Right on track

The last few days, we have made a lot of progress. Hubby is confirmed in a flat for his temporary housing and a house hunting expedition is being set up for when he gets there. We have an offer for his car, and have talked to a realtor about selling our house. If you read my last post about the visa – we were going to try to party crash the biometrics center on Friday, but we decided against it, worried about being turned away by security. How much difference could one business day really make? It just didn’t seem worth it to us. We are scheduled for Monday and will keep the appointment. Even more progress –our expat friend has called the headmaster at the school we are looking at for Bean, and they said they most likely will have an opening in March/April for her. Also on that note, we told our current school the news. Their reactions were amazing –wow, England, that is going to be great –how exciting. As I listened to them, I realized yes it is amazing. There is still a part of me that is just so nervous about the whole thing, and worried about all the logistics and items on the to-do list that I forget that this is going to (hopefully!) be a great experience. Also, the owner of the school asked if Bean would be able to send pictures and emails to her friends –as a learning experience for them. I think Bean will really enjoy that! We just gave her a camera and she has been posing her sister by the Christmas tree every chance she gets and even took some pictures of the newly fallen snow this morning. So I think she will really relish the opportunity to keep in touch with her friends in that way. I also had a preliminary conversation with Bean about the move and it went fairly well. I started by saying daddy would be going to England for work after Gerbie’s b-day party (which is Jan 2) and would be gone for a few weeks. She was super upset about this. Then, I said –what if we all move to go be with him, so we don’t have to be apart for very long? She just looked at me and with big eyes said –move to England??? Yep, what if we move all of our stuff to be with him? I could tell she was thinking about this, and then she said –can I take my toys? I reassured her that yes, she could take her toys. All was fine again. She will have daddy and toys –what more is there? I am not sure she totally gets it yet, but I have a few weeks to keep discussing with her and preparing her. I didn’t want to get in depth about what this really means all at once. There is still time for all that to sink in. Now we just have the huge task of getting the house ready to be on the market, decide what goes with us, what goes to storage, ahhh yes, here comes that stressed feeling again.