Here We Go

The day after Thanksgiving Tim accepted the job and so its official! Tim and I will be making one more trip to London before we actually move to choose a house. We'll be going the first week in January and then I'll come home to get the house packed up. Tim will have to get to work before we can actually move, so he'll be "commuting" for about a month. I have to admit, now that it is decided that we are going, I'd like to just get there and skip all the preparation stuff. I'd like to jump from Sophie's birthday to March or April when we will finally be getting settled in a real house... no more corporate housing and rental furniture :).

Decision Time

It looks like we will be going to London sometime after the start of 2009. Tim and I are excited and also nervous. Nothing is set in stone yet as the negotiations are still going on and we are also still finding out important information - though very little is what we would consider a "deal-breaker". Now comes the real work for me:
figuring out how to rent the house (having it clean at all times for rental agents and potential renters)
what to bring
get all the paperwork done (passports, everything needed for passports)
thinking of things we haven't thought of
new budgeting
organizing the house to get it packed
get rid of untold amount of stuff

Initial Trip

Tim and I are leaving in about a week and half for London. The girls are staying with Noni and Papa. We are excited to learn more about the job, company and city. Tim has never been to London and I haven't been there in about 20 years (yikes - that makes me sound OLD!). I will have some freetime, Tim will spend much of the time at the CPW headquarters and we will both spend some time with a relocation company looking at schools and houses. We are getting more excited about the possibility, so hopefully BBE has some good news for us once we arrive.