Journey to my new home

Sitting in my empty house.

Thinking of all the things we have sold.

Praying that we made the right decision.

BREATH!!!

Well, my house is now pretty completely empty, everything sold except for a few odds and ends and, of course, our cars.  We have booked our tickets for August 30th and sprung for the celeberatory buisness class tickets.  Now I am stressed, the excitement is still there, but I am thinking about, what if I end up not liking it.  I mean I have visited Europe lots and I have been to The Netherlands on several occasions, but what if living there isn't all I think it will be??  What if we can't find work?  What if we can't find a nice place to live?  So many questions, and I can't answer any of them now, we have to wait and see and try to stay positive!

 We have been traveling around Eastern Canada for the last several weeks visiting our family and friends here....kinda like a goodbye tour...weather has been horrible.  So, the fact that we are not home, it just doesn't seem real that when we walk back in there on Tuesday, it will be empty for the most part.  I have mixed emotions:  relief of selling the house and the things, apprehension of all the work that still needs to be done, I am sad to leave a beautiful home and I have stress about the actual move.  We have boxes to ship over and lots of luggage still to pack.  We brought the bulk of it to my family and friends, and sold a lot in this major garage/moving sale that we had. 

I hope to keep my blog more updated in the coming weeks, we have just been  busy traveling and stuff like that.  When I get back home I will post some picks of some places that we have just been to!

It has been a while since I have posted anything, just wanted to update that my house was sold last week, conditionally, which means we now have to wait until the house inspection and financing goes through.  We will have a firm answer tomorrow or at the very latest Tuesday.  Once everything is firm, then we can really (really!)  pack up our stuff!  After things are packed we are renting a moving truck that we will fill and bring the remaining stuff that we haven't sold out east to my folks...and at the same time have some time to spend with my Mom and Dad! 

As of now, my date to leave is still somewere around September first and my husband's date is still undecided, probably, if anything, earlier than me!

Anyway, here is to filling those freakin' boxes!

Okay, I have stuff to sell, big stuff, like a car and a piano (I am a professional pianist).  I have had the piano for sale for some time, but nobody seems to be interested, no surprise.  I guess I shouldn't panic too much since I probably can find somewhere to store it, but I would like to be rid of it before I leave... ya know?  As for my car, well it is only two years old and has over 95,000 km on it (I commute) and we tried to call a few dealers today to see if they would buy it off of us, and even though it is a highly desirable used car (2007 fit) the milage is standing in our way...so *enter exaggerated deep sigh*

I am still kind of overwhelmed by this collossal move and I am starting to regret taking a gig in August, since my husband has decided to mover at the beggining of August and I will follow in September, after I am done with work...I wish we were leaving together.  I am trying to remember why we are doing this right now...I mean, we can't turn back now, since my husband has left his job, but I am trying to remember the motivating and exciting feeling that I had when we first decided that this move would be the best thing for us to do...it is all still inside me somewhere, but where?

 So far I have a few boxes packed, my clothes sorted out (I gave bags and bags of it to good will), I have packed a suitcase and a half, we have checked and found a cargo company to take our stuff, we are making lists of what goes where and to whom....so all this in the past couple of days (which is why I have been a little absent from the Blog). 

 Okay, now for a bubble bath and some light reading...I think I will hit the hay early tonight!! 

Boxes!!

Here it is, the start of it, we bought boxes, now to fill them!!  I feel a little paralyzed, overwhelmed by the task at hand. I need to get moving, but somehow, I just seem to sty put.  Well, here is to hoping I can get my lazy ass off of the couch!!

Today is day one of our journey to the Netherlands!

 So, this is day one of our preparations to get going to go to The Netherlands.  My husband is leaving in August, and I finish work at the end of August, so I will be joining him later.  My dog is coming too, but I think I will be sending her a long ahead with my hubby, she has never flown before, and I am pretty sure I am going to be nervous about it, so it is better if Jacob takes her. 

Now, my husband is dutch, so his family and many of his friends are in The Netherlands already, so living there won't be too strange for us, since he's lived there for 36 years of his life and he speaks the language and knows how things work.  So, I guess what is left to do is get rid of my stuff, make lists of what we are bringing and what will be left behind and things like that.  Lots of organizing to do!!!

The object of this blog is to document the collossal move that we are making, a move from the Greater Toronto Area to The Netherlands.  We have been preparing for a while, but today really marks day 1 of actual activity.  We plan to be all settled up on moved on by September 1st!