Y is for Yuletide Fun; Y is for You Never Know Where Life Will Take You

Y is for Yuletide Fun:

We are getting in to the last couple of weeks leading up to Christmas and Ava's loving it. She loves the tree, the lights and she even loved visiting Santa this year. Last year she had a tough time with Santa and Mommy had to be in the picture, this year I'm happy to report that there were no tears only sweet smiles and no Mommy in the picture :)

She is going to be one lucky little girl this Christmas and I can't wait to see the delight on her face when she gets what she asked Santa for :) She's been such a good little girl and has come so far in everything since last Christmas. It's these years that will be the most special.

Ava can even recite the 12 Days of Christmas by memory:


I love her little voice and I love making these videos of her :)


Y is for You Never Know Where Life Will Take You:

Today is our 8.5 year dating anniversary, but this week has special meaning to us, in many other ways.

Ten years ago this week I quit my job at the grocery store (you know the one that I am working at again) and moved to the Comox Valley for my first job in radio. I was so young and naive and excited. It was what I wanted though, on air at a country radio station, and it was great for awhile. I was on air from December 2000-April 2004, when I decided I would rather have weekends off with Derek and work a Monday-Friday kind of job. I left the radio station to go on maternity leave when I had Ava and never went back.

Speaking of leaving the radio station, this Friday will be Derek's last day!!!!

After over 24 years of working for the Coast group of stations he has decided its time to move on. There are many other reasons which out of respect to my amazing and brave husband I won't get into, but lets just say, it wasn't right. I am really excited about the unknown, I was really upset for a couple of days but now I am really happy and excited for him. I'm very proud of my husband.

I'll have to work more, but I am grateful that I have a job that will allow me to pick up more hours and that has been so flexible. This wasn't where I thought I'd be when Ava was born, I thought that I would be able to stay home and raise her, but now her Daddy will get to have more time with her and we'll still end up with more family time than we had before, at least for the short term.

Derek has a few ideas of what he'd like to do but we'll just have to wait and see what the future has in store, whatever he decides he will succeed!