Permanent

A few exciting things have happened since my last blog post.

First, and maybe most importantly, Jeff became a permanent resident of the United States again. He had to give up his permanent residence status about two years after we moved to Canada, and go through the whole process of applying again when we moved back. We had no idea how long the process would take, and one day we checked the status and it said we were 14 months from a decision, and the next day the application was approved. He got his card in the mail and hilariously they used his picture from 2007 (even though he sent a new photo with his application).

The second most exciting thing is that Maren got her ears pierced. She has been asking and waiting for months, and now was finally a good time (in between soccer and basketball). She is pretty thrilled.

Other stuff less exciting: we had the end of a fairly tumultuous term, where the grad student employees were on strike and then finally a month later reached an agreement, and we are all glad to have a little rest now. We are enjoying spending some time outdoors, and having our holiday celebrations :-)