Belgium

We have now spent 5 days in Belgium so we could spend some family time before kicking off our new life in Sweden. It also means we can all travel up together.

It's not been too bad staying in a studio apartment, but I would not be able to do this for much longer 😂. Obviously with us all being in the one room, we all go to sleep at the same time including Skye and Lance. So there's been no down time. However it's been so nice to have a taste of a "normal" life. Having an extra pair of hands every evening and night has been so nice. I could really get used to that.
I will probably have to wait another few months for that to happen though, but it's definitely one of the goals.

I'm so excited to go to Sweden tomorrow and move into our new home. I can't wait for Lance to be reunited with his toys, teddies and other things that reminds him of home. He's been such a wee trooper through all of this and I just hope we will settle in quickly and feel at home.

I can definitely see its getting to him some days. The way he's acting up and gets angry for no reason. I just try to keep communicating with him and explain what's going on. Sometimes it helps, other times it's just a matter of riding out the storm.

Skye is growing so fast now. I just realised that she's almost grown a hole size in the last 3 weeks. She's also almost sitting unaided. I can't believe she'll be 5 months soon.

It might be busy times but at least we are together.

Xx

It is time 🔑

Tomorrow I'm handing the keys over to the new owner of the house. It's strange knowing that someone else is going to make it their home and probably going to make a lot of changes to it. We will never set foot in the house that was our home again. It's crazy how attached you get to the place you live in. But when I look back I realise it was ones a new, strange and unfamiliar place to us and I know we can make any place our home.

Our things arrived in Sweden and it's all waiting for us to come and reunite with it. We now have a house to rent until we find a house we want to buy. It's so nice knowing that we have somewhere to land and settle in. It was a huge weight lifted of my shoulders when I got the call. I am very excited about it and I honestly can't wait to see it.

This must be what bittersweet feels like for real. It's hard saying goodbye and at the same time look forward to what's to come. Everyone who knows me knows that I don't do goodbyes, only see you laters. Because we will and we fully intend to visit as much as we can. Relationships are what you make them. If there's something I've learned from moving around and living far away from friends and family is that it's not about quantity it's all about the quality and how you treasure and treat your relationships with people whether it be family or friends.

So tomorrow we close the door, literally, to that chapter of our lives and move forward.

Xx

The 7 Ps

Life is about to change! We are now spending our last night in our first house and will move out tomorrow. In 5 days time we'll be loading our furniture and boxes of stuff onto a trailer. A week later we will be catching our flight to go start our new chapter.

It's scary, exciting, freeing and stressful. Not knowing what the next year, month or week will bring is so much scarier when you have kids. I'm excited to be able to start fresh and we can build the life we want together and hopefully grow even closer as a family.

In the next few days it's all about the 7 Ps (proper prior preparation prevents pish poor performance). Every hour has an agenda and it's crunch time to get everything packed, binned or sold and the house emptied. Thankfully we have amazing family who are helping out with babysitting so I can hopefully get it all done.

I've been trying to prepare Lance for what is about to happen. Sometimes it seems like he's taking it all in and understands and other times he looks very confused. But hopefully we can take it step by step and tomorrow he will be saying goodbye to the house and I won't bring him back if I can avoid it. I think it would be hard for him to see the house empty but it might just be me.

I'm just sitting on the couch taking it all in, feeling a bit sad to leave our lovely home. But I know we are doing the right thing taking a chance in life. Otherwise we would always wonder what could've been.

Xx