It's official!

Hanging out in Beebe Woods

This will, by necessity, be a rather short little post.  It was one of those weeks where the camera barely left the shelf, and I therefore have very few photos to share.  There are two important things to report, however.

1. It is now official - we're moving to Ottawa in April!  Clark has been offered a job working for a company that develops and manufactures oceanographic equipment, called RBR. He will be there in the capacity of a "research scientist",  which will be a new position for both Clark and the company. We are actually all pretty excited - though we will be so very sad to leave the Cape (for any number of reasons), it feels good to be finally moving on to the next chapter in our lives.  We had never anticipated moving to Ottawa (as it is not coastal), but I really couldn't think of a better place to end up.  It is central, has great French Immersion for the kids, lots of potential opportunities for me, and (perhaps most immediately appealing), we already have some wonderful friends who live there.  We are now just entering the nightmare of logistics, the first of which will be where to live.  Clark's job is actually in Kanata (a suburb of Ottawa, 30 minutes outside of city centre), and we are currently leaning toward renting there, despite the fact that the 'burbs are not particularly appealing to either of us.  I think at least for the first year, that makes sense - Clark will be able to get to work with little to no commute time, and we can have a leisurely year to suss it out, see if we hate or love it, and then make more informed decisions for the long-term.  If anyone has strong opinions on this, let us know!

Picture with the Cape Cod Bagel Marlin

 2. My parents (aka, Mary and Bob), came for a weekend visit!  This is the second weekend in a row that we've had some grandparent hang-out time.  There was more swimming (the kids truly can't get enough of it); some library knitting/story time with Juniper; Clark and I got to go to a movie (Imitation Game, which we both thoroughly enjoyed); and there was just a whole lot of general excitement.  We even found some Christmas gifts in the basement from mom and dad that we had forgotten about (long story), so there was also some unexpected present opening!

Story time with Mary

And that, I suppose, is that about that.  Juniper got me to record a few new episodes of her educational newscast, which you can find here, if you're interested: love, snow and ballroom dancing. (Or, as you may have memorized my now, you can simply go to juniperandlinden.org). See you next week!