As many of you know my husband is in the air force. In March of 2012 we found out we had orders to move to England. I was beyond scared but also excited. The year went by quick and on December 2 my family boarded an airplane and took an 8 hour flight to London. We live a couple hours north of London now and absolutely love it. Our adventure here has been anything but easy but we've made it and we will continue to make it.
A1, A2, A3, & A4 have all adjusted well but man that first week we were here was hard. Where we live now is about 5 hours ahead of what we are used to. We were up at all sorts of the night and slept at the oddest times. The thing that made us finally switch to normal times was enrolling A1 in school. A couple days after we arrived here we went house hunting. Talk about an awesome experience. We looked at 10 houses. Some were WAY to small for us, some were shaped so funny, some were too much money and then there was the perfect house for us. It was a 4 bedroom with a study plus an extra "spare" room off the sunroom. We put an offer on the house to rent it and the landlord accepted it. See here in England they negotiate the rent so we were able to talk him down to what we could afford. It wasn't an easy ride moving into the house but we moved in on December 20. We spent 3 nights in the house living on air mattresses and having little to no things. On December 23 all of our stuff arrived, it was one of the best days of my life!!! I never thought I would be so happy to see my bed. Christmas and new years came and went, I think we both missed being back in Abilene with our "family" it was the first year in 3 years we hadn't done a new years party with our friends.
After Christmas break which was just last week I enrolled A2 into a British school, so car she loves it. She goes everyday and always comes home with a huge smile. A3 is old enough to go to nursery here for 15 hours free. We send him 3 days a week so its a good break for him and gives me to spend time with A4. I also have the opportunity to help out in classrooms now. Ive never been able to do that until now and I am so excited I'm able to be apart of that part of the kids life.
On Friday morning of this week R left to go help guard a helicopter crash that happened. We have no idea how long he will be gone. I was very upset at first but its the life of the military. I'm still getting used to living in a new country and now I get to take is head on. Ive met some very kind woman who have offered to help me get used to it around here. I'm hoping I pick it up quickly and I can start shopping locally to start back to making our own stuff!!! I defiantly miss being in the kitchen!
This move to a new country has been anything but easy. We have survived and we will continue to push through anything that is thrown at us. I'm hoping to start blogging more on our adventures that we take and the new things that we learn here :)
