I liked the questions this week, so joining up with the Tuesday 4 gang to answer a few how? questions on this beautiful March morning. (They’re all beautiful, because every day is a step closer to spring.)
1. How did you end up in the place where you are living?
My family moved from Saskatchewan to British Columbia when I was about 13-years-old. It broke my heart and I always longed to return to this land that was my heart’s home. Fast forward fifty-plus years, and my dream came true when my husband and I decided to make the move back to my home town. Not everyone understood the attraction of the prairie province over B.C., but those who know, know. Once a prairie girl, always a prairie girl.
2. How did you end up with the job you have/had?
I’m retired from my corporate career, so it to careful planning and hard work to get here! I went back to school when my youngest started first grade and studied computer systems, operations and management. I was a computer programmer turned business analyst for 25 years, (mostly) loved the work I did, but was grateful to be able to retire early.
3. How do you end up with your life partner?
We lived in the same city and our boys were the same age so we were aware of one another. When life took a turn for both of us and we were both partner-less, we connected at Bible study and the rest is history.
Here’s a photo of us taken at Butchart Gardens on our honeymoon twenty-seven years ago. Crazy kids. 😊
4. How did your weekend go and how is the week ahead looking?
I was under the weather, so the weekend was slow. This week, I’m raring to go and have a couple of seasonal projects. Methinks spring fever is starting to kick in.
This was a fun post, taking me down a few old memory lanes.
Hi Linda, your photos are beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing your life’s journey. ❤️
Thanks so much, Linda!
LOL, I married a prairie boy but really am a big city girl from the east. I ended up in Saskatchewan when my Dad decided not to work at the Hudson’s Bay Company any longer. He wanted to move to the Western stores and they preferred he stay in Toronto. He quit and moved to Yorkton, and from there he and Mom purchased a few motels, hotels, bars, and such in the province. Still I love the prairies as most of my extended family live in them and those that don’t still come home every so often.
I do feel the pull to the big city ever so often and actually got to show Hubby the east this past fall.
God bless.
Never would have pegged you for a “big city girl from the east”, Jackie!
I like the picture of the two of you on your honeymoon at lovely Butchart Gardens.
I was born and raised in Manitoba but moved to B.C. well over 50 years ago and never looked back. Although winter is beautiful out there I found it just too cold. And long.
Funny, how we all somehow find the places that we are meant to be in. And yes, it can be very cold!! (but not so much this year)
These are great questions. How I came to live where I live and met my first life partner: 50 years ago (just a baby at 18), I met a guy in Long Island, NY, where we both went to high school. We were casually dating when I graduated and, on a whim, decided to go to FL to surf for awhile. We ended up married, had 2 kids and have lived in central Florida ever since. How I came to work in Healthcare administration – I was a waitress and part-time assistant manager at a restaurant – my regular customer was a physician who said “if you can run a restaurant, you can run a physician practice”. I worked in the profession for 35 years.
You’re a surfer girl, Kathy! What a fun thing! And isn’t it interesting how seemingly random connections set clear a path for one’s life’s work.
I always enjoy hearing more about people’s lives and how they arrived at where they are at. My parents are both from Saskatchewan but moved to BC when young. I’ve always lived in BC other than my years at Briercrest – hello, Moose Jaw!, and our years in Ecuador. I never imagined that I would settle on Vancouver Island, though. It was such an exotic place to someone who grew up in the north.
Loved the photo of you on your honeymoon at Butchart Gardens, not very far from where I live.
Seems like everyone has some kind of MJ connection!! I agree, the Island always seemed, and still does, like a special place.
I can understand your desire to go back to your heart’s ‘home’. I too live a long way from my birthplace and miss it, it is still a different way of life there but we will never go back permanently now.
That’s a lovely honeymoon photo, memories to look back on. Have a great week. Diana
Thanks for coming by, Diana!