Less than Two Weeks! Anxiety is setting in...

Moving day is getting closer and closer! Less than two weeks now until we leave the country indefinitely! It's sinking in now as anxiety begins to overtake the initial excitement...! I've had to remind myself a few times, now, why we're doing this when I feel homesick (yes, I'm already feeling homesick, even though we're still here!) or when I feel like I can't live without being close to certain family members or friends. I was never good at being far from people I love (heck, I'd cry and get homesick at sleep-overs as a kid!), so this is really going to test me and my scaredy-cat personality. But we only live once, right?! And I do really need an adventure! (Although the idea of my husband going alone when I chicken out at the last minute at the sight of my family in tears at the airport has crossed my mind...!)

We will be living out of three large and two smaller suitcases for the good part of the next month. And next week will be spent in a hotel. Not sure how the 17 month old will take that, but oh well...!

I've been lucky to have been introduced to some friends of a friend (thank YOU, Internet!) who has a toddler, so it's been great to ask a few questions and know that we have ONE contact over there! And if they have kids, that's even better! As an awkwardly shy and anti-social person, myself, I often worry about my own child inheriting some of my more unfortunate traits, and I cringe at the thought of him struggling to socialise the way I did all through my growing up (and even now). Hell, I was the awkward kid in school who'd stick to the teacher because I was so intimidated at the mere idea of associating with my peers. I don't want my own child to be that way; it makes being a child so much more difficult, and I want him to enjoy childhood to the max!

But I digress, I will miss our little house in Sydney. We've lived here for a good eight years, now (where did that time go?!), so it'll be sad and strange to say goodbye. 

We (well, my husband, really) has been dusting off a lot of stuff that we've had packed away for years. Feeling slightly purged knowing that he's filled our bins so quickly and easily with junk that's been accumulated.

Thank you to everyone who's made the effort to see us recently! We'll miss you! 

It's so strange to think that in two weeks' time, we will be residents of the USA! Never say never...

xoxo