There is a lot about to happen in our house, moving 250 miles being one of them! It's a bit of a shock and it's taken some serious talk between myself and hubby! It all started when he saw a job advertisement in a magazine and pondered about taking it, the catch? well that it is in Poole, Dorset.. a place where we normally go on holiday!! He ummed and ahhed over it for a while and I asked if he went for it, he said no, so we had a talk and he decided to give it a go.
So before our holiday he was asked to come for a interview, (que fast booking of a hotel room and time off work) That went fine and we then went on our holiday not knowing if it was a ok or not. After coming back we find out that he had passed the interview and they wanted him to do another task ( we were worried he would be asked to come back down again!) After doing another task via email he got a phone call a week or so later giving him the job. Que omg moment! I am so proud of my husband, he has tried to progress in his job in his current employment with no avail and basically been told he would have to look at other avenues if he wanted to move on.. and so he did!
His new job wouldn't want just anyone to have to move so far surely? he must have really impressed them, or else they would have gone for someone closer to home!
The hard part was telling family, having no family or friends down in Dorset it seems like a crazy decision but could we really refuse a better job? a better place to live and better environment for our eldest and her health? It is a scary prospect, I won't have that ability to pop round to my sisters, or have our parents drop in, or have the play group my youngest is use to. We won't have the dermatologist that has helped us for 6 years. Or the doctors that have finally started to help us.
But that is something we have to face, we have said we will try and come up at least once a month and people can come down to visit if they can/ when they can and there is the internet with Facebook and skype etc that we will try and use!
We went down to Dorset a few weeks ago and were able to express our interest in a rental property ( also ouch on their rental prices) and have got the go ahead after references etc have gone through! So it's all go here! We have just over two weeks before we move and so much to fit in, its silly. But i have the job of packing... oh fun! and trying to find eldest a school and then prob sorting out bills...that is never fun :( I have to see if the hospitals and specialists will transfer hospitals for us. or else we will have to wait for the referal process again -_-
There is no denying that it is going to be hard all round and my latest worry/ fear is that it won't fit onto the van! it's not like we can do several trips!!
Okay the time for panicking is not now!
This is a great new start for us all.
