Auskiwi I saw your quote in another thread and laughed so hard!!
I awoke at 2am...now it's 4 am and I still have not found my mind. We're in the last 30 days before the move and I'm TERRIFIED!, eeek
Many of you have been through this...
We just sold our houses...
Now selling the cars...
Dogs have begun their 30day out ritual --and one has a stinkin' worm they say can be treated easily but still scary...
We shipped our 40' container 45 days ago and have been living in a very empty un-homey house....
OH retired (and looking for projects but poor lost soul has no tools to do anything)
I'm still trying to work these last weeks, but am quitting my 18-year career to do something totally new!
We're going over budget on the cottage they're building on our land in NZ...
And...just because we didn't have enough adventure and stress, we decided to bring my husband's teenage daughter with us and are now dealing with custody battles in court this month...and not to mention the adjustment of a teenager in a very empty house.
That's the scary stuff...now if I could only be strong enough to remember this version in my head throughout the day as I tick through the list above:
We sold our houses! YAY!
We get cash from the cars we sell! YAY!
We can take our babies with us (the dogs, LOL)
We get to have all our comfortable, familiar household goods when we arrive!...but have also realized through this process just how much "stuff" you can live without!
OH gets pension for life! -- and will have many tools and projects on the other end! ha.
I get to pick what I want to do instead of what I had to dofor a living...
Our land is 2 acres and stunning views of the ocean...we would never be able to afford that here in the US and of course not see the ocean here in AZ
And...my step-daughter is an amazing young woman, with incredible resilience with an awesome opportunity in front of her with this move. She is a bright, sunny light in our lives right now so I'll take it one day at a time on learning the stepmom thing.
...thank you forumites. after typing all of that out, I got watery eyes and remembered why we are really doing this move. And I feel better ... Now it's 4:20 am and perhaps I can go back to bed now.
Thank you for having this forum!