Where to start

Wow. It has been a loooong time since my last post and like the title says "where to start". Lets start from my last post. Feb 20011 -we had a really 'snowy' winter and a week of warm weather melting the snow piled high on our roof caused ice dams and we had water coming in a lot of places. We spent the next few weekas contolling water, removing ice dams and waiting to see if more water would come in. In March we called the insurance company, got an adjuster in to check out the damage and spent the next two months living in and out of a hotel while the restoration company fixed our house.

This is where things got complicated. About two weeks after we started our insurance claim my husband got a promotion/transfer to a city 2hrs away and he needed to start there ASAP. So while I was living in a hotel with two little children and looking for a new job, my husband was commuting on the weekends. We were also trying to get our in progress renovations finshed so we could sell the house once the insurance work was completed.
Fast forward a month or two and our little city (and most of the province for that matter) gets hit with a massive flood, some of my friends and coworkers are evacuated from their houses due to risk of dikes breaching and the housing market takes a nose dive. I found a job in the 'big city' and in June we transitioned to our new living quarters in our travel trailer at a campground 50km from the big city. The kids loved living at the campground, they got to swim whenever they felt like it and feed the ducks everyday. Miss O had her 2nd birthday at the campground and there was ample space for the girls run and ride around in their car.

We enjoyed our family time throughout the summer in our less than ideal living quarters while we waited for our house to sell.... and waited...and waited. The flood situation improved, the waters slowly receeded and the giant sandbag dikes finally came down. Things started to look normal again, the housing market never did recover though. In October we moved in with my mom and grandma into their tiny 2 bedroom apartment and hoped for the best. Let me tell you, 6 people in a 2 bdrm apartment is even less ideal than 4 people in a camper. The end of October rolled around and our house finally sold. We moved into our new place the beginning of December and it instantly felt like home.
I am getting used to the big city life. I like the convenience of the bigger and better variety for shopping but still getting used to the traffic and distance to get anyhwere. It used to take me 10min to get from one end of the city to the other, 20 min tops in traffic. Now it takes me 15 min just to get to the grocery store and up to an hour to get to places on the other end of the city. I was stuck in traffic for 45 min the other day comin ghome from a friends' place with 2 cranky kids in the backseat. I guess its something I will eventually get used to, or will I?
I finally pulled out my yarn and crochet hooks and started crocheting again once we got settled. You can check out some of my latest creations on my Facebook Page Crochet By Tracy