These are emotional days....

There are boxes EVERYWHERE in my house.

Crazy.

Freaky.

Emotional.

My house will be empty in 5 days.

All of our possessions in someone else's hands.

The great news....

we may have found our new home!!

It's beautiful.

And about as big as our first house!!

Willem de Nobelaerlaan 59.

Voorburg, Netherlands.

Wow.

We still have to sign the contract and iron out the details

so no photos yet ;)

And I'm FREAKING OUT  'cause Holland is 

9 HOURS AHEAD

and we have to act fast

and I don't want anyone to scoop 

what would be an amazing house

out from under us.

I think I actually feel an ulcer developing....

Overwhelmed....to say the least

I am feeling completely overwhelmed.

I have to pack this week.

BIG TIME.

it's seriously happening.

The moving company is coming on the 5th to pack our kitchen and

our breakables (picture frames, mirrors, decor)

and we have to have everything else ready to go.

All of our possessions leave this house

 on DEC. 6th!!

We will have a couple of suitcases each, some food left in the fridge,

the iPad and our phones

and each other.

It's kind of liberating.

And to be perfectly honest, there isn't anything that we have sold 

that we are really missing.

Which speaks volumes to how much CRAP we accumulate

that we really don't need.

We are settling on a property in Holland this week.

We'll have a new address.

I feel a little lump in my throat as I type.

And think about the HUGE decision we are making.

A little scary....

but SO EXCITING!

You will have to read this blog in baby steps

so that I don't lose it.

the countdown is on.....

Yesterday marked our "2 months left in Canada" point.

Whoa.

That seems SO CRAZY to say out loud!

What's even crazier, is that we are signing our moving contract on Monday.

...and they pack us up the FIRST WEEK IN DECEMBER!!

(However, our stuff will arrive in Holland 1 month later.)

That's less than ONE MONTH!!!

Double whoa.

Things are going quite smoothly.

My sister told me I sounded quite calm...really?!

Actually, I do feel pretty good.  We are trying to do a little something

for the move every day, and that is helping keep the stress level down.

We have sold a bunch of stuff on Kijiji.

We are having the BIG moving sale this weekend and we are hoping

to get rid of a lot of the big things....

55" TV, dining table & chairs, china cabinet,

couch, chairs, lamps.

CAR!!

Wish us luck :)

The days seem to be flying by.

My friend M made a good point the other day when she said we were 

running out of weekends to get together.

It made me a little sad.

Honestly, that's going to be the hardest part.

Everyone I'm close to is going to be so far away :(

I'm trying not to think about it too much.

 Or dwell on the size of my future phone bill.