Feeling nostalgic already

We watched the opening ceremonies of the Olympics last night. It was very emotional for me to watch my country hosting the Oympic games, and feeling a sense of pride to be Canadian, and knowing that we are leaving this country for a few years. It was quite a range of emotions that I was going through. We might be taking this girl out of Canada but you will never take Canada out of this girl!!

We met with the moving company yesterday to talk about the logistics of moving our things down to Australia. Apparently it is going to take at least 3 months so our plan is to move our stuff as soon as possible, live with the bare minimum here for a while so that when we get down there we don't have to wait too long to get organized. We also talked to our real estate agent today about listing the house which is very hard for me. I love this house, this neighbourhood, this street... if we were staying in Sudbury I would have no desire to live anywhere else. I am likely going to cry when we put the for sale sign on my lawn. But despite all the range of sad emotions that I am going through right now, I am also excited to get down there, meet my new neighbours, check out Brayden's new school, go to the beach, take a picture of Brayden and Dylan standing with a Kangaroo and put it on the wall beside a picture of them beside the big nickel! ha ha

Feeling official now!

Things are starting to feel very official now. I know, we signed the papers and officially accepted the job, have submitted our visa application and told our respective employers. But it really didn't feel real to me, until last night when our bank where Bryan set up an account for us, called to ask us some questions about the account. I don't know about you, but we get calls all the time from Royal Bank, TD bank, Scotiabank...mostly call centres asking us whether we are satisfied with our banking. You know you are officially moving when a bank in a whole other country starts calling you. Anyway, that is what made it real for me.

Bryan has had a very productive time down there. Scouted out some good neighbourhoods, a great school with partial french immersion so Brayden can continue on learning to parle en francais!! He even found out about a mom's group for me!

I have been busy making lists, what goes, what stays, who we need to call...all that fun stuff. Time is going to go by very quickly I think.