I’m sitting in a motorway service station on the M4. Reading to be precise, on my way to Gatwick to deliver our car to the place where the people who are buying it will pick it up from. I’ll then pick up a hire car and return back to my temporary home. At least, it’s my temporary home for the next two nights, before we move to another temporary home. Welcome to limboland.
This is the place where you stay but you don’t live. Your bed is not your bed, your car is not your car. Everything feels slightly off kilter, and it’s hard to really relax.
In exactly one week’s time we will be stepping off the plane into our new lives. We’ve been waiting a year for this moment and yet, at the moment, it still feels as far away as Mars. Life feels suspended as we stutter through these last days, neither here nor there. The children, better at living in the present than us adults, seem to be coping well. My youngest did, however, feel the need to question granny yesterday about where she lived. At the moment, that’s a very good question!
And so I’ve finished my coffee and on to the next part of my journey. Hopefully next time I stop I’ll be at Gatwick, and another step closer to my final destination. Just one more week to go!
It’s a weird spot, for sure!
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We have been in limboland for some time. Fortunately friends and family have been very accommodating but I am ready to move now and am finding this final part of our between lives adventure is getting rather tiresome!
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Agree! I’m so looking forward to getting there now, although I am enjoying our last days in the UK.
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Try and enjoy because in one week it will be new place, new home..travel safely 🙂
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I know. It’s like having a baby. You know you should enjoy the last few days or weeks of relative peace but you just want to get there/give birth.. M
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Kids are such troopers! Glad they are doing well.
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Best of luck as the date approaches. I am certain you will love it! Kids always handle these things so much better. My daughter has much less anxiety about moving to Egypt than I do. She wants to get settled into her new bedroom while I worry about banks, Internet, work etc. Wonderful to be a kid again maybe?! Take care and hope it all works out really well.
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Thanks and good luck to you too. I’d say my two are split – the older one seems OK but the younger one is more worried. I don’t know really what’s going on underneath… I realise we may not know immediately how they are affected….
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True. It may come out later and when you least expect it… that tends to happen to me as well with our girls.
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Same. I’m experiencing a bit of ante-travel stress already. I was v rude to two old folks who were beeping at me in the car park of the services because I hadn’t quite worked out how to back up my ridiculously long and maddingly beepy hire car…if the old couple are reading this, I’m sorry…
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I am sure they should have understood… backing up any car for me is a challenge never mind a rental that is too big and long!
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I’m about to enter limboland. Move from my house into my parents for just over a week so luckily not too long living out my suitcase!
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It’s not much fun but something we just have to do 🙂 Hope you get spoiled by your parents at least. I have certainly enjoyed not having to do the cooking this week….
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Ahhh I remember it well, I don’t envy you right now Clara but soon it will be all a distant memory!!! I can’t believe it’s a week to go I’m so excited for you all!
Best of luck xx
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And you too! I’ll keep an eye out for your news x
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