About the Blogger Living in Aurora

We moved into our new home in Aurora back in 1997. It was actually a Halloween night when I brought most of my belongings. I am originally from Mississauga, so moving into a small town was a big change to me. I knew that the life will be different and better - I was not wrong.

Mississauga is a relatively big city. After graduating from high school I started my studies at the University of Toronto, and therefore most of my time I spent in Toronto – even bigger city. Back in 1996 when my husband found our new home in the town of Aurora, I never once objected and looked back. I have not fully explored Aurora then, but I had this good gut feeling that the life here will be beautiful.

Back in 1997 when we moved in to our new home in a newly built subdivision, the land around us was not yet developed. It was very quiet. Working long hours and not having much time to explore the area around us, at no time the houses started to rise from the ground. Yes the subdivisions were being built every where. The housing sales were booming.

I still cannot believe that a decade passed, we are still living in Aurora, and in our original house. We have a new family addition – a beautiful son, who for over a year now been nothing but a joy in our lives. We are very fortunate to be able to raise our child together and dedicate most of our time watching him grow and be happy. I guess you can tell that right now I am stay-at-home mom. My new profession is parenthood, and I love it.

In the past I worked for both, a large corporation and a small business. Having that experience, I have decided to be self-employed. This gave me an opportunity to travel, and explore some beautiful places like Singapore, Japan, Germany and Italy, not to mention that I was born in Europe. Then seeing all that, we started to travel more around Canada visiting places like Canadian Rockies and Nova Scotia.

There is a saying, ‘grass looks always greener on the other side’. Having said that, I thought what was wrong with exploring areas around where we live, the town of Aurora and its surroundings. No, there is nothing wrong. We sometimes take for granted how much interesting history and beautiful nature is all around us - I did too. Waking up one day, we took car to our local park Sheppard’s Bush Conservation Area and could not believe what we were missing over many years.

Since then, for few years now, I and my husband been hiking and biking around Aurora and surroundings. In addition, I got involved in bird watching and photography. Today, here I am blogging about Living in Aurora, and hope that you also will join me and share your experiences with me.

'You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.' ~ by Joan Crawford