First Workweek Apartment in the Twin Cities. North Pole refinery to cease processing crude oil; all but 35 to be laid off. As if finding out our livelihood, the refinery, was shutting down and therefore my husband was going. The home in AK that we built and sold. Surprise! The home in MN that we are remodeling. That same week, contractors came to install a new roof on our remodel home. The kids and I moved to MN.

Random thoughts about Fairbanks life, Nature, religion, and parenting from a Wiccan perspective. The past few months have been very busy with - strangely enough - a wedding! Due to the Supreme Court ruling for gay marriage, my cousin and his partner of a decade were finally getting hitched and they went all out; thus, my aunt bustled about assisting with preparations that my cousin could not while in London. I had a bit of a freak-out, too.