A Change in Lifestyle

     Most of a full week in and five more to go.

 Let me explain. 

     Last Wednesday morning I took my wife to the airport so that she could fly to Pasadena, Ca.  The head office for the company that she works for is located there. With a bunch of other stuff going on this summer as well, we had discussed this opportunity for her at length. There  was no way that I would have been part of holding her back from progressing in her career, so for me it was an easy decision. There were some initial timing details that we need to figure out with the sale of the house and the short period between receiving the paperwork and signing our papers at the lawyers but somehow it all managed to work out. 
     The time with the kids has been awesome so far, they have managed to keep up with their chores and I have been able to be around when they need me to be. I know that this is about to get much harder with the end of school quickly approaching and lots of extracurricular things like the Canada Day Demo and four on four hockey about to start on top of going to the gym and Kung Fu classes. The kids are also flying out to see my parents on Aug 1st for almost three weeks so it is nice to get some extra time with them before they go. I am sure that over the next five weeks that there will be lots of routine things that don't happen, gym missed here a class missed there, but I also know that it is for a relatively short period of time and in a couple of months things will be back to "normal".
     One thing that I didn't think too much about while we were discussing Dawn working in Pasadena, were my requirements. As they are mine and should definitely not adversely affect her career, it never really entered the conversation. That is until after she left and I started trying to figure out how I was supposed spend time with someone that is 2800 km's away. And that was the easier one to overcome. We have been talking daily so I am pretty sure this one will be covered. The date night one is going to be a little trickier though. 
     If I am missing here or there over the next month you will know why. I don't plan on missing anything but it is amazing how much stuff you don't know you don't do, until you have to do everything.