An emotional time ahead

I am an emotional wreck now. Crying over the simplest things.

Yesterday we had a photo shoot with Venture.

It was all four of us and my mum and stepdad. We did the shower, hair wash, blow dry, straighten, make up etc thing. Took all morning to preen ourselves and then an hour for the shoot. £3.50 or parking too !!

Get home to a phone call 'unfortunately we've lost all of the photos as there were problems with the memory card, we can do it again tomorrow morning at 9.30am ! I sobbed my heart out all day whilst I worked out if it was worth going through it all again. How stupid is that ? It's only photos.

So, today, we were all up at 7am and went through the whole process again. I don't think the photos will have the same feeling as we've already done it once and they are very expensive, but at least we were able to invite my dad so we had a full house. Just got the row with hubby on Saturday to go as he thinks the pictures are over priced !!

I'm still not sleeping, last night being the worst - I watched every minute ticking by. I really need some sleep.

The final goodbyes are starting to happen. My dad this morning and some friends tonight. Tallulah's friend bawled her heart out which caught me unawares. I had thought that they were too young to really understand what migrating really meant so I wasn't expecting it at all. My friend's bottom lip then started so they dashed out the door fast without a major goodbye. We hadn't even been friends for all that long but something clicked and we got on great.

Another friend is having the girls a lot this last week so I can get on with packing. We're already over 80kg and not even touched half the stuff we need to take - I have no idea how it's all going to fit into the hire car but we'll give it a damn good go.

It's starting to hit home now what we're doing. A lottery win would help a lot as we could buy a house then but with only two draws left before we go I can't see it happening !

12:04 - Mon 21 August 2006

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this is the hard bit! its really sad saying goodbye - but Venture piccies are amazing, we have some too, and they'll give you a great memory of your last few days back in the UK

islandmom - 02:25 - Mon 21 August 2006