Sprague Family Update

It’s been quite some time since we’ve posted anything here on our website, and while many of you have been keeping up with us via Facebook, others of you have been completely left in the dark.  Here’s a quick update on the Sprague family.  Both of us have completed our masters degrees (Terra’s an MEd and Jason’s an MBA), graduating from their universities with high honors and are still living in Bristol, England.

Jason is working as a management consultant for Happold Consulting based out of their Bath office.  He travels two or three days a week to client sites in Manchester, London and Birmingham and the balance of the time works in the Bath office or from home.  He helps clients to plan and implement change processes in their businesses.  He’s also staying busy helping in a volunteer capacity as a trustee for Changes Bristol, a non-profit charity that offers talking therapy for people with mental health problems.

Terra is working on a contract basis at the University of Bristol’s Graduate School of Education doing some report editing, researching and writing on a variety of projects.  Most notably, she’s helping to write and manage the production process of an upcoming book about educational priorities in small states of the commonwealth, which is due to complete by Easter.  She’s still on the hunt for funding to start her PhD next autumn, researching cultural impacts of recent education reforms in small states, Armenia in particular.

Anoush is growing leaps and bounds in both physical and cognitive senses.  She’s a 20 month old cuddly chatter box who is quickly learning the art of wielding her free will.  Here favourite phrases now are “happy day” and “you okay?”  She loves to help Mom with laundry and sweeping the floor.  She is very good at entertaining herself and loves playing with her dolls and stuffed animals, coloring and is still a big fan of reading and going to the library.

We have some big family changes on the horizon as well.  If you haven’t heard, we’re expecting a baby mid April.  Tera is 22 weeks pregnant and feeling well with a returned sense of energy and enjoying the second trimester.  Given the circumstances of Anoush’s birth, she’ll have a late-pregnancy scan around 37 weeks to be sure this baby doesn’t prefer the breech presentation, and provided a normal presentation, will be allowed a home birth with the midwifes.  Given our growing family situation, we’re also moving into a larger apartment after the first of the year.  We are still in Bristol and will actually be moving just five minutes up the road from our current place.  If you’d like our new address, let us know and we’ll gladly send it to you via email.