We had a nice surprise last week when we found out that Tim's visit back to MN lasted another 6 days! Everyone was so excited to see him. The second week of his stay he was needed at a full schedule of meetings at Best Buy HQ in Richfield instead of home playing with us - but we still were glad to have him around. There are only two things that are good about him leaving today: less clothes and gear in the overstuffed house and we are that much closer to being done with this transition period.
I booked our flights to London two days ago. Because Tim was here an extra week he will no longer be able to come back to get us. That means beloved Noni is going to assist me on the plane with the two crazy monkeys. Thank goodness! I have always dreaded the day we brought our sweet girls on a plane, but and 8 1/2 flight is no way to break them in - especially if it was only with me!!
So we will be leaving MSP on the evening of the 27th, arriving the morning of the 28th and head straight to a hotel in Chiswick - just near our house. The lease on our house doesn't begin until the 1st (Sunday) - but our shipment of furniture won't be able to arrive until Monday. I am hoping to be moved in enough to spend the night in our house on Tuesday, March 2nd! Cross your finger!
In the meantime, the girls have settled down. They are generally sleeping better and behaving more like normal. We definitely had a crazy first couple of weeks with the flu, ear infections, and other exciting kid issues like pull-ups leaking every night, etc. Most of these things have thankfully been remedied. Hopefully we are done with the trama and drama until the actual move.
One other bright spot is that we are able to transfer our local US phone number to the UK - so all our rellies and friends can just make a local call (though remember the +6 hour time change!). We will also have an "imaginary" UK phone number so our new friends and neighbors can also call us locally! We will hope this will make it much easier for us to stay in touch.
Tim is lonely when he is in London all alone - pop him an email if you get a chance! bbytimothy@yahoo.com