Are we there yet?

Dropping Bean off at school today she said –mom, when are we moving to England already? Yep, I feel the same way Bean. The sad thing is, she has only known about our move for a week and it feels like we should be going already. My husband and I have been talking and preparing for this since September and I am ready to go. I still feel apprehensive about moving to another country, and I am going to miss our family terribly, don’t get me wrong. I am not anxious to leave because of those things, but I am anxious to get out of this transition period. I feel like our life is in limbo. I scheduled a storage container to be delivered in a few weeks so we can start loading the things we are not taking with us, and yesterday as Bean and I took down all the Christmas decorations we had two piles going –England Christmas and Storage Christmas. Of course, everything we didn’t put in the England Christmas pile, Bean tried to talk me into taking. But in England, our space will be limited. We will most likely rent a place that is smaller than our 2500 square foot house; it probably won’t have a basement or attic and from what I have found out, probably won’t have closets, or at least not big and spacious ones. And nothing that plugs in is making its way over there –we don’t want to deal with adapters and transformers just to plug in an artificial tree that is probably too large for the rooms we will have over there anyway. On another note, we got a call from the British Consulate yesterday, three of our visas are processed and ready to go –the hold-up was Gerbie. Apparently the under 5 crowd takes a bit longer to have a visa processed. They are scheduled to be delivered this week, so my husband is set to go on Sunday, now he has to start packing his suitcases with as much as he can take on his first trip. Fortunately, my mom is coming to stay with me for the first week after he leaves, I am hoping this will make the transition of daddy leaving easier for everyone. She is also going to be making the initial trip to England with us, to help us get settled, and this will be a big relief. And it will feel like old times when I ask her –mom, are we there yet?