Goldfish, Bike Bells and New Friends

Dad's first day of school too!

I feel the same way! How did he get to grade three?

Watch out world...here she comes!

    Hello again! So it has been awhile since the original..."Here we go!" post. Let's just say that traveling 3600km across the country with four children and then setting up "home" in a new city requires a bit of recovery time. We may be recovering for awhile so excuse the run on sentences and bad grammar. The drive took a round out of all of us and required a large investment in cheddar goldfish :-) The kids honestly did pretty well. We started off by staying with some new friends through the adoption community. Our kids loved hanging out with other kids and we were blessed by their hospitality. Manitoba passed by in a blip and then Ontario....oh Ontario the land of rocks, trees and low speed limits. All was well until Sault Saint Marie messed up our reservation and we decided (on what lack of wisdom neither of us can recall) to push through to Sudbury....push through friends. What appears to be only three hours in the mindset of 100km/h is in all actuality much longer and what feels like eternity when two of the four are screaming, the other two fighting and the driver and passenger doing all they can to hold it together (and failing). So, the Ehmann's survived spent a day in Sudbury to celebrate a boy's 8th birthday and finally pushed into our new home.

Our Educational Assistants this year.

     With a few extra kijiji purchases under our belts and a trip or two to the library down the street we have finally settled in. Having just finished up our second week of classes we are all settling into a new schedule. Tim is busy with one or two classes everyday on Mon, Tues, Wed and Friday and I get some learning time in too on Wednesdays. The kids have joined a phenomenal classical conversations group and are learning all about the middle ages (as am I because.....let's face it....this momma's got some work to do in the area of history) and AWANA starts this week. Life has got a new rhythm and I think we are all enjoying it.

These two are such troopers. They love the bike rides.

   Fall in Ottawa has given us spectacular weather. The leaves are starting to change but the days are warm and beautiful. We live across from the canal and are on our bikes around the city most days, sometimes twice a day. We bike to parliament, around the canal and across the locks. To museums and new playgrounds. To the library. Honestly, I would rather bike here than drive and most times it is actually faster. When the snow flies we will need to find some other form of entertainment but for now we are embracing city life on pedal power.