2010 Year End blog

2010 was a year characterized by CHANGE. More changes happened in 2010 than has happened in our lives for a long, long time.

The most significant was our decision in February to relocate (in June) from Ottawa Ontario to Regina Saskatchewan.

Carol

She completed her term as a director of the Ontario Genealogical Society. She hopes to attend the 2012 OGS conference in Kingston. She also continued her post-secondary program of study, which may lead to a designation as a professional genealogist.

Since our relocation in June she has been extremely busy with regular caregiving for our youngest grandchild, Cairo. He reminds us of how exhausting it can be dealing with a youngster in the 6 to 12 months age range.

Dave

Dave’s income tax preparation business had a very successful 7th year of operation. He will operate it from our new Saskatchewan location.

He continued to work ‘out of tax season’ for the Canadian Diabetes Association – this time in Regina, and a few weeks telemarketing for the National Arts Centre Foundation.

His completed his volunteer work in the synagogues in Ottawa and Kingston, and finished up a 4 ½ year term as a member of the City of Ottawa’s Advisory Committee on Equity and Diversity.

Family

Heather was very busy with raising Cairo. She found it a very exciting, if not exhausting, to deal with the ‘trials’ and ‘tribulations’ of a small child. She continued her studies at the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology. She and her boyfriend began to develop an online distribution system for antique and Aboriginal artefacts.

Trey, who is almost 13, continued his schooling in the year and to be an active participant on the world’s largest social network – facebook. He also was able to start using a cell phone for his social communication.

Giovanni, who is now 8 changed schools in 2010. He now attends a school very close to where we live and eats his lunch at our place on school days. The critical illness of his Dad is the reason for the relocation to Regina this year.

Dayvan, who is 7, still lives on Little Pine First Nation. We hear occasionally of his continued good life.