and time flies...

Business, business, business.... I am running late with the matters of The Little Workshop. In the crunch of the fall registrations, with some schedule tweeking to prepare for Tim's absence. Kevin Braun, our guitar and bass teacher, will take over most of Tim's students while we're away. It works out very well, he is a great guy.
The training schedules are done for my two new Petit Atelier teachers, and looking forward to being in the classroom with them. One is booked for the entire school year, and the other one will be covering the shorter contracts in smaller daycares for this year. All good stuff, very exciting.

The kitchen is finished at last - I mean really really finished. It looks great, still feels a bit awkward while getting used to it. The house is almost in sublet condition... only have to do a big paint job pretty much all over the rest of the house, and a new floor in the bathroom. Oh yeah, and change all the runners in the back entrance of The Little Workshop. We will get there!

While in Quebec city a couple of weeks ago I went to the big weekly flea market in Ste-Foy. I found many small instruments for a ridiculous price, and my mom had found some too a couple of weeks before. So now I have a nice bag of various percussive instruments that I can donate to the Majahual school. I will complete the collection with a set of rhythm sticks and maybe some bells and small maracas. I just hope that the teachers and children will keep having fun with the songs and games I will teach them long after I leave town.

I'm getting busier and I have less time to day dream but when I do, I admit that the prospect of spending three months in Mexico is scary at times. It is a long time considering that our longest trip so far was for only three weeks. I see it as a fun challenge to be out of our comfort zone, although we're not exactly going to live in misery... but certainly modestly and away from the big money machine of our crazy branded world. It will require interesting adjustments from each of us, not always easy of course. I once read that 'life is a balancing act of holding on and letting go', I think it's a very good way to look at it.

3 months to departure...

Summer vacation is almost over, and I brace myself for a very busy few weeks. Le Petit Atelier is set for the fall with my main daycare clients confirmed, and it is now time to make a round of registrations for The Little Workshop.

In terms of personal organisation, we are all going to the dentist next week. I also decided to look for a first aid course for Dylan and I, and I will also have to look into vaccinations and malaria prevention. We will arrive in Quintana Roo just at the end of the rain season, and our first destination is on a thin slice of land between the Caribbean and a long mangrove. Better look into that!

Still traveling with the roof top bag, still haven't filled it to full capacity - still very happy with it.

We will soon go back home after spending about 10 days in the beautiful Rimouski County, I love it here. We enjoy the amazing Appalachian scenery - we see a lot of birds. Can't help to wonder if the loons, the ducks, the hummingbirds, and all creatures flying South to the Gulf of Mexico will come back to the North next summer. Hoping they will, just like us.