Our daughter is coming home on the week-end! York University has been on strike for over a week, and it doesn’t look like there’s going to be a settlement any time soon. Iris has been weighing the pros and cons of coming home versus staying in Toronto, and has decided that it makes more sense for her to come back to Whitehorse at this point. Hopefully once here she’ll be able to get a part-time job and earn a bit of extra cash. And hopefully they won’t settle just as she gets home!

I’ve missed the kids terribly this fall. Having two out of the territory has been harder than last year’s situation where Iris was the only one not here. Added to that, our youngest is into full teen mode these days, which means he’s rarely home, choosing the company of his friends over us. I think I’m missing the old Jamie as much as I’m missing Alan and Iris. Yup, it really does feel like I’m living in a big empty nest. That probably explains why I’ve taken up volunteering at the animal shelter…it’s a way of feeding my ‘mothering’ instincts. 

But as of Saturday, my nest will be a little bit less roomy, at least for a while. And that makes this mother bird happy.