I’m back. It’s always a little unnerving crossing the border. I don’t know why, I am pretty used to it and it’s not like I am doing anything wrong, just going to visit my family. I don’t bring anything across I shouldn’t or anything like that, except maybe I did have grapes Big Boy was eating in the food bag and fruits are a no-no, but that hardly counts right? No, it’s not even coming back into the states that is the issue anymore, that used to make me more nervous, now it’s getting out of the friggin country that is the problem. The Canadians have taken a serious dislike to Americans I think, especially Americans who used to be Canadians, like me, perhaps it’s because they cannot vote in our elections and yet the outcome affects their country greatly. It seems everytime I cross it gets harder. I tend to go alone with the kids, hubby stays home, he works afterall and it’s his busy season, tax season and all. Obviously, since I am leaving the country with my kids and not with my husband, I am attempting to kidnap my kids. This is how I feel everytime lately. They wanted a letter from the father saying I was allowed to take the kids out of the country, the Canadians want this in order to let me in. I got a letter, it was fine last time. But this time my letter was ridiculed and now they want it notorized. Because it’s so hard to get a notorized letter nowadays, I know several people who are notaries, it’s not a big deal, it’s just they keep wanting more and acting like I am a criminal because I didn’t have this letter. She then quizzed me on my car, and what is my license plate, how should I know, I never look at it and I’ve had the car one month. Please! It just seems in the last few years the tide has changed. The Americans used to make me nervous crossing into the states, but now I dread arriving at the Canadian border and can’t wait to get back into the country and breathe my sign of relief that I made it back. Sad really, it makes me not want to go home which really is not an option when my whole family lives there. It’s a sad state of affairs really. I had to get passports for the kids to get back into the states and now need a notorized letter to get into Canada. I understand the security concerns and the state the world is in, but it seems we are looking in the wrong places for the evil doers and just making it so hard to be good neighbors, Mr Rogers would be in tears. I swear it is now easier to get on a plane and fly to Europe than it is to drive to Canada and that’s pretty sad. When I arrived at the small border crossing his morning to come back in, I found a friendly agent, he questioned why I was crossing at this little tiny town crossing instead of the main crossing on the main highway, but I was heading in this direction to my mother in laws for the night so she could see the kids, and he agreed that was a good idea, if we had been visiting my parents I now should visit my mother in law too, in all fairness. lol Why didn’t my husband come, well he’s an accountant, oh well then he must be very busy right now, I can see why he didn’t come.  Much nicer than the evil woman hater woman I encountered in Canada.

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