Going going gone..

Well, we've moved. In six inches of snow!

Can't keep blogging at 'motheringbythesea' anymore, sea must be at least an hour and a half away in a car! Plus life feels a bit different anyway so it's nice to star a new chapter. My new blog can be found here

Saying Goodbye .. part one of many

Well tonight I went to a tutorial and said goodbye. To my tutor who got me through my BFC training and is an all round cool person, to some other students I've known for quite a while, and to the general experience of meeting with these women to talk about breastfeeding, mothering, and life in general.

It's after midnight, very late for me, and I'm not even attempting to go to bed. Too much rattling through the old grey matter.

Moving

Well, we've been to see our new house again, it's almost all done, we've had the mortgage offer and our buyer is paying his cash tomorrow to his solicitor.

If the solicitors can tie it all up we're moving on 30th Jan. 3 weeks yesterday.

Maybe I'd better start to pack. I've done a teeny bit, time to get serious.

This is suddenly scarily real. I was sitting on J's sofa in my new house yesterday trying to envisage living there, we pootled into Huddersfield for the afternoon to check out the shops, and this morning we tried a church.

When I got back to Sunderland the phone rang almost immediately and it was our buyer wanting us to move out as soon as possible and telling me about handing his cash over.

Definitely time to think of a new blog title. No sea in Kirklees.

Fabulous Christmas

I've had a lovely rest over the last couple of days. It's been so nice to forget about moving for a little while! I was very under the weather on Christmas Day itself and slept all afternoon while Dad took the kids out. Sheer Bliss. Today we had more of the same while he took them to see the Boxing Day Dip, except I didn't sleep I did precisely nothing - a rare luxury. Oh except meander down to the kitchen to make a coffee!

Off to heat up the remains of yesterday's dinner.

Boeuf Bourguignon

Buying

We've had an offer accepted on a house. If it all goes through then I feel a bit better about moving, it's next to a field and country walks.

I'll have to change my blog to 'motheringbythefield'.

Just hope it goes through ok.

Mortgage has been a bit of a pain but it's looking like it's going through.

Moving

Well, it's official. There is now a 'sold' sign outside my house. After the 'For sale' had been there for precisely 24 hours. We sold to our first viewers, who arrived before we even knew we were officially on the market. They seem like lovely people, I feel happy to leave the place in their care. They had a lot of respect for the original features, which is the main thing. Now we just need it to go through ok!

Off away soon to look at lots and lots of houses in a row from Yeadon to Dewsbury.

I'll have to change the title of my blog.