We are emigrating!

Well, as you all know by now Geoff, Thomas, Charlotte and I are moving to Austin, Texas in January 2008. Its not really sunk in yet and I keep having up days (excited about the future!), and down days (scared about the whole huge prospect of emigrating!). We have talked about whether we will come back to England, and have come to the conclusion that we will see how we feel in a couple of years. It will be best to make the big decision when the kids are 4 - which is the summer just before they start school - and it gives us a good long chance to really see what life is like out there (although Geoff lived there for five years before he met me so he already has a good idea and is very excited!)

At the moment I'm just trying to get my head around leaving. I was terrified of telling my family and luckily my Mum and Dad have both been fine about it. My brother Pete is taking it quite hard tho, but at least he says he will come and visit us.

This Blog will be a good way to keep in touch with the many people that I love and will miss (admittedly I DID steal the idea from Selina, who has recently moved to Thailand!) and I will be expecting everyone here to also keep in touch with regular emails and posts from 'sunny' England. In saying that I'm sure I will miss the weather here when its constantly baking in the middle of July and everyone in Austin is hibernating indoors with their air conditioning!