Moving on....................

We have been mulling over a lot of choices lately.......and one of these choices is moving away.......as much as we love our home here, Alberta is becoming something that we don't want......until justa few months ago we loved it here but things here are changing VERY fast.....90,000 a year are moving here because of the boom and everywhere is getting so busy........the roads, the line ups in the stores...the crowds at festivals......busy busy busy...one of the things we 'escaped' from when we left the UK. The materialism here is unreal......everything is about money and buying STUFF and it makes me sad that yet again my children are growing up in a materialistic community........even friends who say they want a relaxed lifestyle and want to slow things down for their children seem to be constantly pushing them into more and more activities and class situatuons.......this is so NOT what we wnat but its hard not to get sucked into it..........you kind of get left behind in the rush and I sooooo want my children to be children and not pressured or pushed into subjects or classes or spend half their lives in the truck running from class to class....surely even school is better than that. I just don't see the point.

Thank goodness for certain people who are in my life who think like us and don't bow down to the pressures and totally understand the way we are (you know who you are I hope!) and don't judge..................

So anyway.........we are looking at properties elsewhere.......and we will probably end up putting in a new kitchen and bathrooms here and tidying up the land and then selling and getting the hell out of here..............

I'm so sad because when we moved here it was a wonderful place to be...so laid back and slow compared to the UK.......no rush hour, no line ups, no crowds but the last year things have changed so much and its just getting worse.......yesterday we were in town and the traffic was awful mid morning Saturday....I remember when we first moved here that the roads would be empty until at least lunchtime on Saturdays............

I have a feeling we won't be here for more than a year or two....hopefully.......