{"id":4238,"date":"2010-06-28T17:21:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T22:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2010-06-28T18:25:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T23:25:52","slug":"this-is-how-much-i-love-my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/28\/this-is-how-much-i-love-my-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how much I love my mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

S<\/span>o I’m in Nova Scotia, and I have a lot of stories to tell you already. Like torrential rain for eight straight hours of driving, and the inevitable bit where someone barfs (not me) and someone misses an exit (also not me) and we end up lost and really unhappy for a bit. And the bit about how the Queen arrived in Halifax the same day as us, and the part about how un-freaking-believably beautiful this little house on the ocean really is, and how it’s so foggy I can’t really see more than five feet of ocean but I can hear the fog horns calling out to each other. Truly fan-fucking-tastic.<\/p>\n

Nope, this is the story about how my mother is on the way to the Ottawa airport to the Fed-Ex people there, and how I’ll drive to Dartmouth tomorrow to pick up the package that she’s overnighting to me. The package with the key. To the roof rack. With half our luggage, including all the boys clothes except the ones they were wearing yesterday, and all our jackets, and most of the boys toys. Oh yes we did. We locked the Thule rack up nice and tight the night before we left, Beloved hung the keys on the hook, and there they stayed.<\/p>\n

Heck, I was planning on heading up to Halifax eventually anyway… tomorrow now seems like the perfect day to do it! Oh, and if you want to see the pix of day 1 on the road, Ottawa to Grand Sault, NB, they’re on Flickr!
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\nMuch more to come — for now, I’m going for a walk in the fog at the edge of the ocean… with my boys and my camera. Life is good, and my mother and father are truly a treasure. <\/p>\n

Thanks Mom and Dad! I owe you (another) one. Wait, I think after Beau’s great escape, we might be even on this one. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Edited to add:<\/strong> by the way, UPS told them it would take up to four days and cost $65. Fed-Ex shipped it from Ottawa to Dartmouth from 6 pm to noon tomorrow for $25. Yay Fed-Ex!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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