Today we showed 2 prospective tennant's around our home. OK, we don't actually own the property but we have lived here for a while now and I really do class it as my home. I have a slightly emotional attachment here - Tasmin and Ruben came home here and it means leaving their lovely Zeddy and Rhubarb nursery and that makes me sad. We spent so much time on that room and thank's to Grandad had a really beautiful place for them to sleep.
Mum and Dad are down visiting at the moment and Cerys is staying overnight in the caravan, which is great for her. She loves spending time with Grandma and Grandad and even though they have lived over 500 miles away for many year's now, Cerys remains very close to them. I hope that they manage to visit us lot's in the US and form the same sort of bond with Tasmin and Ruben.
We have also had a delivery of more boxes today, so that we can try and pack a few more things away in anticipation of Monday. Our dining room really does give a new meaning to the term "Chinese Laundry"!! There are clothes EVERYWHERE. Charity piles, relative and friends piles, chucking pile, Shipping pile and of course the 1st month to take with us pile!
We are out tomorrow night enjoying some farewell drinks with friends. Even writing this down seems slightly weird - I wonder if my brain will ever engage and accept that it's body really is moving thousands of miles away!! Watch this space!!
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Teabags!!
I have just received a delivery of 1600 PG tip teabags from tesco amongst other things. Even the delivery man said "someone likes their tea!" when he dropped them off. I then felt compelled to explain they were being exported to the US, to which he thought he would be funny and ask "so what happens when you run out?", to which i let him know that by the time I drink 1600 cups of tea, I would hope that some family or friends would be planning visit to take me more!
Have just packed them away, along with half a dozen packs of fair trade coffee, baby wipes (they seem so expensive overthere!), baby bath, baby body wash, shampoo and deodorants! By my crazy ordering, you would think that they don't shower or keep themselves clean in the US but I guess I just like what we are used too!
We have contacted a school in Monrovia, which Cerys will hopefully get into. The principle has either an Irish or a Scottish surname, so it must be a good place - ha ha! The school day starts from 8am and ends at 2.55pm and on a wednesday, the children are released at 1pm. Beginning to have nightmares about how I will manage to get myself and 3 children out of the house by 7.30am - man, I only get up at that time now. Think I may have to go to bed at 9pm every night at this rate!
All 3 children had vaccinations yesterday - Tasmin and Ruben finally had their 3 dose of dip/tet/whoop and polio and the Men C and Cerys finally had the MMR and dip/tet booster. The nurse clearly dissaproved that it had taken 7 years to get Cerys MMR'd and again I found myself explaining that it wasn't the injection I disagreed with, merely the fact that babies seemed too small to have all the virus' whirring around in their system. All 3 were so very brave, especially Cery who didn't even flinch! Little did nursey know that she only had it because the US school needs her to have it! I have time on my side for Tasmin and Ruben.
Off to do some more packing and sorting - oh the joy's!
Have just packed them away, along with half a dozen packs of fair trade coffee, baby wipes (they seem so expensive overthere!), baby bath, baby body wash, shampoo and deodorants! By my crazy ordering, you would think that they don't shower or keep themselves clean in the US but I guess I just like what we are used too!
We have contacted a school in Monrovia, which Cerys will hopefully get into. The principle has either an Irish or a Scottish surname, so it must be a good place - ha ha! The school day starts from 8am and ends at 2.55pm and on a wednesday, the children are released at 1pm. Beginning to have nightmares about how I will manage to get myself and 3 children out of the house by 7.30am - man, I only get up at that time now. Think I may have to go to bed at 9pm every night at this rate!
All 3 children had vaccinations yesterday - Tasmin and Ruben finally had their 3 dose of dip/tet/whoop and polio and the Men C and Cerys finally had the MMR and dip/tet booster. The nurse clearly dissaproved that it had taken 7 years to get Cerys MMR'd and again I found myself explaining that it wasn't the injection I disagreed with, merely the fact that babies seemed too small to have all the virus' whirring around in their system. All 3 were so very brave, especially Cery who didn't even flinch! Little did nursey know that she only had it because the US school needs her to have it! I have time on my side for Tasmin and Ruben.
Off to do some more packing and sorting - oh the joy's!
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Welcome!
Hello to everyone reading this!
We have set up this blog so that any family and friends can keep up to date with our little adventure!
Background!
We have lived in Pinner, Middlesex for the last 2 years although we have been in this area for 5 years. Rufus was born and brought up in Harrow and I was born in Inverness and brought up in Ross-shire and Aberdeenshire.
Rufus works in London as a solicitor and is being transferred to work in the Los Angeles Office. I am, by profession, a Paediatric Audiologist although I have now officially "retired" in order to raise our fabulous three children.
So, it's goodbye UK, Hello Los Angeles!!
3 weeks Today!!
OMG! How scarey is that? We are very lucky, in that the company who is relocating us, will do the majority of packing for us, especially the valuable ornaments, as if they break them, they are fully insured, but hopefully these people will be a bit less, well, clumsy than me!!
However, I still need to catch up on clothes washing - Mount Everest is beginning to be a normal feature of our utility room. I blame the babies! I also need to streamline the contents, so that we don't end up carting junk from one side of the pond to another! This in itself is a huge task, made difficult further by two little rug rats climbing at your knee constantly. Oh Well - the joy's of twins, I guess!
We have found a beautiful home which we can move to - it's in a city called Monrovia, 15 miles from downtown LA. It's much smaller than some of the communities over theer and it means i can actually walk places. I don't fancy driving on the other side of the road just yet. The house is fabulous, everything I could possibly ask for and I will try and post some pictures here later.
We have set up this blog so that any family and friends can keep up to date with our little adventure!
Background!
We have lived in Pinner, Middlesex for the last 2 years although we have been in this area for 5 years. Rufus was born and brought up in Harrow and I was born in Inverness and brought up in Ross-shire and Aberdeenshire.
Rufus works in London as a solicitor and is being transferred to work in the Los Angeles Office. I am, by profession, a Paediatric Audiologist although I have now officially "retired" in order to raise our fabulous three children.
So, it's goodbye UK, Hello Los Angeles!!
3 weeks Today!!
OMG! How scarey is that? We are very lucky, in that the company who is relocating us, will do the majority of packing for us, especially the valuable ornaments, as if they break them, they are fully insured, but hopefully these people will be a bit less, well, clumsy than me!!
However, I still need to catch up on clothes washing - Mount Everest is beginning to be a normal feature of our utility room. I blame the babies! I also need to streamline the contents, so that we don't end up carting junk from one side of the pond to another! This in itself is a huge task, made difficult further by two little rug rats climbing at your knee constantly. Oh Well - the joy's of twins, I guess!
We have found a beautiful home which we can move to - it's in a city called Monrovia, 15 miles from downtown LA. It's much smaller than some of the communities over theer and it means i can actually walk places. I don't fancy driving on the other side of the road just yet. The house is fabulous, everything I could possibly ask for and I will try and post some pictures here later.
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