Dear Jasmina

Monique and Nathalie, both pregnant, both due only weeks apart, both living in the country. If there is one thing we miss besides David and Jasmina, with Sébastien and Geneviève, it is having friends with little ones in the city. “You should move to the country” they say. “Why don’t you move to Sainte-Agathe?” they ask. “Our kids could play together!” they add. It’s not that living in the country is such a bad idea… Christian wouldn’t mind a piece of land. I wouldn’t mind the quiet space. But I don’t know what Christian would do to me, if, for the 3rd time in a week I forgot an ingredient at the store… sour cream for this, or garlic for that. I don’t see how you can be spontaneous in the country without needing twice the amount of gas, or a pantry and freezer of Hutterite colony proportions. I like the fact that getting a birthday card is 5 minutes away, ice cream 3, and that bike trails are paved.