Moving AGAIN!!!

[gbsmith]

Well here we go again I'm moving house (and country) for the don't know how manyith time.
I'm going home back to Scotland to live near my mum and we've got a lovely big new house we're moving to so in some ways I'm quite excited but I'm dreading the sorting and the packing and the unpacking and the making new friends and getting the kids settled in new schools and of course leaving my old friends.
We've been living in the place we are now for just over two years and I've finally built up a good circle of friends one really close friend in particular that i see every weekday and we spend quite a lot of time together - I'm so sad about leaving her.
My hubby doesn't seem to understand and keeps asking me why I'm not really excited, I've tried to explain it to him but I'm not sure he's really listening. I do want to move and there are a lot of positives, it's just the negatives are clouding everything right now and i just want to hide away in my bed!!

[lissaharrison]

I've moved three times in the last three years after living in the same place for the previous 28 years. It's not fun, I hate the packing and the unpacking, I am not moving again!
On the upside you are coming home I couldn't imagine ever leaving, I swear I feel an jolt whenever we cross the border to visit my husbands family (he's from Newcastle).
Remember everything is a mess when you are moving including your emotions, it's never fun and exciting it's a horrible chore. you worry about everything. Just remember it will soon be over, I don't know where you are now but remember you can visit your friend there is text,e-mail,phone,skype and visit when you can. I thought my heart would break moving away from my sister but we survived and talk frequently, if you are that close it wont change your relationship just the geography.

[gbsmith]

Thanks lissa, nice to hear from a fellow Scot - you're right about the jolt going across the border and the sheer elation when you cross back, something in the blood I think lol!!

Hopefully as it's a work move we'll be getting help with the packing - not the unpacking though.

I just never thought I would be going home, I'd gotten used to living away and actually really want to go further - we were offered an opertunity to move to Australia at the start of the year but it unfortunatley all fell through - i think some of my lack of excitment well be mixed in with the dissapointment of returning to the cold and rain instead of heading off to the sunshine!

[gbsmith]

UPDATE - if anyone is interseted, the Australian opertunity has just opened up again and now we're totally confused - don't know what to do - we want Australia, it's our dream but everything is in place for Scotland - bugger bugger bugger - is basically the emotion we're feeling right now!!!
If only this could have happened 2 months ago then we would have been fine but there was just no hint, so confused!!!

[lissaharrison]

Well if you want Australia and it is a definite thing well you just have to go with your dream. So go to Australia, what more can I say but....Lang may yer lum reek

[gbsmith]

Aye we may well go awa tae bide awa!!!

Thanks Lissa x