "rendered_width": "100%"}, null, null, null, null, null, null, null]

Big Things, Little Things I've held off on writing this post because I wanted to be sure it was for real. But now, it's pretty close to being real, so here goes...

We're moving to Ontario. I think it's pretty obvious to my readers that I very much want to live closer to my family, and we've decided to make that happen. Having the support of my parents, my sister, my extended family and P's family is so important, especially with this 3rd baby coming. I struggled hard after Colm was born. Reading back over my private journal from the last year, I was barely keeping it together. Things will (hopefully) be so much easier after this babe is born.

We've been staying at my parents since November, with the exception of two weeks in Costa Rica and a little time with P's family here and there. I'm so grateful to my mom and dad for welcoming us into their home and letting us disrupt their lives. We've got another month and a half here and then we should be moving into our own house not far away.

It's been stressful, trying to pull this mortgage together. I'm into the last trimester of my pregnancy and the exhaustion is suddenly hitting me hard. The cold weather has kept us all a bit housebound, which is not fun with an energetic 3 year old. But soon the sun will warm the air, the snow will melt...we'll be into a new house, this baby will be born, and we'll be launched into the next chapter of this life.

I've decided to put Up the Dempster to bed. I'm working on a new blog layout, and I will post a link to it here once I've started posting there. I hope you'll follow me there, where I'll write honestly about family life and mothering and maybe eventually some travel...but if you don't, I understand. The Yukon has been a huge part of my life for the last decade, and I know we're not done with it yet (we do still have a business to run there, after all) but it will be a much smaller part of things for the time being.

So, there you have it. Doing the thing I said I'd never do...moving back to southwestern Ontario!
Posted by Tara Borin at 8:31 AM