We've been doing a cooperative daycare/joyschool with some great families in our beloved student family housing neighborhood. We have a different host family for each day of the week and usually one other parent comes to help as we often have around 6 kids between 20 months and 3 years. We host on Tuesdays and I volunteer half of the Thursdays. Its kept me pretty busy (alongside three little part-time jobs: teen programming at the community centre, facilitating parent group and watching a neighboring toddler). Aurora loves all her little friends and has a great time going to others' houses two days a week.In the above photo, our friend Nora and I took 5 kiddos to go visit the new chicks out at the UBC farm. We had a great time.
First picnic of the year! This was at the beginning of March, but since mid- February we've been having some really beautiful days sprinkled amidst the rain. We went with our dear friends Mike, Nora, and Bridger. Aurora's pose says it all. 
Taken today! Wahoo, how very timely of me. Our little court had an Easter egg hunt in the mini forest behind our houses. We love our neighborhood and neighbors. It will be so sad to leave this family and child-friendly utopia.And, as a bonus, since you're still reading our blog even though we didn't post for 2 months or so....
Here's our breaking news:
We are moving to Bellingham on May 1.
Its been a pretty excruciating decision to leave 2 months before we get booted from family housing, but Abram and I are both feeling pretty anxious to move forward with this decision that we've felt so guided to make (moving back to B-ham) and get settled BEFORE baby comes, rather than having a move hanging over our heads for when baby is a month or less old.
So, that's our news. Now you know. We're excited to return to lovely Bellingham but so, so sad to leave our wonderful friends and neighbors here.
