This month we are preparing to move into a new phase of our lives. Alex has been with us for almost 24 years, as we’ve moved around the country from one place to another. He has worked for the past few years in a grocery store stocking shelves and working in the produce department.
After some unproductive time spent wandering around Nelson and Castlegar (our two closest towns), and several trips across the Kootenay Pass to the east, he has finally settled on Cranbrook as his new place of residence. Lodgings have been secured (not an easy thing in this rental market) and we are on our way at the beginning of May with our small trailer load of furniture and a few boxes of belongs and a couple duffle bags full of clothing.
It will take some adjustment for us to settle in to our new reality…. we are already ‘missing’ him and he’s not even gone yet, LOL! But we are wishing him well in his new venture. He’s only 3 hours away, so we will get to see him regularly before winter sets in and the pass is more sketchy. (I do not particularly like winter driving…. so we will travel it less often through the winter months). How many of you have experienced the empty nest syndrome?
